Who uses Taiga?

[juanfran]

Hi Everyone!

The team behind Taiga would love to know about who's using Taiga. It could be our cloud service at taiga.io or a private instance behind your firewall. We work very hard to try to deliver a great open source agile project management tool that makes you love your projects and whenever we receive some kudos there's a round of high fives around here. Why not share your love of Taiga publicly?

You can write down your project or company, add a link or put a logo and, ideally, describe why or how you are using Taiga.

Thank you very much!

[johnsonc]

We're a small Python dev shop! We're just specc'ing out our projects WBS into the systems. We aim for it to be a ticketing system encompassing design, dev and issue resolution. We chose it because, we know the stack and can customize it and contribute back as well.

[allan-simon]

We are a team of ~15 dev inside a bigger company, we use taiga for our dev scrums and devops team. We use a locally setup instance

* I choose it because it was opensource
* it gets accepted by higher management because it was free ( #realpolitik )
* it gets accepted by the team because it was pretty, drag and drop, easy to grok UX

Right now we're looking to extend it to other team, but we're lacking a "bigger picture for the higher management" kind of dashboard (but there's already tickets for that on your side :) ), and I personnaly hope we can find a way to convince higher management to rather gives money to you to accelerate the development of features that fits our "big corp made of a lot of small teams" needs

the things that will improve our day to day experience and make the small criticism here and there goes quiet:

technical side:

* get the "git" hooks look like github/jira hooks "with simply  `re #xxx` / `close #xxxx` "
* have a debian package, or something that makes upgrading as simple as gitlab's `apt-get update && apt-get upgrade`

UX side:

• have optionnally points on Task , that if set, adds up to be the point of the user story, it will permit us not to have to artifically split user story in "one user story = 3~4 tasks max" to have the burndown chart goes down smoothly (otherwise it's like from day one to nearly last day 0% , and last day 95% because the final last tasks goes to 'complete' )
• on the taskboard being able to filter by user, so that when we do our daily in front of the LCD screen, we can easily see the tasks of the one speaking

once again thanks for the great job , and ever more thank you to have put all your hardwork opensource !

[bentinata]

We're mobile apps/internet of things developer. We choose Taiga mostly because:

• Sleek design, people can't deal with JIRA or Redmine.
• Could be costumized.
• Partly because it's green by default. I love green! 💚

[StephanZaat]

We use it at the City of Amsterdam for a team of 15 front/backend developers and 10 people who do data analysis and project preparation/management.

The city has a site license for Jira, but it is only accessible via the intranet, which none of us have access to with our BYOD. We initially used Jira, but the pricing got a bit out of hand and mostly due to its lack of open-source we looked for an alternative. We need a tool that does both kanban and sprints, so when Taiga hit the radar we switched pretty quickly, despite some shortcomings to Jira.

We are developing open-source APIs and a pretty cool google-maps like interface which provide government data (geospatial, chamber of commerce, panorama's, aerial photos, statistics, etc) to the folks at the city and to the public. The ambition is high, the team is still growing. We are now also providing Taiga projects to other teams. Total users is around 50. See our services / Github etc: at: https://api.datapunt.amsterdam.nl/api/ The frontend will be publicly available in about a month.

We are hosting locally for almost a year now and everyone seems to be generally quite happy.

[rwojsznis]

Hi!

So, at Positionly we tried few project management software over the years, starting from JIRA (configuration hell), then Asana (was too limited) then we stayed for a longer while with Breeze (simple, slick ui and was great for kanban - and kanban only).

Few months ago I was researching open-source alternatives as we started self-hosting in-house some tools anyway. Plus we wanted something that could work well for Dev team (weekly sprints), Custom Success (reporting bugs & issues, separate projects based on kanban) & the rest of the company (mostly simple dedicated kanban projects).

At the moment we have 5 different projects in taiga and 22 people in total working on those projects. Everyone in general is quite happy with it I think. I must agree with @allan-simon that optional task-points would be probably a good idea, but at the same time I'm hoping that epics introduced in 3.0 (impressive release btw!) will partially solve that issue tho :).

