Redmine

Versátil mas difícil

Comentários: No odo foi um bom sistema, foi possível extrair muitas estatísticas e organizar bem o modo de trabalho das equipes. Infelizmente, pela dificuldade em conseguir manter as alterações em bom funcionamento, muitas das equipes abandonaram seu uso e então ficou bastante restrito. No mais deveria dispor de mais exemplos prontos de configuração que possam dar vazão a novos utilizadores.

Vantagens:

A ferramenta é bastante versáril, aceita plug-ins e configurações de personalização bastante adaptativas.

Desvantagens:

É bastante complexa e difícil a configuração da ferramenta. Como trabalhamos com equipes de distintas funções, não foi possível adequar um modelo que atendesse a todos de forma padronizada.

Facilitou a organização das minhas tarefas

Vantagens:

Muitas vezes tive reuniões com clientes onde eles passavam demandas desenfreadamente e sem controle nenhum e no fim sempre algumas se perdiam no meio das mensagens e acabavam causando um transtorno, com o redmine, devido à sua facilidade de uso, ferramente muito intuitiva, permitiu a organização dos meus boards, comecei a separar as entregas em etapas e aumentou muito a minha produtividade. Ferramente muito boa!

Desvantagens:

Deveria ser visivelmente(layout) mais moderno, ter um visual mais agradável, mas não interfere negativamente.

Even if you use another tool, you have Redmine to thank

Comentários: Our marketing teams felt overwhelmed by the complexity if Jira. We just couldn't make it work. Redmine, however, with a set of agile plugins, allowed us to have a true kanban board and implement really robust scrum workflows using Redmine. It was a tremendous experience and really helps us tackle our weekly tasks.

Vantagens:

Being an open source project, Redmine has driven out the excess costs from project management and issue tracking software. Almost every other enterprise software project has to keep in mind that their customers can always choose a free and highly customizable read mine installation as an alternative, so Redmine makes the entire ecosystem more robust. What I really like the most is the low overhead for the server so that you can run a very large installation for hundreds or thousands of users on a low cost EC2 instance with extremely good performance. Checkout AWS LightSail if you want AWS specifically. If you're on a tight budget and want something implemented quickly, Redmine is the way to go. There are even hosted solutions out there like Plan.io that take away all the technical requirements for you.

Desvantagens:

Out of the box, you will need to get a better skin and probably customize a lot of the UI to make it look more visually appealing. The overall design a Redmine feels a little dated now, so you will need to download other themes or probably purchase a paid one to make it feel more modern and usable.

Versatility = Redmine as Bug Tracker/Project Manager

Comentários: Redmine is my de-facto BTS every company I go. I am very happy with its stability, versatility and easy to use for the end user.

Vantagens:

Redmine is a powerful Bug tracker system with such a flexibility that you can use it as your CMS if you want. There is a ton of plugins to install. You can use Redmine as a CRM, ERP, Payroll, etc... as long as the community around it can imagine a use case, it will exist. There are some paid services which customize Redmine to run as a full ERP, but I have no experience with them.

Desvantagens:

The installation process can be a pain for novices: You have to prepare your VM installing Ruby, then Ruby Gems and others gems to make advances functions to work. The source control system interface is good, but hard to install and configure. You will have better luck if you download a Bitnami VM or an AWS Appliance Image. There is a Docker image as wall, but I have no experience with it.

Very complete tool, with lots of customization. Lacks a little in the UI area

Comentários: I've been working with Redmine for almost 4 years for a particular project, as it was something the client asked for. Although we were never able to use the latest version of Redmine, we've updated a couple of times to more recent versions. I saw little to no change in the UI between those. There is a lot of room for improvement to make the tool more user-friendly. Nevertheless, Redmine has always proven it's worth where it excels. Project, Task and Time management are tasks completely assisted and boosted while using Redmine. Reporting gives you as much information as you need. Customization is very flexible and allows changes on several levels, either server, project or user-wise.

Vantagens:

Redmine offers a whole lot of features. Customization allows enabling or disabling them to adjust the tool to your needs. Project management features are quite handy when working with a team and you need to manage a schedule. Time management is also a very good feature to be aware how much effort you put into a particular task.

Desvantagens:

The interface is a little too "enterprisey", this means it's ability to show you as much information as possible makes it a little complex to see this information in a friendly manner. Editing information is also a little clunky and not very intuitive.