Project Management migration
Field-level mapping, validation, and rollback between Orangescrum and monday Work Management. We move data and schema; workflows are rebuilt natively in monday Work Management.
Orangescrum
Source
monday Work Management
Destination
Compatibility
10 of 12
objects map 1:1 between Orangescrum and monday Work Management.
Complexity
BStandard
Timeline
3-5 weeks
Overview
Orangescrum and monday.com share a board-first task model, but their data hierarchies diverge significantly at the sprint, time-tracking, and invoicing layers. Orangescrum tracks Sprints and Backlog as distinct agile containers; monday.com uses Sprints (with monday dev) and Groups as structural equivalents. Time Log entries in Orangescrum attach billable hours to tasks — monday.com has no native time-tracking object, so we create a numeric Hours column and map entries as subitems or row entries in a time-tracking board, flagging any customer choice. Invoice metadata migrates but rendered PDFs do not; customers export these manually before cutover. We do not migrate automations, custom workflows, or Gantt configurations as code. We deliver a written inventory of every active Orangescrum automation with its monday.com automation equivalent documented for the customer's admin to rebuild post-migration.
Every standard and custom field arrives verified.
AI proposes the map; you confirm before any record moves.
Parent–child, lookups, and ownership stay linked.
Calls, emails, meetings — with original timestamps.
Documents, uploads, and inline notes move with the record.
Why teams make this switch
Leaving
What's pushing teams away
Choosing
What's pulling them in
Object mapping
Each row shows how a Orangescrum object lands in monday Work Management, including any object-level transformations, lookup resolution, or schema-design dependencies.
Typical mapping — final map is confirmed during the sample migration step.
Orangescrum
Project
monday Work Management
Board
1:1Orangescrum Projects map directly to monday.com Boards. Each Project's name, description, start/end dates, status, budget fields, and owner assignment transfer to the corresponding Board name, description, and metadata columns. We create the board in monday.com before importing any items so that the board structure is established first. Projects linked to Milestones in Orangescrum create parent Groups within the destination Board.
Orangescrum
Task
monday Work Management
Item
1:1Orangescrum Tasks are the primary work unit and map 1:1 to monday.com Items. Title, description, priority, status, assignee, due date, and custom field values transfer to the corresponding Item name, description, and column values. Status in Orangescrum maps to a monday.com Status column with values matched to the board's column configuration. Priority (low/medium/high/critical) maps to a Labels column or a Priority number column depending on the customer's preferred display.
Orangescrum
Subtask
monday Work Management
Subitem
1:1Orangescrum Subtasks nest under parent Tasks and map to monday.com Subitems. Subtask title, description, status, assignee, and due date transfer to the Subitem. Subitem nesting depth is preserved up to two levels; if Orangescrum subtasks are nested three or more levels deep, we flatten the deepest level into the second-level Subitem and flag the flattening in the reconciliation report.
Orangescrum
Sprint
monday Work Management
Sprint (monday dev) or Group with Timeline
lossyOrangescrum Sprints have a start/end date, goal, and linked tasks. In monday.com, Sprints are only available with the monday dev add-on. We confirm whether the customer has monday dev licensed before migration. If monday dev is available, Sprints migrate as monday dev Sprints with linked tasks preserved. If monday dev is not in scope, Sprints migrate as monday.com Groups labeled with sprint name, and sprint dates map to Timeline columns on each Group's items. Sprint goal text migrates to a dedicated Group description column.
Orangescrum
Backlog
monday Work Management
Group
1:1Orangescrum Backlog holds unassigned user stories not yet in a sprint. We migrate the backlog as a dedicated Group (or multiple Groups if separated by epic/feature) in the destination Board. Backlog item ordering is preserved as item position within the Group. If the destination Board does not use Groups, backlog items land in the first board Group and are labeled with a Backlog Tag column.
Orangescrum
Epic and Feature
monday Work Management
Group or Board Folder
lossyOrangescrum Epics and Features are hierarchical containers above Tasks available on Premium and Enterprise. We map them as parent Groupings in the destination Board or as separate Boards within a Folder if the customer prefers a board-per-epic structure. The mapping choice is made during scoping. If monday.com's native Grouping is insufficient for a deep epic hierarchy, we create a Board per Epic and nest Feature boards within an Epic Folder.