Thanks for awesome piece of software! <3

[kikofernandez]

Hi,

we use it at Uppsala University in the course Soft.Engineering, to teach students about Scrum. We transitioned from Trello to Taiga and I think that the students are happy about it. I really like the front-end interface, being able to add new fields on demand, the burndown chart (AWESOME!) and it gets the job done!

Apart from that, I use it for my PhD studies: I am working on building a new parallel programming language and I need to keep track of new features to add, bugfixes, reading papers, etc. In general, I use it for the programming language that we are developing and for keeping track of other tasks related to my PhD studies.

[ahmadjd94]

Hi we are a team of 2 PhD professors and 1 bachelor student we are making a project managment workshop at princess sumaya for technology in jordan-amman for bachelor students we will be using Taiga as a main tool for project management along with some VCS and i have been using it for managing my own graduation project and absolutely loved every part of it thank you

[JekoTronik]

I'm french, live near Paris. I got corporate instance behind firewall, public and private instance at tree.taiga.io. I use it for my own todolists and projects with friends. I used Taiga in my last job with a team of 10 engineers in industry (hardware startup). We (and I) choose it because it is fun, sexy and do the job ! The taskboard just display the workflow of the workshop so perfectly ! And we were able to extract and analyse data from it to improve ourselves.

P.S : Can't wait to see your work about Epics inside Taiga, it was a point which gave to us a lot of constraints because of the large skillsets involved : electronics, mecanics, informatics...

[bameda]

@JekoTronik epics was included in the last release and you can see an example here: https://tree.taiga.io/project/the-princess-bride/epics

[JekoTronik]

Wow, one more thing why I choose Taiga ! If the comunity needs it, you do it ! Thank you :)

[patronvectras]

I just picked up Taiga (cloud, private) to start tackling simple project management at work.

Chose taiga because: It didn't require hosting a database on my workstation, is free, can be very fast, and uses full-screened graphic visualization.

I like the kanban view the best, and was avoiding using epics because it was less graphic, but there was too little room below story level. I can more easily access epics and stories than tasks. So now I am settling in with Top-level projects as epics, tasks and phases as stories, and will probably not be using the task level at all. Taiga seems to be oriented very much toward a manager and employee aspect than just a single man putting things in so he doesn't lose track of them. If I become head of the dept on day it would work more flawlessly.

If I could get rid of the numbers that accompany every story, it would be less cluttered. I don't use them. We have a seven-digit project number for both the two top levels of projects. KCW#s and WR#s. There can be multiple WR#s in a KCW#, but only very rarely will multiple KCW#s merely relate to each other (for which tags would work).

If I could have two kanban levels, I think I would be very happy. One for KCW#s and one for WR#s. Never coded much before. As I move WR#s along the lower-level kanban, they would "progress" - instead of clicking a drop-down menu. I think it would flow better.

I've only been aware of the program for two days, so we'll see if I feel the same way in a few weeks!

[jerem-ie]

Hi,

I work for an French educational non profit Organisation.
We intend to use Taiga.io for tracking what we do and sharing / balancing work load between teams and people on our private taiga instance. After 2 month testing taiga, we are ready to use it and a first team of twelve people ( non dev people ) will use it every day. Later, the whole team ( 40 people, 130 volunteer and occasional employees ) will use it.

_Our teams / projects :_ We need to be very flexible and have a lot of teams, ( every employee can be on 2, 3 or 4 team / project ). We also work on a delegation basis ( today, we reach 135 users registered in our instance, 100 of them with fake email to track what they do but can't be included for privacy reason - sse below ). All our project are private, except 1 or 2 future projects where we will track volunteer task.

**Our workflow : ** Now, we use 2 projects for tracking everyday work on a flow type. The first one in a yearly basis where we track our 130 US - activities. Filtering, delegation and status is the most used part. After that, we use tasks for tracking what is done and what we have to do, comments, and description. We don't use the points( not enough flexible), neither the sprints. The second one where we track volunteer needs, abilities and availability (each active volunteer as an open User Story ).

