How to Install Self-Hosted Sprint Planning Software on Your Own Server
Before you buy a self-hosted sprint planning tool, check the server first: PHP 8.2, MySQL 8.0, a document root pointed at /public, and a cron job the app cannot run without.
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Before you buy a self-hosted sprint planning tool, check the server first: PHP 8.2, MySQL 8.0, a document root pointed at /public, and a cron job the app cannot run without.
We ran a 12-person dev team on Jira for a year. Every time we added someone, the invoice went up. Every sprint planning session had a tax — the tool itself. We tried Linear, Trello, Notion. Nothing was quite right. So we built our own. This is the honest account of why, what we learned, and what we'd tell any small dev team still paying enterprise rates for 20% of the features.