We needed a project management software that was simple but allowed us to easily trace the tasks done by our product, development and quality assurance teams. This was easily handled by plane and in recent versions it has even facilitated our progress reports with its newest charts' features!
In my experience, Jira was too much, while asana was too simple, and clickup too convoluted... Plane's UI, on the other hand, has the most amount of information possible in a simple and beautiful UI. Our company uses it on an everyday basis and we count with all the features we need: time tracking, task estimation, traceability matrix features, gantt diagram visualization, OpenIDC integration, an API that allows us to expand upon it, heck, we even host our own database so we can create anything we want with said data.
The price isn't that steep, yet it presents a really competitive solution for project management because of the fact that it combines several software use cases into a single product, and the learning curve is practically null. Besides, the support I've received from both the discord server (both from the community and the company's collaborators) has been pretty efficient and warm, so I'm really happy with this software overall.
Plane is perfect for our small team many of whom are new to Project Management tools that didn't approach it with pre-conceived notions of how things should work.
Additionall support was willing to hop on a call with member of Engineering team to work through some migration and ensured everything worked 100%.
Our technology teams started using Plane to manage our various workloads. We have an intake helpdesk that didn't allow affordable tracking of work. We initially starting using Plane as lists and Kanban boards, but have since switched to Agile Sprints (called 'cycles' in Plane) and really like how we track and measure our work.
While this is a fairly new product, they move fast and offer fantastic support.
Plane is the work infrastructure for humans and the AI agent era. Projects, knowledge, and service on one work graph: cloud, self-hosted, or air-gapped.