WeKan — The Complete Guide: A Trello-Style Kanban Board on Your Own Server
WeKan is an open-source team Kanban board that you install on your organisation’s own server. Each project gets a board, each work stage a column and each task a card. The whole team sees changes in real time through the browser, and the data stays under the organisation’s control.
WeKan
WeKan team
Self-hosted Trello-style Kanban board — track design tasks and site issues as a team.
Get it from the vendorWhat you get
- Boards and columns — a board per project and columns for work stages.
- Full cards — description, due date, labels and checklists.
- Comments and files — discussion and attachments on every task.
- Real-time updates — the whole team sees the same state.
- Self-hosting — data on your own server, not in an outside cloud.
In an engineering office
It suits tracking design tasks, review comments and site defects: one card per defect, with columns such as open, in progress and closed. Installation needs a server and basic system administration skills. The software is free under the MIT licence, and the company separately offers paid commercial support and hosting.
Related tools
For a simple, lightweight Kanban board — Kanboard. For tasks and projects with more views — Vikunja. For full project management with Gantt charts — OpenProject.
Kanboard
Kanboard Project
A very simple Kanban board — what is in progress, what is waiting and what is done.
Get it from the vendorVikunja
Vikunja
Task management with four views — list, Kanban, Gantt and calendar.
Get it from the vendorOpenProject — Community Edition
OpenProject GmbH
Team project management in the browser — Gantt, tasks, documents and time tracking, self-hosted.
Get it from the vendorRedmine
Redmine Project
Task and issue tracking for an engineering project — with Gantt, time tracking and documentation.
Get it from the vendorThe bottom line
WeKan gives a Trello-like experience without a subscription and without sending project data outside. If you have a server, you can set up a board for the team in a short time.