Redmine vs. Retrospectiva

Question

Has anyone tried both Redmine and Retrospectiva, and is able to make some comparison between the two?

I'm currently using Trac for my projects management and issue-tracking, but I'm looking to test some alternative and the above two seems most likely to fit my needs. I understand Redmine is more of a Trac clone, but Retrospectiva seem to support agile methodologies via a nice plugin (http://retrospectiva.org/wiki/AgilePM).

Any experience with any of those in comparison to Trac would be also beneficial, from the features, but also installation and management point of view - that's where Trac gets a bit complicated, I'm not familiar with Python and I run into problems when something breaks. So something that is stable by itself and the underlying platform and needs minor maintenance work is an advantage. What are your experiences with those?

Answer 1

Retrospectiva is a younger project by far, well set up for agile/story based development methods, but lacking the sheer breadth of plugins and/or additional components that are available for the Redmine project.

If you want/need multiproject and more than a stock setup of Retrospectiva, then I'd look seriously at Redmine with the Scrum Alliance plugins (http://www.redmine.org/boards/3/topics/4014)

I don't think Retrospectiva is out of the race by any means, but Redmine definitely has the lead here.

Answer 2

Here are another Redmine plugin to take a look. They have many other but I couldnt post because of the spam protection. It goes from a simple scrum dashboard to a more complex dashboard with statistics and other cool stuff. This one is the most complete scrum plugin for Redmine.

http://github.com/relaxdiego/redmine_backlogs

Answer 3

Hello Friends, I prefer Redmine, because it's extraordinary features. For support of Agile development is also good.