Free alternative to Atlassian Greenhopper/PivotalTracker? [closed]

Asked 22/3, 2014 at 22:52 Answered 11/2, 2016 at 5:51

project-management jira agile sprint pivotaltracker

I'm working with my brother on a website idea we have, and we'd like to use a tool to plan sprints and assign estimates to individual tickets.

Atlassian's JIRA+Greenhopper looks fantastic but costs $20/month and at this stage we're just validating our idea and would rather not spend money on a tool if we can avoid it.

Are there any free alternatives to these tools?

Stephanestephani answered 22/3, 2014 at 22:52 Comment(3)

Take a look at asitrack.com. – Turman 5/8, 2014 at 23:0

Atm, you can try Jira for a month, for free... And host the service yourselves, for 20 dollar (total)... (I'm considering) Taiga is nice indeed! – Macrography 9/2, 2015 at 15:13

One more alternative to be considered Krosswall ( krosswall.com ). It’s design to bridging the GAP between Agile in THEORY and Agile in IMPLEMENTATION. – Carpio 1/12, 2017 at 5:27

Taiga is 100% free and has all the features that comes with something like JIRA.

http://taiga.io/

It even has a burn-down chart! So that's a win!

Here's a site with a nice overview of what Taiga integrates with and real developer opinions on the tool.

http://stackshare.io/taiga

Stephanestephani answered 3/11, 2014 at 19:53 Comment(7)

It's a very nice pm system. However, it should be noted that Taiga is free for public projects only. Currently, private projects will be free during the Beta phase until July 2015. There will be a cost associated with a private project afterwards. – Ivory 20/4, 2015 at 15:47

Taiga is open source. Private projects by cloud hosted taiga will have a cost (not sure if July 2015) but users can always self-host their own Taiga. – Marciano 30/4, 2015 at 7:47

@Marciano Taiga is pretty hard to setup – Moncada 11/1, 2016 at 2:17

@Nn-bhargav we have our online docs taigaio.github.io/taiga-doc/dist/#_setup_production_environment, a [email protected] email and a community mailing list at groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/taigaio to help you out with installation, and some users created scripts and dockers to make it easier. – Marciano 15/1, 2016 at 11:31

Is it free only for public projects? – Johanajohanan 11/2, 2016 at 9:36

At the time of writing, (2016-02-24) Taiga does allow free accounts to have private projects. – Gonzalo 23/2, 2016 at 22:10

Looks good and has Kanban and Scum, but is very restrictive and you need your ticket workflow to be as they designed it. For example: you have to work with story and with subtasks in Sprint, but you cannot add bug or engancement unless is linked to a story. Also you cannot see all tickes types (bug, story, task, enhancement) on same page. On kanban view you can only see tasks(not stories). I found it to restrictive and will look for other tools. Check discussion from their project page: github.com/taigaio/taiga-front/issues/797 – Puerperium 12/9, 2016 at 18:1

Trello is a good tool for creating task boards and tracking work for small teams.

https://trello.com/

Cycloparaffin answered 23/3, 2014 at 1:23 Comment(4)

Unfortunately it doesn't track time and does not show addition of time for N tickets in a sprint. – Stephanestephani 23/3, 2014 at 3:5

He he, Steven, I also use Trello, and for very very small teams, including non-programmers, it is good option, but I have worked with JIRA for a while in past, and yeah - branch traking combining with Stash is great value! :) – Seamstress 24/2, 2015 at 20:22

Trello itself may not have time tracking, but you can always use a Chrome extension to add that feature. Something like Plus for Trello: chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/plus-for-trello-time-trac/… – Redolent 10/1, 2016 at 18:20

Trello is terrible for scrum. It's a simple task board. No more no less. – Johanajohanan 11/2, 2016 at 9:37

I get this question a lot as a Scrum Trainer.

I strongly recommend Index Cards and a Physical Scrum Board. While it won't calculate time addition for you, that task is trivial and the 'information at a glance' that a Scrum Board offers is hugely beneficial.