Orangescrum
Time Log
monday Work Management
Subitem or Custom Number Column
1:1Orangescrum Time Logs link hours to a task, a user, and a date with optional billing notes. monday.com has no native time-tracking object. We offer two migration paths: Path A creates a Subitem per Time Log entry on the parent Item with a number column for hours, a date column for the log date, and a text column for user reference. Path B creates a dedicated time-tracking Board with one Item per task and Time Log entries as Subitems linked back to the task board via monday.com's cross-board subitem linking. Path choice is made during scoping. Billable hours flag maps to a Labels column.
Orangescrum
Custom Field
monday Work Management
Column
1:1Orangescrum Custom Fields on tasks and projects (text, number, date, dropdown, checkbox) map to monday.com Column types with equivalent behavior. Text fields map to Text Column; numbers to Numbers Column; dates to Date Column; dropdowns to Dropdown Column; checkboxes to Checkbox Column. We capture the original field name as the Column name and document the full schema map in the scoping deliverable. If Orangescrum used a field type not supported by monday.com's native column set, we flag it for a custom column configuration or a third-party integration during post-migration setup.
Orangescrum
User and Team Member
monday Work Management
Person
1:1Orangescrum Users (name, email, role, active/inactive status) map to monday.com Team Members. We resolve by email match against the destination monday.com workspace. Active/inactive status maps to the Person column assignment on items — inactive users are migrated as item assignees but their monday.com accounts are created as inactive Pending Members for audit continuity. Role-based permissions in Orangescrum map to monday.com workspace roles (Member, Admin, Viewer) during scoping.
Orangescrum
Client
monday Work Management
Contact or Item in a Clients Board
1:1Orangescrum distinguishes between internal Users and external Client contacts. Client records (company name, contact info, billing details) migrate to a dedicated monday.com Clients Board with Items per client and columns for company name, primary contact email, billing contact, and any billing details fields. Client links from Projects migrate as Items linked via the Connect Boards column to the relevant Project Board.
Orangescrum
Invoice
monday Work Management
Item (metadata only, no PDF)
1:1Orangescrum Invoice records include client reference, line items, amounts, status, and date. We migrate invoice metadata — client reference, line item descriptions, total amount, status, and date — as Items in a monday.com Invoices Board with corresponding column values. The rendered PDF files generated within Orangescrum do not migrate. Customers export PDFs manually before cutover or reconstruct them in a dedicated accounting tool post-migration.
Orangescrum
Wiki
monday Work Management
Document (text blob with category hierarchy)
1:1Orangescrum Wiki pages contain rich text content linked to Projects with category hierarchies. monday.com has no native wiki object. We migrate wiki pages as Items in a dedicated Docs Board with the page title as Item name, page content as a long-text column, and category hierarchy preserved as a Tags or Dropdown column. Links between wiki pages and Projects are captured as Connect Boards columns linking to the Project Board.
| Orangescrum | monday Work Management | Compatibility | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project | Board1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Task | Item1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Subtask | Subitem1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Sprint | Sprint (monday dev) or Group with Timelinelossy | Fully supported | |
| Backlog | Group1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Epic and Feature | Group or Board Folderlossy | Fully supported | |
| Time Log | Subitem or Custom Number Column1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Custom Field | Column1:1 | Fully supported | |
| User and Team Member | Person1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Client | Contact or Item in a Clients Board1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Invoice | Item (metadata only, no PDF)1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Wiki | Document (text blob with category hierarchy)1:1 | Mapping required |
Gotchas + challenges
Platform-specific issues from each side, plus the pair-specific challenges that don't show up on either platform's page on its own.
