Small compartmentalized projects and tickets with autonomy and clear responsibility by the specific devs.

Limit all the status options in the workflows as much as possible. The biggest chaos to me always was when each team decided to make marginal changes to their status workflows, and then it's impossible to consolidate.

If you have the benefit of working on smaller, autonomous team, I like Basecamp much more. It visualizes progress better, and seems less prone to micromanaget of every little task.