Later this year, with the other teams arrival, the teams will move from Trello to taiga, and use 1 project per team ( area project ). We intend to use EPICs and Kanban for that.

**What we need ** Today, i see 2 or 3 ways of improvement :

• Trello import, groups or multiple assignments, grouped notification ( an user should be able to choose to group notifications on a time basis ), search in the custom fields,
• A group system : users are assigned to a group in the taiga admin, and the project right management based on a group and user basis.
• a third parameter in the role management, if involved , where people can only see the user story where they are involved in. ( this will solve one of our major issue with taiga. )
• a geo custom field ( real life project use geo as you use url/uri on internet ).
• a mockup US, task and ticket, with pre formatted content for better US reporting.
• A user TaskBoard. ...

thanks, jérémie

[Xaviju]

@jerem-ie

• Trello import Is under active development

About the others, would you please write to [email protected] and explain a bit more the enhancement so we can add it to our enhancement list or you can add it yourself

[hamoid]

I'm an artist and creative coder. I just started using Taiga for organizing my freelance projects. Until now I used PlanBox. Taiga looks much better and feels very much faster.

I'm suggesting our art collective (http://lacunalab.org) to use Taiga as a Trello replacement but in our group some are concerned about using open source solutions. They worry about there being no one in our group who can maintain them in the future, or about solutions running out of funds and stop being supported.

I'm happy about Taiga being open source AND working better than some closed commercial alternatives.

[eaposner]

Hi.

Thanks for your note. I would encourage you to think of open source tools differently -- the fact that the tool is open and that programmers from various countries actually collaborate to improve the tool. As it is now the company the owns Taiga is profitable.

Thank you,

Enrique

On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 12:02 PM, Abe Pazos [email protected] wrote:

I'm an artist and creative coder. I just started using Taiga for organizing my freelance projects. Until now I used PlanBox. Taiga looks much better and feels very much faster.

I'm suggesting our art collective (http://lacunalab.org) to use Taiga as a Trello replacement but in our group some are concerned about using open source solutions. They worry about there being no one in our group who can maintain them in the future, or about solutions running out of funds and stop being supported.

I'm happy about Taiga being open source AND working better than some closed commercial alternatives.

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[mpech]

Why not share your love of Taiga publicly?

I was seduced by taiga for:

++ its quickness ++ it being opensource and free ++ its available customization regarding task statuses ++ the agile/kanban options although we will -a priori- exclusively use the agile one

++ We are hosting taiga ourselves, and so far the installation was easily done thanks to the proper documentation.

At Citylity, we migrated from pivotal to taiga (today) and I intend us (~10 people) to stick with it for a little while.

A few negative points: Bluntly said (because negative comments often bring more than positive ones...) two points noted by my teammates:

-- When listing my tasks in my backlog, the count for a given tag reflects all the tasks from day 0. However if I filter with the given tag, I wont see my tasks (if they were put in some closed sprint) which is counter intuitive

-- When hovering on my profile, the menu appears but as soon as I mouseout the link to my profile to go onto my menu, the menu disappears. There are plenty workaround but it still gives --credibility for a first try

I don't know if bugs have already been opened but as a feedback exp I think those are the very first things which popup so might as well be raised here.

--Finally the repulsing thing for migrating to taiga in my eyes is the difficulty to migrate from an existing tool to there: no automation already available.

++The api to create task is super easy and it helps --a lot-- to import some external tasks to taiga and it should be put more in front.

We were forced to write our own importer (from pivotal) [email protected]:happyfreemo69/pt2taiga.git which sucks and it would be truly amazing if you could propose an official importer we could rely one instead of a crafty one...

Overall, thx for the good job and wish you all the best

[mikaoelitiana]

Our team at Tag-IP (http://www.tag-ip.com) uses Taiga for more than a year now and we are really happy with it. Thanks guys!

[OpenNingia]

We are a team of ~5 dev inside a bigger company, we use Taiga as Kanban board for our projects.

We tried using the Scrum template but did not fit the company vision ( no workload management, no time tracking, lacking background charts etc... ), and because of that Taiga wasn't accepted as company tool.

