Project Management: Team Planning Using OpenProject 12.1.0

OpenProject introduced the new version 12.1.0 of the project management suite of the same name. Thus, the open source software receives a team planning module in the paid enterprise version. In the free community edition, the provider unlocks the basic functions of Agile panels.

Conveniently assign tasks in the team

The new team chart module defines the tasks assigned to individual team members in a type of Gantt chart in the calendar view. This should allow the team’s workload to be visualized at a glance during a weekly or biweekly period. Items can be reset using drag and drop. If team members are working on multiple projects at the same time, their tasks can also be viewed in Team Planner so that project managers can monitor actual dependencies at all times.

Users of the community edition of OpenProject can now also use a base variant of agile panels for the first time. This allows items to be sorted into columns similar to a Kanban board, but without introducing real Kanban functionality such as Work in Progress (WIP) boundaries. Item state changes when moving from one column to another are also not passed to the base package in the community edition. Advanced panel functionality remains reserved for the paid enterprise version of OpenProject.

Work simplification and bug fixes

As expected, OpenProject also introduces a number of small improvements and bug fixes with the new version, making it easier for users to use the project management software. Among other things, any projects can now be integrated into the new work item dashboards, calendars and team schema using filters, there are new global roles with the option to set up superuser groups, or additional project states such as Not Started, Finished and Stopped.

Those interested can get a full overview of all additions, changes, and bug fixes in the official release notes.

OpenProject 12.1.0 is now available, either on premises (community and enterprise edition) or as a cloud edition (enterprise edition only). The software is licensed under GPLv3 and supports both classic and agile project management. The free community edition can be installed via .deb and .deb packages. rpm in addition to Docker images.