What is BetterMeans?
BetterMeans is an open-source alternative to proprietary project management tools like Jira and Asana. It is designed for agile teams who want a flexible and customizable solution to plan, track, and manage work.
Some key features of BetterMeans include:
- Kanban boards to visualize work and limit work-in-progress
- Customizable workflows for different team processes
- Issue and bug tracking with statuses, assignments, comments, attachments
- Product and sprint backlogs for agile planning
- Time tracking to analyze capacity and estimate future work
- Wiki pages and rich text documentation
- Reports and dashboards to identify trends and bottlenecks
As an open source tool, BetterMeans offers more transparency, flexibility, and ownership compared to closed proprietary tools. Teams can easily customize fields, workflows, boards, and reports to match their processes. Developer teams may also contribute to the open source code base.
BetterMeans is written in Ruby on Rails and released under the MIT license. It can be self-hosted on your own servers or used through their cloud offering. They offer a free 30-day trial to test out the product.
Trello, Redmine, ClickUp, Zenkit, ClockingIT, ActiveCollab, TaskBoard, buckets.co, Restyaboard, ONLYOFFICE Projects, Pivotal Tracker are some alternatives to BetterMeans.