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Best 6 Alternatives to Jira Service Desk

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  Self-hosted, light, affordable, scrum tool, agile tool ZenTao Freemium     Windows   Linux   Web   Android   Self-Hosted   Website  ZenTao is an open source project management tool, supporting Scrum. It integrates product management, project management, bug management and QA management, etc., covering all lifecycle of software development. Restyaboard Freemium     Linux   Web   Self-Hosted   Website  Open source Trello-like kanban board. Based on Restya platform. Kanboard Free     Web   Self-Hosted   Cloudron   Website  Kanboard is a simple visual task board software. Kanboard is a free and open source Kanban project management software. There is no fancy user interface, Kanboard focus on simplicity and minimalism. The number of features is voluntary limited. Visualize your work Limit your work in progress to focus on your goal Drag and drop tasks to manage your project Self-hosted Super simple installation OpenProject Freemium     Web   Self-Hosted   Ruby   Cloudron   Website  OpenP

Causes of Scope Creep and How to prevent Scope Creep

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What is Scope Creep? Simply put, scope creep is when a project's requirements, goals, and vision changes go overwhleming what was originally agreed upon.While it comes up, the project will not be clearly defined anymore, even the reponsiblities becomes uncertain. It might be just sligt things added again and again, and you will just realize there are so more items you need to complete.                                                                       source Scope creep can be caused by: poor user story change control without further review lack of proper initial identification of what is required to bring about the project objectives project manager or executive sponsor not capable or strong enough lack of communications between multiple parties initial product versatility shortage How can you prevent scope creep? For starters, let us just say that scope changes aren’t something you should avoid at all costs. If you work in an agile environment, then you’re probably expecting c

Alternatives to Jira in 2021 for Self-Hosted

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  When talking about project management tools, Jira almost comes to 1st all the time. But since Jira did prononce that there will be no more Jira Service Desk, it's such a headache for many teams especially they just want to locate their data on their own. And there are so many other numberous reasons, like product integration or leveragin Apps that only work on Servers ( Such as Insight Discovery ). Actually, there are many other agile management tools as alternatives to Jira you could try with. We will compare in features among the most popular ones to help you choose the best for you. And In this list, they are all  Agile tool ( or Scrum tool ) Self-hosted ZenTao  ZenTao  is an open-source project management scrum tool. While Jira using issue tracking, ZenTao is using story and bug to track issues. It's a very brilliant idea for application lifecycle management which you could track them with most transparencies. ZenTao Open Source version is completely free, but some functi