However the Kanban board is fine and being a small team we're able to manage ourselves quite well.

[redotics]

Hi everyone,

We are using it at the European Space Agency, at the operations center. It is life changing ! and a perfect tool to introduce my colleagues to Agile Development.

We just have a litltle problem in Firefox, the "+ New Member" action on any project shows an empty modal with only the closing cross and the title "New Member". (tested with the stable and master branches in frontend and backend). So for now we use other browsers to invite new members.

Big space hugs

[Xaviju]

Hi @redsharpbyte I'll test it with firefox to ensure that no space agency member is left out of a project because of Taiga. Thanks for reporting and thanks for being part of the community. Big space hugs back.

[audreytoskin]

I've been using Taiga as a personal task manager, rather than as a team project manager, and a lot of the work I track has nothing to do with software, so some features I have to just kind of ignore. It still works great! Even if, as noted in the front-end issue #1211, some of the terminology starts to seem a little weird for my use case...

I was first drawn to the beautiful UI design, and the fact that it's open source. I stayed with Taiga because I like the workflow, the data structures, the organization... The epic / user story / task hierarchy, and assigning them to sprints, makes it easy to show the relationship between TODOs. Tags makes it easier to sort things topically. The nonbinary status of "stories" and tasks adds nuance to the idea of completeness which simpler checkbox-style task managers lack. This also helps reinforce the fact that I'm making progress on something, even if it is not yet complete. And the kanban, backlog, and taskboard offer usefully different ways of visualizing all the work there is to do, showing you different levels of the hierarchy. I always enable both scrum and kanban for every Taiga project I create.

[santosamorim]

Hi we are using Taiga to support agile process in Brazilian post office. We have a private instance of Taiga. https://www.correios.com.br/english/the-brazil-post/who-we-are

[yomguy]

I have setup an instance at IRCAM in Paris and we use it for dozens of projects. We love it especially involving non-tech people to projects. Thank you very much! Hope to participate to some feature development soon ;)

https://www.ircam.fr https://taiga.ircam.fr

[beckerpascal]

We are using a self-hosted version of taiga for tracking todos in some kind of kanban-style internally for industrial and research projects.

Thanks for the awesome work! \o/

[benyanke]

We are using a selfhosted instance of Taiga. It runs on benyanke/docker-taiga, via Docker Compose.

We have a number of uses internally:

1. Managing several software development projects - more or less using it as it's intended
2. Managing our IT project list for our IT team - a bit out of the ordinary, but it works exceedingly well, especially given that we can assign individual tasks in a US to individual staff members as part of a larger project.

Our only pain points so far for the second usecase have been:

1. Finding a way to fit things into 'sprints'. We accomplished this by setting up yearly "sprints." This allows us to use the organizational tools associated with sprints, but without needing to over organize things and try and fit projects which don't fit in that timeframe. This lead to some interesting edge cases (for example: taigaio/taiga-front#1482), but overall, it works well enough.

2. Group membership - it would be great to be able to add members to a group even though they've just been invited but not logged in. This would allow us to invite a new team members to a project, and start assigning them tasks before their first login.

3. Administration - it would be nice to have even a minimal interface (not in the django admin - which doesn't play nicely with the LDAP plugin we use for auth) to see and accomplish tasks on other projects running on the instance. Currently, without going into the django admin (not the most friendly) or the DB (also not friendly), there's no way to see other user's projects, reset passwords for users, etc.

All these complaints are on the minor-side though. As a whole the project is excellent.

[shwaydogg]

Any tips or resources for using Taiga, for non-software development teams?

[MirzayevFarid]

• We’re using Taiga at Radity

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• https://radity.com

• Radity develops digital products and build web and mobile applications (20 Team members)

Thanks for such an amazing work!

[tolunayakbulut]

Hi everyone,

We are using it at the Global CTO Forum. Global CTO Forum connects world's leading CTOs and technology stakeholders. The Global CTO Forum (GCF) is a global independent organisation for Technology leaders and executives including CTOs, CIOs and Architects around the globe to come together and help its members succeed as well as give back to the society.