Orangescrum gotchas
Open-source edition omits key paid features
SaaS stability issues documented in 2024
Enterprise API requires explicit access approval
Invoices do not preserve rendered PDF files
Self-hosted and SaaS editions have divergent feature sets
monday Work Management gotchas
Subitems have no bulk export endpoint
API complexity budget constrains query depth
Daily call limits vary sharply across plan tiers
Automation and integration rules do not export via API
Saved views are not exposed via API
Pair-specific challenges
Migration approach
Discovery and scope confirmation
We audit the source Orangescrum instance across plan tier (Basic/Pro/Premium/Enterprise), object volumes (Projects, Tasks, Subtasks, Sprints, Backlog items, Time Logs, Custom Fields, Wiki pages, Invoices, Users, Clients), and active custom workflow count. We confirm whether the instance is cloud or self-hosted, and whether it is on a paid or open-source tier, because each variant has different available objects. We pair this with a monday.com workspace audit to identify existing Boards, Teams, and column configurations. The discovery output is a written migration scope, object count per entity, a monday.com plan recommendation (Basic for teams needing only task and project boards; Standard for teams needing automations and timeline views; Pro for teams needing formulas and integrations), and confirmation of whether monday dev is in scope for Sprint features.
Schema design and sprint-path decision
We design the monday.com destination schema: Board structure (one board per project or board-per-epic based on customer preference), Column configurations per board (Status, Assignee, Priority, Due Date, Timeline, and any custom columns mapped from Orangescrum custom fields), Group structure for Sprints and Backlog, and a Clients Board if Client records are in scope. We confirm with the customer whether monday dev is licensed to determine whether Sprints migrate as monday dev Sprints or as Groups with Timeline columns. We design the Time Log migration path (Subitems on task Items or separate time-tracking Board) and confirm the choice in writing before schema build begins. Schema is deployed into a monday.com test workspace first for validation.
Sandbox migration and reconciliation
We run a full migration into a test monday.com workspace using production data volumes. The customer's project manager or admin reconciles record counts (Projects in, Tasks in, Subtasks in, Sprint items in, Time Logs in, Users in), spot-checks 25-50 random tasks against the Orangescrum source for column value accuracy, and reviews the Sprint grouping and Backlog ordering. Any column type mismatches, missing custom field mappings, or sprint sequence errors are corrected here. The customer signs off the test workspace before production migration begins.
User provisioning and client record preparation
We extract every distinct Orangescrum User referenced on tasks, projects, and time logs and match them against the destination monday.com workspace. Users without a matching monday.com account go to a reconciliation queue for the customer's admin to provision. Client records are prepared in a separate CSV with their project associations so that the Connect Boards column linking Client to Project can be configured during the production migration.
Production migration in dependency order
We run production migration in record-dependency order: Users and Clients (first, no dependencies), Boards (Projects created with name, description, and date columns), Sprints and Backlog Groups (configured before items land), Items (Tasks and Subtasks with all column values, sprint associations resolved, and parent-child links preserved), Time Logs (via Subitems or time-tracking Board per the agreed path), Custom Fields (mapped to columns during item import), Wiki content (as Items in the Docs Board), and Invoice metadata (as Items in the Invoices Board with column values). Each phase emits a row-count reconciliation report before the next phase begins. Orangescrum is placed in read-only mode or frozen during cutover.
Cutover, validation, and automation handoff
We freeze Orangescrum writes during cutover, run a final delta migration of any records modified during the migration window, then enable monday.com as the system of record. We deliver the automation and custom workflow inventory document to the customer's admin team with a written mapping of each Orangescrum workflow trigger, conditions, and actions to a monday.com automation equivalent. We support a one-week hypercare window where we resolve reconciliation issues raised by the customer's team. We do not rebuild Orangescrum automations inside the migration scope; that is a separate engagement or an internal admin task.
Platform deep dives
Orangescrum
Source
Strengths
Weaknesses
monday Work Management
Destination
Strengths
Weaknesses
Complexity grading
Standard Project Management migration. 3 of 8 objects need a mapping; the rest are 1:1.
Overall complexity
Standard migration
Derived from compatibility, mapping clarity, API constraints, and data volume across Orangescrum and monday Work Management.
Object compatibility
3 of 8 objects need a mapping; the rest are 1:1.
Field mapping clarity
Field mapping is derived from defaults — final spec confirmed during the sample migration.
Timeline complexity
8-object category — typical timelines run 2–7 days end-to-end.
API constraints
Orangescrum: Not publicly documented.
Data volume sensitivity
Orangescrum doesn't expose a bulk API — REST + parallelization used for high-volume runs.
Estimator
Rule-based pricing — no per-record fees, no manual quotes. Migrations over 2M records are scoped individually.
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