Project Management Software Comparison: OpenProject vs Taiga vs Redmine vs Gitlab vs WeKan vs NextCloud Deck vs Vikunja vs EspoCRM

[marcusquinn]

@nj Fair enough, we've been slowly moving from GitLab to Gitea + Drone. I hear you on push notifications & mobile apps, we live without them, happily

Funny how so many of these apps rely on that one noisy person that insists that their app is best, and it being easier to burn a business than migrate tools. Data and process lock-in is my nemesis.

[LoudLemur]

@marcusquinn Applications ought to be designed to protect the user's attention. Most social-media appliactions do quite the reverse. Perhaps this is the case with Project Management tools, too.

[marcusquinn]

@LoudLemur They often end up becoming more entertainment tools for management, because those are the internal influencers charged with squeezing as much as possible the doers.

One day I'll write agile project management. I've build the essence of it into EspoCRM in every area, and it works amazingly well for almost zero staff training. Simplicity take extreme determination though, as people naturally feel complexity justifies ongoing work.

You hit the nail on the head though, the vast majority of project management is removing distractions, and stopping people from distracting themselves with the unnecessary. I see the most brilliant people can become the worst at it too.

[jdaviescoates]

@marcusquinn said in Project Management Software Comparison: OpenProject vs Taiga vs Redmine vs Gitlab vs WeKan vs NextCloud Deck vs Vikunja vs EspoCRM:

I hear you on push notifications & mobile apps, we live without them, happily

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Even other people's phone (e.g. my wife's, we're both remote workers who mostly work from home - she likes them though ) notifications really annoy me!

[marcusquinn]

@jdaviescoates Productivity hack: change your phone accessibility settings to greyscale. Much less alluring to keep checking it.

[jdaviescoates]

@marcusquinn I have pretty much all my notifications completely turned off, but yeah, that's a good tip

It's the pinging and vibrating my wife's does all the time that gets me. I don't understand how it doesn't drive her mad too! But she doesn't understand how I can tolerate so much mess either, so there you are!

[Stefan]

Hi. Great to read about your experiences. Thanks for sharing.

I tested Taiga, Leantime, Wekan and many more open source project management tools.

We're a small non profit organisation from Germany. Our people work pro bono (without payment) in their free time.

Although Taiga, Leantime and Wekan seem to have the feature to notify people via email when their task due date is reached, that didn't work when we tested it. It's a feature we need since most of our people don't regularly open their project management tool.

Vikunja was the only solution that had that feature.
I also tested: Gitlab, Github, Kanboard, NextCloud Deck, FOCALBOARD, Mattermost Playbooks, Odoo, Planka and Trello.

Do you know a free project management tool that has those mentioned email notifications?

[timconsidine]

@jdaviescoates said in Project Management Software Comparison: OpenProject vs Taiga vs Redmine vs Gitlab vs WeKan vs NextCloud Deck vs Vikunja vs EspoCRM:

she doesn't understand how I can tolerate so much mess

It’s not mess !
It’s a well known storage strategy which I call “horizontal filing”.

[jdaviescoates]

@timconsidine said in Project Management Software Comparison: OpenProject vs Taiga vs Redmine vs Gitlab vs WeKan vs NextCloud Deck vs Vikunja vs EspoCRM:

It’s not mess !
It’s a well known storage strategy which I call “horizontal filing”.

[marcusquinn]

@Stefan EspoCRM probably your best bet, you can configure it to do anything you need.