OpenProject vs Trello

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Trello vs OpenProject: What are the differences?

Trello: Your entire project, in a single glance. Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards. In one glance, Trello tells you what's being worked on, who's working on what, and where something is in a process; OpenProject: Aa web-based project collaboration software. It is an open source software for project management with a wide set of features and plugins and an active international community.

Trello and OpenProject can be primarily classified as "Project Management" tools.

Some of the features offered by Trello are:

  • Add a checklist to keep on top of all those little to-dos. There’s also a nice, big progress meter, because who doesn’t love a nice, big progress meter?
  • Got a relevant file, image, or document? Attach it right to the card, and you’ll never have to go scrambling through your inbox looking for it later.
  • Attach photos, drawings, sketches, and mockups to quickly illustrate ideas at a glance.

On the other hand, OpenProject provides the following key features:

  • Project planning and scheduling
  • Task management
  • Team collaboration

OpenProject is an open source tool with 3.26K GitHub stars and 1K GitHub forks. Here's a link to OpenProject's open source repository on GitHub.

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I'm comparing Aha!, Trello and Asana. We are looking for it as a Product Management Team. Jira handles all our development and storyboard etc. This is for Product Management for Roadmaps, Backlogs, future stories, etc. Cost is a factor, as well. Does anyone have a comparison chart of Pros and Cons? Thank you.

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Max Stuart
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I just switched to ClickUp for my development agency - I am the product team, and I relay everything there betwixt designers, devs, and clients.

Clickup = Jira + Confluence but better - more ways to slice and dice your data & documents, make custom views, mind map relationships, and track people's work, plan goals... I even use it to manage project finances and household to-dos.

They have a very comprehensive free tier that never expires, and on top of that they're extremely generous with trials of their paid features, have more-than-fair pricing, and top-notch customer support.

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Ivan Begtin
Director - NGO "Informational Culture" / Ambassador - OKFN Russia at Infoculture · | 5 upvotes · 214.4K views

Both Asana and Trello support Kanban style project tracking. Trello is Kanban-only project management, knowledge management, actually card-management tools. Asana is much more complex, supports different project management approaches, well integrated and helpful for any style/type project.

We choose Asana finally, but still some projects kept in Trello

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Abhay Vashishtha

Procezo is an excellent free-for-life task managing tool with several benefits. Its clear, user-friendly interface is perfect for small businesses and startups as well as enterprise-level use. It makes it a seamless transition from any other project management tools. Its simple but effective layout allows new users to quickly adapt to its ever-expanding set of features. Procezo allows users to create boards and provide access to users or teams as required, set priority and precedence of the task and allowing for subtasks and discussions to be created. With unlimited tasks, users, projects and free support, Procezo is quickly making its way into businesses from across the world and the ultimate growth hack tool.

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I loved Slack. We used it for discussion. But somehow, it was always difficult to get things done. HeySpace is what replaced Slack and Trello as it combines the functionality of both tools.

So, now we keep on discussing as we did on slack, but once we to a point where we want to do something, we create tasks on a board and distribute them.

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Ram Kumar
CTO, Architect at Sarvasv.in · | 2 upvotes · 167.3K views

trello has a much simpler interface and easy to learn for any team member. asana might have more features and configuration options but do you really need a complex system for developers to manage tasks?

After Microsoft took over trello, it has become more restricted these days but still good for startups.

Keep it simple! Focus on your product, not tools.

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Pros of OpenProject
Pros of Trello
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    • 715
      Great for collaboration
    • 628
      Easy to use
    • 573
      Free
    • 375
      Fast
    • 347
      Realtime
    • 237
      Intuitive
    • 215
      Visualizing
    • 169
      Flexible
    • 126
      Fun user interface
    • 83
      Snappy and blazing fast
    • 30
      Simple, intuitive UI that gets out of your way
    • 27
      Kanban
    • 21
      Clean Interface
    • 18
      Easy setup
    • 18
      Card Structure
    • 17
      Drag and drop attachments
    • 11
      Simple
    • 10
      Markdown commentary on cards
    • 9
      Lists
    • 9
      Integration with other work collaborative apps
    • 8
      Satisfying User Experience
    • 8
      Cross-Platform Integration
    • 7
      Recognizes GitHub commit links
    • 6
      Easy to learn
    • 5
      Great
    • 4
      Better than email
    • 4
      Versatile Team & Project Management
    • 3
      and lots of integrations
    • 3
      Trello’s Developmental Transparency
    • 3
      Effective
    • 2
      Easy
    • 2
      Powerful
    • 2
      Agile
    • 2
      Easy to have an overview of the project status
    • 2
      flexible and fast
    • 2
      Simple and intuitive
    • 1
      Name rolls of the tongue
    • 1
      Customizable
    • 1
      Email integration
    • 1
      Personal organisation
    • 1
      Nice
    • 1
      Great organizing (of events/tasks)
    • 0
      Easiest way to visually express the scope of projects

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    Cons of OpenProject
    Cons of Trello
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      • 5
        No concept of velocity or points
      • 4
        Very light native integrations
      • 2
        A little too flexible

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      What is OpenProject?

      It is an open source software for project management with a wide set of features and plugins and an active international community.

      What is Trello?

      Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards. In one glance, Trello tells you what's being worked on, who's working on what, and where something is in a process.

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