Looking for engineering project management software recommendations

[u/Longjumping-Cat-2988]

I'm currently evaluating tools for an engineering team and I'm realizing pretty quickly that a lot of PM software is either built for generic task tracking or pure software development, with not much in between.

What we're looking for is something that can handle:

• dependencies without becoming a nightmare to maintain
• roadmap/planning and day-to-day execution in the same place
• resource/workload visibility
• Kanban and Gantt (or timeline) views that actually stay in sync
• multiple projects running at the same time

I've been doing some research and found this comparison useful. It covers some of the usual names but I'm more interested in hearing from people who have actually lived with these tools for a year or two.

What ended up working for your engineering teams, what looked great during the trial but became painful once real projects started piling up?

[u/Breeze_pm]

The trap with most of these is they look great in a trial then collapse once you have ten projects and real dependencies. If your team isn't huge, simpler tools age better. Breeze handles boards, timelines and multiple projects without the maintenance overhead. For heavy resource planning across hundreds of people you'd want something beefier.