With Atlassian announcing the end of life for Jira Data Center in March 2029 , many enterprises are actively evaluating where to go next. OpenProject has become one of the strongest open source answers to that question, a sovereign, self-hostable platform that covers project management, product management, issue tracking, Gantt charts, agile boards, and team collaboration in a single tool. But moving an organization’s project management toolchain is never just a data export.