What is Redmine and what are its top alternatives?
Redmine is an open-source project management tool that offers features such as issue tracking, Gantt charts, calendars, and wikis. It is highly customizable and can be extended with plugins. However, some limitations of Redmine include its complex user interface, lack of modern design, and difficulty in setting up for non-technical users.
- Jira: Jira is a popular project management tool with features like Agile boards, customizable workflows, and advanced reporting. Pros: user-friendly interface, extensive integration options. Cons: costly for large teams.
- Asana: Asana is a collaboration tool that offers task management, timelines, and team communication. Pros: intuitive design, easy to use. Cons: limited features for complex project management.
- Trello: Trello is a visual project management tool with boards, lists, and cards. Pros: simple and flexible, great for visual learners. Cons: lacks advanced features for complex projects.
- Monday.com: Monday.com is a versatile project management tool with customizable workflows and dashboards. Pros: flexible and customizable, easy to use. Cons: pricing can be expensive for large teams.
- ClickUp: ClickUp is a comprehensive project management tool with features like docs, goals, and time tracking. Pros: all-in-one solution, customizable. Cons: can be overwhelming for beginners.
- GitLab: GitLab offers project management features alongside Git repository hosting. Pros: integrated DevOps capabilities, open-source. Cons: not as feature-rich as dedicated project management tools.
- Zoho Projects: Zoho Projects is a cloud-based project management tool with task tracking, timesheets, and Gantt charts. Pros: affordable pricing, integration with other Zoho apps. Cons: interface can be overwhelming for some users.
- Basecamp: Basecamp is a simple project management tool with to-do lists, messages, and file storage. Pros: easy to use, great for communication. Cons: lacks advanced project management features.
- Smartsheet: Smartsheet is a spreadsheet-like project management tool with Gantt charts, reports, and automation. Pros: familiar interface, powerful automation capabilities. Cons: can be complex for beginners.
- Wrike: Wrike is a project management tool with Gantt charts, real-time collaboration, and resource management. Pros: customizable, great for cross-functional teams. Cons: pricing can be high for advanced features.
Top Alternatives to Redmine
- Jira
Jira's secret sauce is the way it simplifies the complexities of software development into manageable units of work. Jira comes out-of-the-box with everything agile teams need to ship value to customers faster. ...
- Bugzilla
Bugzilla is a "Defect Tracking System" or "Bug-Tracking System". Defect Tracking Systems allow individual or groups of developers to keep track of outstanding bugs in their product effectively. Most commercial defect-tracking software vendors charge enormous licensing fees. Despite being "free", Bugzilla has many features its expensive counterparts lack. ...
- Asana
Asana is the easiest way for teams to track their work. From tasks and projects to conversations and dashboards, Asana enables teams to move work from start to finish--and get results. Available at asana.com and on iOS & Android. ...
- YouTrack
A project management tool that can be adapted to your processes to help you deliver great products. Track tasks and bugs, plan sprints and releases, create workflows, and customize for your business processes. ...
- Tuleap
Using the most efficient industry-leading software development approaches such as DevOps and Agile methods, Tuleap helps teams to make high quality and easier to manage software. With Tuleap, deliver value faster and better. ...
- ChiliProject
It is a web based project management system. It supports your team throughout the complete project life cycle, from setting up and discussing a project plan, over tracking issues and reporting work progress to collaboratively sharing knowledge. ...
- Collabtive
It is a web-based project management software published as free software. It provides an open source alternative to proprietary tools like Basecamp, Asana and Trello. ...
- OpenProject
It is an open source software for project management with a wide set of features and plugins and an active international community. ...
Redmine alternatives & related posts
Jira
- Powerful310
- Flexible254
- Easy separation of projects149
- Run in the cloud113
- Code integration105
- Easy to use57
- Run on your own52
- Great customization39
- Easy Workflow Configuration38
- REST API27
- Great Agile Management tool12
- Integrates with virtually everything7
- Confluence6
- Complicated5
- Sentry Issues Integration3
- Rather expensive8
- Large memory requirement5
- Slow2
- Cloud or Datacenter only1
related Jira posts
So I am a huge fan of JIRA like #massive I used it for many many years, and really loved it, used it personally and at work. I would suggest every new workplace that I worked at to switch to JIRA instead of what I was using.
When I started at #StackShare we were using a Trello #Kanban board and I was so shocked at how easy the workflow was to follow, create new tasks and get tasks QA'd and deployed. What was so great about this was it didn't come with all the complexity of JIRA. Like setting up a project, user rules etc. You are able to hit the ground running with Trello and get tasks started right away without being overwhelmed with the complexity of options in JIRA
With a few TrelloPowerUps we were easily able to add GitHub integration and storyPoints to our cards and thats all we needed to get a really nice agile workflow going.
