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Openproject: Open-source project management software
- andrewl 6y agoMy company is evaluating Open Project, among other solutions. We're outgrowing our current system, and also beginning to suspect the developers aren't interested in moving it forward, or even properly maintaining it. We like that Open Project is open source. We think building as much as possible on open source will, in the long term, be a win. We also have a lot of Ruby knowledge in house, so we could contribute to it ourselves. What has everybody's experience been?
- m1sta_ 6y agoIt is missing a resource management module. This is a huge omission. Other than that it's decent.
- alceta 6y agoCore contributor of OpenProject Here, this ist an Epic that ist high up in the roadmap but due to its complexity has been pushed out the past two releases. This is something where we know it's painfully missing and is being planned and actively worked on.
- smt88 6y ago> beginning to suspect the developers aren't interested in moving it forward, or even properly maintaining it This will be true of all systems. Devs hate adding comments, writing documentation, maintaining tasks/wikis/etc., and everything else that we need them to do. Some people try to make them track their time, which I think is both pointless and unlikely to happen. The only solution to this is to move it out of the "discipline" column and into the "process" column. For example, I set up git hooks so that a commit will be rejected unless it's tagged with an issue number. And then I have another rule that says that issues aren't accepted unless they have the important fields filled out ("steps to reproduce" for a bug, "user story" for a feature). It's not perfect, but it definitely creates better habits overall.
- andrewl 6y agoI wasn't clear. I'm describing the developers of the project management system we now use. They announced new scheduling features over a year ago, and nothing has happened. And there have been a lot of slowdowns and crashes, which they have been slow to fix. Our developers like tools that support their processes. They just want something that works, and is under active development.
- alceta 6y agoCore maintainer of OpenProject here. We do welcome all outside contributions, but please note that while the application relies heavily on Ruby/Rails for backend, API and rendering, a large portion is also Angular/Typescript. This will sometimes make it harder for developers to start working with OpenProject since for many topics, you will need both (e.g., API changes and frontend work). Especially so since the application has evolved for more than 10 years. We recently did work on a "big picture" documentation for new developers to understand some of the concepts at play: https://docs.openproject.org/development/concepts/ https://docs.openproject.org/development/concepts/
- zxspectrum1982 6y agoI'd suggest you also consider ProjeQtor. It's astonishingly feature rich and at the same time, very lightweight resource-wise (PHP + MySQL and you are good to go). https://www.projeqtor.org/en/ https://www.projeqtor.org/en/
- ivanche 6y agoIf it's not a secret, which system do you currently use?
- Osiris 6y agoMy company is looking to replace JIRA. We use Kanban. Has anyone had experience with this or other products that you'd recommend for a Kanban workflow?
- vishnumohandas 6y agoTrello[1]? [1]: https://trello.com https://trello.com
- edoceo 6y agoI'm currently moving my Trello/Kanban stuff in Gitlab. Seems to be going OK so far. And I can make easy add-on via API
- Guest42 6y agoI think people are skeptical of atlassian after their cloud migration announcement
- jimnotgym 6y agoPlanner in MS Office It is basic, but has an API and a sort of automation scripting engine and is fully integrated into Teams.
- Guest42 6y agoHaven't heard of that but looks very useful and integrated into everything else they do.
- Meph504 6y agoIf you have office 365 its worth looking at because its included with the subscription. They are going through some internal changes on the planner product, as they are sort of merging it with their "TODO." app with it also.
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- rodolphoarruda 6y agoGreat product. I think I used it back in 2005 for the first time.I'm glad to see it has been modernized with agile artifacts. Cool.
- Reelin 6y agoTheir website certainly doesn't make it easy to locate the source code (https://github.com/opf/openproject https://github.com/opf/openproject) or make it clear what license it's under (GPLv3). I had to navigate all the way to the manual installation guide to find a link to the GitHub. It also isn't readily clear what the feature difference is between the community and enterprise editions. A feature matrix would be welcome here. It does look like a really useful piece of software though.
- nattaylor 6y agoI found it on https://www.openproject.org/pricing/ https://www.openproject.org/pricing/ under Feature Comparison
- Reelin 6y agoWow that's actually an impressively detailed breakdown that managed to address every single question I had. (I feel dumb for not checking "pricing" before, but seriously why wasn't that under "features"?)
- alceta 6y agoCore maintainer here, I agree that this should be more discoverable. I will forward this to include a comparison link on the feature page itself.
