Basic lightweight project management and issue tracking tool for non-agile projects
November 05, 2019
Basic lightweight project management and issue tracking tool for non-agile projects
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Redmine
Our small web development team uses Redmine for project management and issue tracking for various small-medium projects.
- Basic, lightweight project management tool with issue tracking, wiki, Gantt charts, calendars, and document/file storage, etc.
- Flexible hosting options. You can host it yourself on your own web server for free or pay to have it hosted as a software-as-a-service.
- The design and user-interface are a little outdated. It looks like a product that was designed ten years ago and doesn't have a polished look and feel like newer apps have.
- It's not particularly designed to support agile-based project management methodologies such as Scrum.
- Redmine was a great improvement over using email and shared spreadsheets to manage bug/issue tracking for our software projects. It made it easy for anyone to look up the status of various issues and track the project's progress.
- It's been a critical tool for team collaboration and issue tracking on a project with remotely located team members.
As we've moved to using agile-based methodologies, we've started using JIRA more, which is better suited for agile development. JIRA looks and feels like a more modern web application and has greater flexibility and more features. I used Basecamp a long time ago for some small personal projects. As such, my experience isn't directly comparable, but as I recall it had fairly similar features.
Do you think Redmine delivers good value for the price?
Not sure
Are you happy with Redmine's feature set?
No
Did Redmine live up to sales and marketing promises?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of Redmine go as expected?
I wasn't involved with the implementation phase
Would you buy Redmine again?
No