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Do you know a good alternative to JIRA in terms of configurability?

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I'm looking for a project management tool that would allow us to have custom workflows, custom fields, workflow triggers + web hooks and some REST api.

We want to automate couple of processes we run at the company. JIRA is so complex and bloated and I wonder if there's anything competitive on the market.

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Can you give some examples of what you want to automate?

I found JIRA really clunky and overly complex. I much prefer Trello at the moment. It has fewer features but I find it is far faster and more intuitive to use. It does have web hooks and third party site integration but it depends what you want to do.

One of the things we would want to automate is incident handling the workflow includes things like sending SMS when the accident happens (plus email messages), connecting to a remote service to obtain accident details, up to a point of creating a summary with all the details from different system that would preferably go to some Confluence page. We handle it with JIRA currently with workflows + custom workflow functions + webhooks but it becomes harder and harder to maintain.

Had anyone tried Mingle? https://www.thoughtworks.com/mingle/

I use it and it's quite good. Not free though.

Phabricator can probably do all that through its event system (herald), but a few part of the CI (harbormaster) is partly a prototype application which makes the support/doc limited.

Tuleap (https://www.tuleap.org/) ?

Thanks but that seem to be a project management tool only, without any way to customize it (as far as the web site tells). I know there's source code available but I would prefer not to create a custom solution.

It's a full featured ALM (incl. source management, CI, code review & all).

For the tracking part, everything is configurable trough the web UI and per project (contrary to Jira). You don't depend on a site admin to customize your templates, as project owner you are 100% to create as many tracker as you need with the layout you want.

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