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Reading this, I had a little laugh after reading the entire spiel about increasing intuitivness and the first point is renaming issues (universally understood) to "work packages" (what?).

Maybe it's just me :) overall it looks like quite the overhaul from its redmine roots. A lot of what I had to hunt for in paid redmine plug-ins years ago is just a core feature in OpenProject.

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"Work package" is a pretty universal term in non-software project management, though a single WP could contain multiple todo items. I'm not sure whether it was coined by one of the frameworks like PRINCE2, but a lot of large/governmental systems use it (certainly the UK/Innovate, NASA and ESA, etc).

I would interpret "issue" as more of a general "thing that needs doing" whereas work package has a fairly specific meaning. I wouldn't want to use the phrase work packages as items in a bug tracker, for example.

See:

- https://prince2.wiki/management-products/work-package/ - https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/nasa-work-br... (pdf)

TIL, thanks for the informative reply.

  > A lot of what I had to hunt for in paid redmine plug-ins years ago is just a core feature in OpenProject.

As a Redmine admin, I would love to know which plugins that you use, which are core OpenProject features. Thanks.

It's been a long time, but looking at my email invoices it was Abacus[1] for modernizing the frontend and a bunch of plugins from redmineup[2] like Agile and Resource, which appear to be default OpenProject features ("Board" & "Planner").

[1] https://www.abacusthemes.com/ [2] https://www.redmineup.com/pages/plugins

I agree that the term "work packages" does not always fit. "Issues" doesn't neither. An "Epic" is not a an issue, in my opinion. I am curious which term you had on your mind.

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