OpenProject: A Review of the Latest Features and Innovations

Wieland Lindenthal - Co-founder and CTO of OpenProject
OpenProject.org · @w.lindenthal:openproject.org · @wielinde@fosstodon.org

OpenProject is a collaborative project management system

Gaining momentum: Team growth required a new organization

  • 13 brilliant people added to the team.
  • 10+ product dev streams created, focussing on strategic topics.
  • Monthly releases enabled steady feature pipeline.
  • Agile response to user feedback, shaping the product based on real needs.
  • Delivering features in smaller steps, eliminating long waits for major releases.
  • openDesk was released, hungry for deep integrations.

Product Dev Streams
each having its own roadmap

  • Project Portfolio Management
  • Planning and Reporting
  • Document Workflows
  • Meetings
  • Communicator
  • Seamless Cross Application User Integration
  • Design System Components
  • Mobile App
  • ...

Project Portfolio Management
Favorite projects

Project Portfolio Management
Project attributes

Project Portfolio Management
Filter, save and share project lists

Document Workflows OneDrive/SharePoint integration

  • Similar to the Nextcloud integration
  • Link files to work packages
  • Manage access permissions to files via project roles
  • Allow complex project templates with files

Meetings Bring your questions to a meeting

Meetings Bring your questions to the next Jour fixe

Planning and Reporting Overdue fixing of work effort and progress calculations

Planning and Reporting Add a lag to Predecessor/Successor relations

Planning and Reporting PDF exports for Gantt charts

Communicator Real time comments and EMOJI reactions

Reminders When do you want to get notified?

GitLab Integration Joining code with project management

Design System Components High contrast mode for great accessability

Dark Mode ...finally

And 2025?

Mobile App
Currently in internal alpha

Seamless Cross Application User Integration
Supporting Standards: OAuth 2 Token Exchange and SCIM


Seamless Cross Application User Integration
XWiki Inegration: The Jira and Confluence alternative


Integrated we are stronger

Wieland Lindenthal - Co-founder and CTO of OpenProject
OpenProject.org · @w.lindenthal:openproject.org · @wielinde@fosstodon.org