TeamGantt vs OpenProject: Which is a better fit?

Sam A.: Hi, my name's Sam. I'm a senior project manager in IT, and I give TeamGantt five out of five. And for more reviews like this, click below. Before using TeamGantt, we were using a mixture of Trello and then old school, Microsoft Excel for our timelines and [inaudible 00:00:20] charts. And that just was out of date and it wasn't working for us. Hence, the move to TeamGantt. Part of my role here was to do an extensive review of different options. And I took a good month to test and trial run different options for our project management. And I settled on TeamGantt because it's affordable, it's got a beautiful user interface, really colorful and clean, good use of the real estate on the screen. And it had a lot of settings and features, but they weren't cluttered. It was just a simple pleasure to use and really scalable and shareable for my team. So the onboarding was quick. So onboarding was really easy. I ran a few training sessions for my team and gave them all individual login so they could play around and get used to the features before we fully adopted it as a company and TeamGantt's customer service team were on call. We didn't really need them because it was so simple, but they have some built in training videos that was useful and it was helpful to know they were there when I did have one or two questions. So if you are looking for some project management software timeline, like TeamGantt, I recommend considering your scale, how many users do you want access and what level of authority and permissions? So in our case, we only needed two full access for authorization accounts and the rest of view only. And that might work for you, it might not, so you need to consider how many seats you're going to pay for in the account system and affordability with the features.

Jacob: Hi, my name is Jacob, and I am the chapter administrator for LANFest Colorado. We are a roughly 500 person strong company and we use OpenProject a lot, so I'm going to give it a five. So, before OpenProject, we were actually utilizing a variety of things, the most mundane of which was email, sending emails back and forth, trying to collaborate on projects. We then switched to Google Drive, but that just didn't quite do what we needed to. Myself as the chapter administrator, I needed to see the overall view of the entire project and what was going on, and Google Drive just did not allow me to do that. Some of the reasons that we chose OpenProject were fairly simple. One, because of the fact that it's open-source and can be deployed on your own host, it's free if you have the infrastructure. So we were able to deploy it that way, compared to other services which charge a significant amount. Us being a 501(c)(3) charity, we try to cut costs wherever we can. So it certainly was a easy decision. Additionally, it had features that we did not have using Google Drive. Again, that overarching view of the entire project, the ability for me to assign tasks to people rather than it just being on a spreadsheet. Getting started with OpenProject wasn't, admittedly, the easiest at first. I am not a Linux person. I am a Windows Systems Administrator in my normal life. So getting some of the HTTPS set up, and things like that, did take a little bit of technical knowhow. However, because of the nature of my team and what it is that we do, I have people that can do that. So I did outsource it to other employees and we managed to get it up and running very quickly. If you're considering getting OpenProject, there's a few things I would recommend you do first. First and foremost, do you need it? And I'm not saying that OpenProject is not necessary, but it is definitely a learning curve. It is definitely a very large time investment to learn how to use the software. If you only have a small team, five people, maybe this isn't the software for you. But as you start to scale, as you start to get bigger and bigger with your projects, this is definitely something you need. And of course, if it's cost related, if you're worried about costs or anything like that, if you can self-deploy this, it is relatively easy and, of course, free.