If you absolutely HAVE to have an electronic board, try Visual Studio Online (TFS in the cloud) which, at present, is free for up to 5 users.

Sheelagh answered 23/3, 2014 at 9:30 Comment(4)

Yes, the best free alternative is the Physical Scrum board! And calculations are not so hard. @Serg you can use a google spreadsheet for those. It is pretty easy to build your sheet to calculate everything for you - it is just basic math. – Perdu 24/3, 2014 at 10:54

you can not do this for distributed teams – Yelena 22/3, 2016 at 23:42

We need a physical board, but we're distributed. My first mental draft is: 1) Use Trello to virtually optimise the Product Backlog 2) Take photos of the physical board and post them back to Trello or somewhere common. 3) Product Owner (wherever they are) is in charge of doing that. Ideally, there is one source of truth for the board, but obviously it can be copied by hand form another location. – Egan 26/5, 2017 at 6:53

@jtrein I suggest that distributed teams are still best served by physical scrum boards. This can be achieved through simple use of 24/7 webcam, collaboration and communication, all of which help break down the barriers that exist between geographically dislocated team members. Some references: linkedin.com/pulse/… (Patrick Lencioni) webgate.ltd.uk/electronic-scrum-board-vs-physical-scrum-board (Disclaimer: I wrote this article) – Sheelagh 26/5, 2017 at 20:16

Another option (We use Jira) would be YouTRACK. http://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack/buy/

It is free for up to 10 users and seems to offer pretty much the same functionality.

DISCLAIMER: I have never used YouTRACK on any level. IntelliJ is a great product though.

Glovsky answered 30/3, 2014 at 22:43 Comment(1)

No private projects in the free version. – Cobalt 3/10, 2015 at 12:58

For Agile project management, I have used extensive Thoughtworks - Mingle It's free for 5 users. Another good alternative could be agilefant. Agilefant offers a free and open source product that can be downloaded and deployed into your own private cloud.

If you are looking open source project management, which you can host on your own, the following list could be useful:

ProjectLibre is a java based ms-project rich client alternative
LibrePlan is a rich client and based on these videos it seems like ms-project and includes hours spend by user on task, collaboration was not visible in the videos
OpenProject is a web based software with features such as issues, time lines (gantt chart), calendars, meeting notes and more
Redmine is a web based software using the Ruby on Rails framework that includes issues, work log, a wiki and a gantt chart and more.

Unobtrusive answered 5/8, 2014 at 7:22 Comment(2)

It seems to me based on my 1h research that Project Libe and LibrePlan are more like ms project and offer little collaboration. Where OpenProject and Redmine are more like jira with collaboration features. – Buckboard 20/4, 2016 at 21:5

valid point., thanks for updating the answer – Unobtrusive 22/4, 2016 at 13:39

You can also check TargetProcess (http://www.targetprocess.com/pricing/) it's free for 5 users

i use it for three months and it's very good

Germanium answered 17/7, 2014 at 11:43 Comment(0)

I used Trello (http://trello.com) and Mingle (http://getmingle.io) on two different projects. Trello is great for tracking tasks and collaborating for small team. My trello project team had 3 members, we were distributed. We also use Google drives to track unstructured information. My mingle project team have more than 10 people, and used it for years. Team love using it for standup on big touch TV and different roles (BA/QA/PM) like it because you have have your own workspace track different tasks and sometime build their own report).

Eos answered 20/8, 2014 at 19:16 Comment(2)

Trello is not so robust – Moncada 15/8, 2015 at 16:18

@NBhargav -- Trello can be more robust with the help of extensions like Plus for Trello. – Redolent 10/1, 2016 at 18:42

IceScrum. It's open source and you can run on your own server. The best open source project planning in my opinion!

Monochasium answered 16/1, 2016 at 2:49 Comment(0)

-1

https://www.teamwork.com/pricing

"If you don't pay after the 30 day free trial you can still use Teamwork Projects free forever"

"We also have a Free Forever Plan with 2 projects and 100mb space"

Allowance answered 11/2, 2016 at 5:51 Comment(0)

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