Work and productivity

European project management software

Plan work in tools hosted under EU rules

Replaces: Asana · Jira

Project management software is the shared workspace where a team breaks work into tasks, assigns owners, sets deadlines and watches progress. Boards, lists, Gantt charts and backlogs each suit different ways of working, and most tools support several. Time tracking, calendars, file attachments and comments keep the discussion attached to the work rather than scattered through email.

Over a few years a project tool becomes an archive of client names, internal decisions and staff performance, all of it personal data in part. OpenProject, awork and Stackfield are European products, and OpenProject can be self hosted. A European alternative to a US project management tool keeps that archive in the EU, so check the export format before your history grows large.

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OpenProject

Open source project management software from Germany

OpenProject is a project management software from Germany. It is open source and can be self-hosted, with a cloud option for teams that do not want to run it themselves. Everything is built around tasks, which anyone can create and which can be assigned and then viewed as a kanban board, a timeline or a calendar, depending on how you plan. Other services can be connected, and the API lets you build your own integrations.

GermanyEU hostedOpen sourceFree plan

Self-hosted and open source

Open source projects you can run yourself. Not necessarily made in Europe, but nobody else holds your data.

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