I'm not saying that JIRA is not useful, I can see larger companies being able to use the JIRA features and have the time to go through all the complex setup to get a really good workflow going. But for smaller #Startups that want to hit the ground running Trello for me is the way to go.
In saying that what I would love Trello to implement is to allow me to create custom fields. Right now we just have a Description
field. So I am adding User Stories
& How To Test
in the Markdown of the Description
if I could have these as custom fields then my #Agile workflow would be complete.
#StackDecisionsLaunch
Last time we shared there information about our decision about using YouTrack over Jira actually we found much better solution that our team have loved. Linear is a minimalistic issue tracker that integrates well with Sentry, GitHub, Slack and Figma which are our basic tools. I would like to recommend checking out Linear as a potential alternative to "heavy" issue trackers, maybe at enterprises that may not work but when we're a startup that works awesome!
- Detailed2
- Free2
- Open source2
- Easy to use1
related Bugzilla posts
- Super fast task creation160
- Flexible project management150
- Free up to 15101
- Followers and commenting on tasks99
- Integration with external services57
- Email-based task creation25
- Plays nice with Google Apps17
- Clear usage14
- Plays nice with Harvest Time Tracking14
- Supports nice keyboard shortcuts6
- Integration with GitHub4
- Slack supported2
- Integration with Instagantt for Gantt Charts2
- Integration with Alfred1
- Both Card View & Task View1
- Easy to use1
- Friendly API1
- Slick and fast interface0
- Not Cross Platform0
related Asana posts
Sentry has been essential to our development approach. Nobody likes errors or apps that crash. We use Sentry heavily during Node.js and React development. Our developers are able to see error reports, crashes, user's browsers, and more, all in one place. Sentry also seamlessly integrates with Asana, Slack, and GitHub.
Application and Data: Since my personal website ( https://alisoueidan.com ) is a SPA I've chosen to use Vue.js, as a framework to create it. After a short skeptical phase I immediately felt in love with the single file component concept! I also used vuex for state management, which makes working with several components, which are communicating with each other even more fun and convenient to use. Of course, using Vue requires using JavaScript as well, since it is the basis of it.
For markup and style, I used Pug and Sass, since they’re the perfect match to me. I love the clean and strict syntax of both of them and even more that their structure is almost similar. Also, both of them come with an expanded functionality such as mixins, loops and so on related to their “siblings” (HTML and CSS). Both of them require nesting and prevent untidy code, which can be a huge advantage when working in teams. I used JSON to store data (since the data quantity on my website is moderate) – JSON works also good in combo with Pug, using for loops, based on the JSON Objects for example.
To send my contact form I used PHP, since sending emails using PHP is still relatively convenient, simple and easy done.
DevOps: Of course, I used Git to do my version management (which I even do in smaller projects like my website just have an additional backup of my code). On top of that I used GitHub since it now supports private repository for free accounts (which I am using for my own). I use Babel to use ES6 functionality such as arrow functions and so on, and still don’t losing cross browser compatibility.
Side note: I used npm for package management. 🎉
*Business Tools: * I use Asana to organize my project. This is a big advantage to me, even if I work alone, since “private” projects can get interrupted for some time. By using Asana I still know (even after month of not touching a project) what I’ve done, on which task I was at last working on and what still is to do. Working in Teams (for enterprise I’d take on Jira instead) of course Asana is a Tool which I really love to use as well. All the graphics on my website are SVG which I have created with Adobe Illustrator and adjusted within the SVG code or by using JavaScript or CSS (SASS).
- Cheap and well featured2
- Good looking, well done, comfortable0
- Cheap0
- Poor ecosystem integrations (ex. Slack)1
related YouTrack posts
Last time we shared there information about our decision about using YouTrack over Jira actually we found much better solution that our team have loved. Linear is a minimalistic issue tracker that integrates well with Sentry, GitHub, Slack and Figma which are our basic tools. I would like to recommend checking out Linear as a potential alternative to "heavy" issue trackers, maybe at enterprises that may not work but when we're a startup that works awesome!
YouTrack feels much more lightweight than Jira and additionally have all of features that Jira have, of course lacks at some analytics features, but it's more powerful at permission management and agile workflow. Additionally YouTrack have awesome integration with other JetBrains products such as incoming JetBrains Space and all other IDEs such as GoLand.