Project Management Software Comparison: OpenProject vs Taiga vs Redmine vs Gitlab vs WeKan vs NextCloud Deck vs Vikunja vs EspoCRM
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I am the person who has tried all project management and kanban tools in Cloudron for at least a few weeks. Me an my project manager had to pick one for the team. I may sound too opinionated but Taiga is the best PM tool out there. Blazing fast, lots of features and stable, while being simple for beginners to get used to. Nothing else compares. We recently moved to Jira feom Taiga and miss the simplicity and speed. Feature-wise Taiga is no less than Jira.
wrote on Jan 17, 2023, 11:39 PM last edited by@nj JIRA? When you have GitLab as an option here too? I remember being so happy migrating away from JIRA after years of random issue with it just staying up.
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@nj said in Project Management Software Comparison: OpenProject vs Taiga vs Redmine vs Gitlab vs WeKan vs NextCloud Deck vs Vikunja vs EspoCRM:
I am the person who has tried all project management and kanban tools in Cloudron for at least a few weeks. Me an my project manager had to pick one for the team. I may sound too opinionated but Taiga is the best PM tool out there. Blazing fast, lots of features and stable, while being simple for beginners to get used to. Nothing else compares. We recently moved to Jira feom Taiga and miss the simplicity and speed. Feature-wise Taiga is no less than Jira.
Great, and thanks! This is just the sort of experience I was hoping to hear. Stuff like this encourages people to give something a try, in this case, Taiga.
Why did you prefer Taiga to OpenProject?
wrote on Jan 18, 2023, 4:04 PM last edited by nj Jan 18, 2023, 4:05 PMWhy we moved?
Because the PM was used to Jira, and insisted we needed mobile apps and real-time push notification for task updates! Nobody likes Jira and push notifications. We regret switching, but it's now too hard to switch back to Taiga.Why not OpenProject?
Because of their pricing which is in fact cheaper than Jira now, but you know.. everyone is now on Jira.
Why not Gitlab?
Because we use Gitea. Gitlab randomly crashed and needed too much memory to run. Also we failed to migrate hundreds of repos from Gitea to Gitlab, so there's no point of using Gitlab only for project management. -
Why we moved?
Because the PM was used to Jira, and insisted we needed mobile apps and real-time push notification for task updates! Nobody likes Jira and push notifications. We regret switching, but it's now too hard to switch back to Taiga.Why not OpenProject?
Because of their pricing which is in fact cheaper than Jira now, but you know.. everyone is now on Jira.Why not Gitlab?
Because we use Gitea. Gitlab randomly crashed and needed too much memory to run. Also we failed to migrate hundreds of repos from Gitea to Gitlab, so there's no point of using Gitlab only for project management. -
Why we moved?
Because the PM was used to Jira, and insisted we needed mobile apps and real-time push notification for task updates! Nobody likes Jira and push notifications. We regret switching, but it's now too hard to switch back to Taiga.Why not OpenProject?
Because of their pricing which is in fact cheaper than Jira now, but you know.. everyone is now on Jira.Why not Gitlab?
Because we use Gitea. Gitlab randomly crashed and needed too much memory to run. Also we failed to migrate hundreds of repos from Gitea to Gitlab, so there's no point of using Gitlab only for project management.wrote on Jan 18, 2023, 8:52 PM last edited by@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.
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@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.
wrote on Jan 18, 2023, 9:13 PM last edited by@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.
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@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.
wrote on Jan 19, 2023, 12:00 AM last edited by@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.
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@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.
wrote on Jan 19, 2023, 1:02 AM last edited by@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
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@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!wrote on Jan 19, 2023, 10:09 AM last edited by@jdaviescoates Productivity hack: change your phone accessibility settings to greyscale. Much less alluring to keep checking it.
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@jdaviescoates Productivity hack: change your phone accessibility settings to greyscale. Much less alluring to keep checking it.
wrote on Jan 19, 2023, 12:21 PM last edited by@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!
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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?
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@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!
@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
Itās not mess !
Itās a well known storage strategy which I call āhorizontal filingā. -
@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
Itās not mess !
Itās a well known storage strategy which I call āhorizontal filingā.wrote 6 days ago last edited by@timconsidine said in Project Management Software Comparison: OpenProject vs Taiga vs Redmine vs Gitlab vs WeKan vs NextCloud Deck vs Vikunja vs EspoCRM:
Itās not mess !
Itās a well known storage strategy which I call āhorizontal filingā. -
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?
wrote 5 days ago last edited by@Stefan EspoCRM probably your best bet, you can configure it to do anything you need.