OpenProject is an open source project management software. It supports classic, agile as well as hybrid project management. It enables distributed teams to collaborate throughout the entire project lifecycle: From initial planning to project execution and documentation.
Core functions and use cases of OpenProject are:
- Project Portfolio Management: Keep full control over your project portfolio, ensuring you're always on the right track.
- Project Planning and Scheduling: Plan and schedule with precision, keeping everything on time and on budget.
- Task Management and Issue Tracking: Effortlessly track tasks and resolve issues, prioritize, collect feedback, assign responsibilities.
- Agile Boards (Scrum and Kanban): Embrace agile methodologies with powerful boards, making teamwork smoother and more agile.
- Requirements Management and Release Planning: Define requirements and plan releases with ease, ensuring your project meets its goals.
- Time and Cost Tracking, Budgeting: Stay on top of time and costs, keep and eye on project budgets.
- Team Collaboration and Documentation: Collaborate seamlessly with your distributed teams, exchange documents and document and share progress.
OpenProject is licensed under GNU GPL v3. The source code if publicly available on GitHub. Changes to the source code can be transparently tracked at any time. This gives organizations full control over their data. The software is being actively developed and maintained by an international community, with support of the City of Cologne and many other clients from the public sector or other industries. OpenProject is available in over 30 languages.
Key differentiators of OpenProject are:
- Highest security and privacy requirements: OpenProject meets highest privacy and security requirements. The company is based in Berlin, Germany, and places its emphasis on developing a secure and privacy-compliant European alternative for project management and team collaboration.
- Data sovereignty: With OpenProject, users retain full control over their data. With the self-installed version running on own servers, OpenProject offers the highest level of data sovereignty. Alternatively, hosting is provided on demand on secure servers within Germany. Subcontractors are all based in the EU, there is no user tracking on websites nor within the application.
- Comprehensive project management features: OpenProject models the entire project lifecycle, from project planning, through implementation and project controlling, to project completion. The software supports classic, agile and hybrid project management approaches in a secure environment and all different project management methodologies, e.g. PRINCE2 or PM2.
- Configuration: OpenProject is flexibly configurable and can thus be adapted to individual requirements suitable for the respective company processes. With a powerful API, additional systems can be connected as needed.
- Active maintenance and development: OpenProject is continuously developed and maintained by an active developer community. New features, improvements and updates are released regularly. This also allows a quick reaction to possible security gaps.
- Professional support and training: OpenProject GmbH offers professional support and training. This ensures that users receive both technical and functional support to work with the software in the best possible way.
The OpenProject Community edition can be downloaded and installed for free. OpenProject GmbH offers a hosted cloud edition as well as an on-premises edition with support, as well premium features, and additional security features. There are special rates for non-profit organizations and educational institutions.
