In my day job, we use Jira to manage our software development projects. For various things at home, I would also like to use a ticket system, And while I wholeheartedly hate Jira, compared to the open source alternatives I found, it is still the best system.
Is anyone aware of a good alternative that provides a good backlog view, a Kanban board, and the possibility to group tickets together in epics and sagas?
I use Vikunja for managing my personal things and Taiga for hobby projects. Both are amazing.
Thanks for sharing! I’ve already used Taiga, which is super cute, for Scrum, but didn’t know about Vikunja. Looks really cool for stuff that doesn’t warrant its own project.
Taiga looks interesting, I will give it a spin!
Wanted to look at Taiga a bit and then saw this:
That’s a no for me, dawg.
I mean, technically they could have hyper agile teams that use taiga there?
When they say agile they don’t mean that the company is flexible and adjusts to new situations quickly.
They mean that those companies are some of the most proficient in Agile software development methodology.
To be fair I see how people can get them confused. But in the context of work tracking they clearly mean the latter.
You can learn more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development
Look man I know what Agile is, and I can guarantee fucking Halliburton is not amongst the most Agile companies in software. I’ve worked for government contractors (not defense contractors, sorry, I like my soul right where it is). But even if they were, why the fuck would you advertise it as if it’s a great thing they’re using your software?
I agree that taiga shouldn’t feature Haliburton.
This all bearing said do you really think the people working on Taiga seek to be more evil and more terrible?
The people working on the software might not, but the pointy headed managers obviously are reaching for it, and in the end the people working on the software’s opinions don’t matter in the least.
For property software you would be right. Yah.
But it’s open source AGPL stuff. Full time devs improving AGPL code is good even with pointy haired managers.
This all being said I don’t think even the managers aim to become more evil and more terrible as their goal.