Do you know a good alternative to JIRA in terms of configurability?

Posted by pawelniewie on Friday January 15, 2016 @08:53AM
from the self-post dept.

I'm looking for a project management tool that would allow us to have custom workflows, custom fields, workflow triggers + web hooks and some REST api.

We want to automate couple of processes we run at the company. JIRA is so complex and bloated and I wonder if there's anything competitive on the market.

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Re:Do you know a good alternative to JIRA in terms of config... by seanwilson on Friday January 15, 2016 @11:05AM (#10910092)

Can you give some examples of what you want to automate?

I found JIRA really clunky and overly complex. I much prefer Trello at the moment. It has fewer features but I find it is far faster and more intuitive to use. It does have web hooks and third party site integration but it depends what you want to do.

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Re:Do you know a good alternative to JIRA in terms of config... by pawelniewie on Friday January 15, 2016 @04:10PM (#10912177)

One of the things we would want to automate is incident handling the workflow includes things like sending SMS when the accident happens (plus email messages), connecting to a remote service to obtain accident details, up to a point of creating a summary with all the details from different system that would preferably go to some Confluence page. We handle it with JIRA currently with workflows + custom workflow functions + webhooks but it becomes harder and harder to maintain.

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Re:Do you know a good alternative to JIRA in terms of config... by sidcool on Sunday January 17, 2016 @01:16PM (#10920281)

Had anyone tried Mingle? https://www.thoughtworks.com/mingle/

I use it and it's quite good. Not free though.

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Re:Do you know a good alternative to JIRA in terms of config... by thomas-b on Friday January 15, 2016 @07:02PM (#10913299)

Phabricator can probably do all that through its event system (herald), but a few part of the CI (harbormaster) is partly a prototype application which makes the support/doc limited.

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Re:Do you know a good alternative to JIRA in terms of config... by hkelf on Friday January 15, 2016 @09:55AM (#10909623)

Tuleap (https://www.tuleap.org/) ?

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Re:Do you know a good alternative to JIRA in terms of config... by pawelniewie on Friday January 15, 2016 @04:14PM (#10912191)

Thanks but that seem to be a project management tool only, without any way to customize it (as far as the web site tells). I know there's source code available but I would prefer not to create a custom solution.

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Re:Do you know a good alternative to JIRA in terms of config... by vaceletm on Friday January 15, 2016 @06:12PM (#10912987)

It's a full featured ALM (incl. source management, CI, code review & all).

For the tracking part, everything is configurable trough the web UI and per project (contrary to Jira). You don't depend on a site admin to customize your templates, as project owner you are 100% to create as many tracker as you need with the layout you want.

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