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Gotta find them all: The creature cards hunt at our OpenProject offsite
What happens when you hide little NFC creatures all over an offsite? People start talking, teaming up, and hunting together, even at night using flashlight.…
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Open Source Migrations
OpenProject: The open source alternative to Jira
Jira is a well-known agile project management tool and a household name for issue tracking. However, Jira is proprietary software, while OpenProject is open source.…
Company
Passion Time 2026: Two weeks to turn ideas into something real
It’s Passion Time at OpenProject! For two weeks, we put our regular work aside and make room for something different: ideas that people on our team have wanted to explore, improve or build – but that don…
Migrations Features
OpenProject vs. Jira: Let’s compare features
When migrating from Jira to OpenProject, can our teams still do what they need to do? This is one of the most important questions we need and want to answer. While the best way to evaluate this is to look…
Features Migrations
News from the Product Desk: Project-specific workflows and forms for work package types and their variants
If you administrate Jira today, a good part of your week might go into using schemes in order to create new projects or maintain projects. Which issue types exist in a project, which workflow each one…
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OpenProject and bitcrowd join forces to strengthen open source project management and Jira migrations
We are very excited to share some great news: bitcrowd is joining forces with OpenProject.…
Migrations
News from the product desk: Migrating ScriptRunner for Jira Data Center to OpenProject
Many organisations moving from Jira Data Center to OpenProject ask the same question: what happens to our ScriptRunner scripts? There is no short answer. ScriptRunner is not one feature but a whole toolbox…
Releases
Date alerts are now available in the OpenProject Community edition
With OpenProject 17.9, we are making another useful feature available to everyone: Date alerts are now part of the free OpenProject Community edition. 🎉…
Releases
OpenProject 17.9: Create work packages directly from Documents
OpenProject 17.9 makes it easier for users to turn ideas into actionable tasks. You can now create work packages directly from the Documents module. This version also offers helpful search and filter options…
Learning
How does it work in OpenProject? Lessons from our live Q&A webinar
In our recent live OpenProject demo and Q&A, you asked us about everything from resource and portfolio management to migration, integrations, wikis and permissions. We were happy to see that we could answer…
Company
Choosing OpenProject twice: Why employees come back
Every now and then, we hear a familiar kind of announcement in our weekly company meeting: Someone is joining OpenProject, except they aren’t actually entirely new. They worked with us before and have…
Cases
Training the next generation of IT specialists: Using OpenProject at the Gutjahr Vocational School
The best way to understand project management is to do it. That is the idea behind how the Vocational School Gutjahr in Halle (Saale) trains the next generation of IT specialists. As a school and IT competence…
Releases
OpenProject integration app for Nextcloud released in versions 3.2.0 and 2.12.0
We’re pleased to announce the release of OpenProject integration app versions 3.2.0 and 2.12.0 for Nextcloud!…
Releases
OpenProject 17.8: Create and update with AI in OpenProject (Enterprise add-on)
OpenProject 17.8 takes the next step in connecting AI assistants with your project work. The MCP Server introduced in OpenProject 17.2 can now create and update work packages, add comments, and manage…
Migrations
Why OpenProject is better than Jira
You know it’s the right decision, but having to leave Jira may not feel like good news at first. Just like switching jobs, you will learn a lot in the process, and get the chance not just to recreate what…
Features Migrations
News from the Product Desk: The future of agile reporting in OpenProject
High-performing agile teams do not just deliver work, they reflect on it. That habit of stopping after every sprint to ask what went well, what did not, and what should we change is the heartbeat of continuous…
Cases Open Source Migrations
OpenProject: Open Source Jira Cloud Alternative
Atlassian Cloud customers are facing significant changes. Following the introduction of a new AI data contribution policy in August 2026, Atlassian increased its Cloud subscription prices on October 13…
Releases
OpenProject 17.7: Resource management and better team organization
We are excited to announce the release of OpenProject 17.7. This version introduces the new Resource management module (Enterprise add-on), enabling organizations to plan resources, allocate work, and…