Task management software for transparent responsibilities and tracking of progress

Get your tasks and other issues done faster and with less stress.

Get your things done

Keep track of everything that is important in your project.

With OpenProject’s task management software you can easily create, assign and manage your work. As a project manager you stay always on top of the latest development. Make your teams work lives simpler, more productive, and more pleasant. OpenProject is the easiest way for teams to track their work – and get results.

Everybody knows the goals and works with the team to get there. Organize your own tasks and assign tasks to one of your teammates. With OpenProject you have all tasks and other issues and communication in one place.

Automatic work package subject generation

Standardize naming and streamline work package creation for your team

Automatically generated work package subjects help ensure consistent and structured naming across your projects. Define patterns for specific work package types like invoices or vacation requests to standardize titles and reduce manual input. This minimizes errors, saves time, and improves clarity for all team members. Subjects are created automatically based on your rules, helping you stay organized. Combined with filters and sorting, it enhances project visibility and streamlines your workflow.

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Task list

Create an overview and clear responsibilities for the whole team

The dynamic task list provides an overview of all the work that has to be completed. See the progress, who is working on which tasks and what tasks have an approaching deadline. Never lose track of any tasks or other issues in your projects. Display the list of open tasks and use filters to show critical issues. Prioritize and assign tasks to team members. Transition easily to project planning by activating the Gantt chart and setting dates as well as relationships between tasks.

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OpenProject as a web-based task management software makes it easy to keep everyone up to date. Comment on a work package, add emoji reactions and notify your team members by using @name. All activities around a work package are tracked and can be looked up by everyone.

Take it a step further for the team member who is involved more and assign this person as a watcher to a work package. The user will immediately get notified about all changes made to the work package.

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Use case: feature development

When developing new features and testing them before a release, you might uncover critical bugs. To make sure a feature isn’t closed before its related bugs are fixed, create a Blocked by relationship.
To get an overview of which bugs are blocking which features, filter for the features and add the Blocked by column to the Work Package table. This gives you a clear, compact view of features and their blockers. To see the specific bugs blocking a feature, just click the number shown in the Blocked by column — it will expand to show the list.

Display blocked-by relation for feature development

Use case: release management

When planning a new release, it is essential to see which work packages are part of it. Showing this is simple, just create an Includes relationship between the work packages in the release and the release itself. In the work package table, you will get a clear overview of what’s included in the release — and how much of it is already completed.

Use case: goal setting (OKRs)

Setting goals is crucial in project organizations. To track what needs to be completed to achieve a goal, create a children relationship to link tasks or key results to the goal.
This way, you’ll have a clear overview of the tasks that need to be completed in order to achieve the goal.

Display children relations for goal setting

Easily create bugs based on individual templates to save time and reduce errors. Specify, prioritize and assign bugs to the respective person and version to be fixed and follow up on the progress.

Additionally, the dynamic bug lists provide a detailed overview at any time. Filter and group based on your needs to create detailed bug reports for stakeholders.

Furthermore, integrate your full project management by activating Gantt charts, or prioritize your bugs in the agile boards.

You can attach documents to work packages with drag and drop or select the file from a folder and upload it to the work package. The files will show in the work package detail view in the files tab.

Besides that, OpenProject offers Nextcloud and OneDrive/SharePoint integration (Enterprise add-on) to manage your files. If you have a Nextcloud or a OneDrive account, you can link it to OpenProject. These integrations allow users to link files and folders in these storage platforms with work packages in OpenProject. This makes it possible to see all files related to a work package (in OpenProject) and all work packages related to a file (in Nextcloud or OneDrive/SharePoint).

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