🛠️ The defining characteristic of a good workflow tool

As mentioned in the previous post, modern workflow tools provide efficient access to information, collaboration, and automation.

The real power is when these three things come together in one environment. The defining characteristic of a good workflow tool is ... integration.

There are powerful project board tools like Jira or Trello. There are great communication tools like Discourse, Discord, Slack, and Email. There are popular code review tools like Gerrit. But good things happen when you bring all these things together into one workflow tool, which I will call Git*: Github, Gitlab, Gitea, or Forgejo. Then everything has context, and relationships between different types of information are easy to create. Integration in a tool is a powerful thing where the overall value is much greater than the sum of the individual features.