Self-hosted project tracking in 2026: revisit Plane, OpenProject and Redmine before you move another backlog off Jira

• Manoj Shukla
• November 2, 2026

Many Indian software teams did not choose Jira so much as inherit it. Somebody set up a Jira Server licence in 2016, it moved to Data Center when Server ended, and ten years later it holds every bug, every sprint, every customer escalation and half the reasons behind old design decisions.