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Question in good faith here. We are heavily hooked on redmine, having closed over 70k issues there over the last 14 years. I see that this thing has redmine integration.

Will it do us any good? What kind of good?

I'm struggling to understand this, and gantt charts never found much use with us, we always fall back to simple milestone based versions to manage when we do what.

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I have used TaskJuggler alot in the past, however that was more in a waterfall developement where we needed to plan the whole project over 6 months to 3 years, For agile I have not really used it, a SCRUM/Other board tends to fit better. But I still really like TaskJuggler

Same here, it's very useful for waterfall scenarios but I've never used it for agile planning and I'm not sure it would have a place in that kind of workflow.

Also, for medium-sized projects and up I've found its planning heuristics some times produce pretty bad plans (in terms of deadlines and resource utilization), and you have to guide it towards a better solution, by adding artificial constraints.

But having a project plan that I can express in the form of tasks and constraints, and that I can fully track using git, makes up for any of TaskJuggler's shortcomings.

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