- lebaux 6y agoI honestly think it is discoverable enough. I assume the reason why it is slightly complicated to find is business related. And that is understandable and fine. With Amazon taking any opensource and hosting it on its own I would even go as far as saying use less permissive licence for future releases. Openproject came a long way. There, I said it.
- neckardt 6y agoThe source code is linked in the footer, you just need to click the unlabeled github icon.
- TeMPOraL 6y agoEvery now and then I've been ranting here that there's a missing task management product for software teams: one that would embrace that tasks form DAGs, not flat two-level trees, and one that would have GANTT charts built-in. This seems to tick both of these boxes, and couple more as well. Thank you for submitting it. You may have just found exactly what I was looking for.
- punnerud 6y agoI see several people have posed about OpenProject on HN, but never before made it to the front page. Good to see it up there now.
- smt88 6y agoClickUp and Jira both fit your description. The problem with software for software teams is not that the big players are missing features. It's that every team wants something that is highly customized for them, and that leads to feature bloat. Then people say, "Why doesn't Jira have ____?" In fact it does have that, but it's hard to find it in the massive UI that contains all those features. I had this same issue testing Asana many years ago. I could tell that it could do what we wanted (or what anyone wanted), but I didn't want to spend 3 hours figuring out how to do it.
- satya71 6y agoWe tried ClickUp and gave up quickly. It has so many features that finding the thing to do takes a lot of time.
- topicseed 6y agoUsing ClickUp heavily for my content business... but definitely not for software! ClickUp has a huge range of features and it's getting more and more complex to onboard people. Really cannot wait for Google Workspace to offer real task/project management features.
- TeMPOraL 6y agoHaven't heard of ClickUp before. Perhaps I instinctively ignored it before because of the name. It looks like a crossbreed between Airtable and Jira, and it makes me wonder how well it'll handle dense task lists... Still, thanks for mentioning it, I'll take a closer look. RE Jira - I've never seen a GANTT chart & critical path pulled out of it, though I imagine management 2 layers above me had that option. That said, my experience with Jira was somewhat painful, with a rather slow and annoyingly click-heavy UI. Also, IIRC, tasks in Jira can only have one level of subtasks, and I don't recall being able to form DAGs from them. I imagine it's hard to prevent featuritis in this tool category, when you're addressing different hierarchy levels simultaneously. That said, there are many successful companies, like Trello, that thrive on delivering bare-bones, simplified tooling with perfected UX. I just wonder why there doesn't seem to be anything like that for a featureset that includes tasks forming DAGs, GANTT charts, computing critical path, and relative scheduling (e.g. "task Y takes starts after X and takes 5 work days").
- edgarvaldes 6y agoNot to be confused with Project Open http://www.project-open.com/ http://www.project-open.com/
- galaxyLogic 6y agoSo this is Open Source but there are "premium features". How does that work license-wise?
- messo 6y agoIt's only partly open sourced, the premium features are closed (open-core in other words). Also, Open Project is a fork of Redmine. I evaluated both a while ago, and Open Project differs in two ways: fancier design and a broader scope. While redmine is geared towards software development, Open Project has generalized the interface, language and some features to be better suited for any business out of the box. Redmine, on the other hand, has a lot of plugins that is not compatible with open project and can be customized to suit your needs.
- nobrains 6y agoDoes this have auto scheduling of tasks? (I could not determine from the features page).
- robinhood 6y agoLooks like it’s the same documentation system as the one used by GitLab.
- Babynus 6y agoHi, ProjeQtOr ticks all the boxes. It integrates all the features that others have, and even more. Two level WBS : of course, ProjeQtOr does it, and even 20 or mode Levels if you wish !!! You don't have restrictions with ProjeQtOr; You can have projets with sub-projects, with sub-sub-projects (and so on) and each project can have tasks, with sub-tasks, and sub-sub-tasks (and so on). But if you want only two levels, you also can. Gantt chart ; ProjeQtOr also provides it but not only; You can have project portfolio, resource Gantt chart (not a real Gantt but very easy to read and very efficient to analyse resource planning). ProjeQtOr also provides real capacity planning calculation : you don't only draw a gantt chart, ProjeQtOr calculates it for you depending on the constraints and resources capacity (when resources are shared on several projects, it's not an easy trick). ProjeQtOr also calculates the critical path (which is in fact a critical chain in ProjeQtOr as planning is driven from resource capacity) And all of this is easy to install, easy to use, and free. Really, ProjeQtOr is worth a try.
- sejka 6y agoagile boards not included in community edition makes it hard to consider switch from self hosted gitlab :(