Ist there any better alternative suite to the Atlassian stuff?

Curious too. I am using a trial of Axosoft. Have used the atlassian stuff in the past as well as Team Foundation. There is also LeanKit for Kanban or scrum. Some devs like trello. I like something that is useful for the devs but provide enough feedback so velocity, bugs.. highly visible. Project managers like atlassian so they can track projects and budgets. I too am looking for something that is useful but for a team of two, product owner and Dev.

Would like to know the same

I use Basecamp too. It works for communication among devs but we need to provide metrics for the team and management. I need help with this too.