Project management software solutions have witnessed a significant hike in recent times. Companies, businesses, individual users – all are seen using and getting benefits from one or more project management platforms. These platforms not only provide a solution for managing tasks, the daily reminders, meetings, minutes of the meeting, trackers, and a variety of such other features come incorporated in these platforms. Thereby providing users a single platform to manage and take care of all their tasks and reminders related concerns. The project management software solutions have also seen an upsurge in the times of COVID as keeping track of different office tasks in absence of managers and colleagues, becomes a way too tricky and tedious activity. Project management solutions replace that absence by giving reminders and keeping track of tasks which help better manage different activities.
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In this context, we shall look into a few free, open-source, and cross-platform compatible project management solutions.
Released in 2012, the efficient project management solution comes under the GNU license. The free, open-source, and cross-platform compatible solution incorporates a number of efficient features enabling users across the globe. Some of these features include bug tracking allowing a user to track progress, document and file management, forum, project news, project timelines, and deadline tracking, issue tracking or issue management, project management and milestones, time tracking, Wiki pages, and the list goes on. OpenProject offers different pricing and packages for individuals and organizations. However, the community version of the software comes free of cost and comes equipped with a vast list of enhanced features and capabilities.
Get it now from https://www.openproject.org/download-and-installation/
TaskJuggler is another free, open-source, and cross-platform compatible project management solution that allows users access to the most enhanced, advanced, and stable project management features. The list of features mainly includes the platform’s capability to get easily integrated and installed on all the leading OS, efficient features for planning, team collaboration on tasks and activities, set and achieve goals, enhanced support for numerous time-zones, error-free cost calculation, and cost handling, seamless task management and resource handling, intuitive and user-friendly task, to-do list manager, detailed reference manual, ability to integrate with the Vim text editor, etc.
Get it now from https://taskjuggler.org/download.html
ProjectLibre is an organized, most interactive, and efficient tool for seamlessly handling and managing project management-related tasks and activities. The free, open-source, and cross-platform compatible project management tool comes under the Common Public Attribution license. The tool enables users to perform a list of advanced features such as the platform offers compatibility with Microsoft Project that enables users across both the platforms, import and export capabilities, Gantt charts, network diagrams, work breakdown structure charts, resource breakdown structure charts, value costing, resource histograms, facility to set dependencies, allows users to seamlessly create and design project baselines, allocate resources and define work, comes equipped with powerful reporting and analysis functionality, etc.
Get it now from https://sourceforge.net/projects/projectlibre/
Released in 2006, Redmine project management solution is offering its services for 15 years to its users across the globe. The free, open-source, and cross-platform compatible solution comes under the GNU license. The list of advanced features offered by the platform include the platform’s ability to track multiple projects, flexible role-based access control capability, includes an issue tracking system, features a Gantt chart and calendar, integrates news, files, and documents management tool, allows web feeds and e-mail notifications, supports a per-project wiki and per-project forums, allows simple time tracking, includes custom fields for issues, projects, time-entries, and users, supports a range of SCM integration, supports multiple LDAP authentication, allows user self-registration, supports 49 languages, allows multiple databases, allows for plugins, provides a REST API and the list goes on.
Get it now from https://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/Download
Toggl Plan is one of the most efficient and enhanced platforms for seamlessly handling and managing project management-related tasks and activities. The software is one of the most acclaimed and highly adapted by many across the world. The free, open-source, and cross-platform compatible solution comes as a desktop application and as a web-based solution as well. The features provided and incorporated in the platform mainly include the platform’s ability to create and manage team timelines and collaborate with the team on them, drag-and-drop feature to assign tasks, long-term plans handling and management, capability to easily edit and add tasks, keep track of the status, flexible planning, communicate the progress, fits any fast-paced workflow, does not demand a lot of input, offers the best visual understanding of deadlines, project plans, timelines, and progress
Once signed up, download the desktop application now from https://toggl.com/track/toggl-desktop/
Taiga is another free and open-source project management tool enabling a number of users across the globe. The platform is a web-based solution that comes equipped with a list of enhanced project management services and capabilities. The features offered in the free or basic version of the platform include customizable kanban boards, room for multiple swim lanes, scrum capabilities, backlogs, epic planning, burn-down charts, sprints, and task boards, customizable bug and issue tracking, filter options for kanban boards and issue tracking, team performance dashboard, real-time reporting and analysis, user roles and permissions, etc.
Sign up for the basic version of the software now from https://www.taiga.io/basicsignup
TargetProcess is a free and open-source project management solution. The project management tool is a web-based platform, however, users can get their hands on different plugins that can be downloaded and integrated with Visual Studio, etc. The platform offers a list of enhanced project management features and capabilities such as the ability to quickly plan, identify and track issues, provide a platform enabling users to work using their custom process, providing one platform to have all user's work managed at, ability to collaborate and communicate with the team member from within the software, create custom views, customized graphical reports, performance forecasts, clutter-less visibility, etc.
Get it now from https://www.targetprocess.com/downloads/
Enabling software engineers and developers across the globe since 2014, GitLab is a comprehensive platform that also provides project management facilities and capabilities. The free, open-source, and cross-platform compatible desktop project management platform offers a list of features to its users. The features include its ability to handle and manage agile planning, version control, code review, rime tracking, wiki-based project documentation, multi-cloud CI/CD, security and monitoring, etc. The platform enables users across many platforms and provides a platform capable of seamlessly handling tasks and activities related to software project development. The active community across the globe actively contributes and enhances the platform's capabilities and list of services and features.
Register a free account and get started now from https://gitlab.com/users/sign_up
This article covers the best open-source, and cross-platform compatible available project management tools (OpenProject, TaskJuggler, ProjectLibre, Redmine, Toggl Plan, Taiga, TargetProcess, and GitLab). Project management tools are a demand of every software house, business, and for individuals as well. They are all capable of seamlessly managing, handling, and responding to the everyday demand and needs of the users and people working in teams.
