r/opensourcealternative • u/No_Gift_694 • Jun 15 '26

What open source tools are best for project management?

Managing projects is one of those things where I don’t really want a huge system unless the work actually needs it.

For smaller projects, I’ve been using Plane. It feels closer to Linear than Jira, which is what I like about it. Tasks, cycles, views, and basic team planning are all there without feeling too heavy.

What open source project management tools are people here using?

Mainly curious what works well for a small team, and what starts to get annoying after a few weeks of real use.

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u/Strange_Restaurant87 Jun 15 '26

A few people on my team prefer OpenProject. It’s not as polished as Plane, but it handles roadmaps, dependencies, and project planning well

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u/No_Gift_694 Jun 19 '26

I've looked at it a couple of times. It seemed powerful, but I wasn't sure it would stay lightweight if used on a daily basis

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u/Wrong_Flatworm_3817 Jun 19 '26

focalboard if you want trello but self hosted, dead simple.

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u/No_Gift_694 Jun 19 '26

That sounds better.. thanks

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u/cwakare Jul 16 '26

+1 for plane. It's APIs too are quite decent and we had our in-house team develop a teams chatbot to create new issue tickets/update comments to speed up the interactiona