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Redmine Cookbook

By : Shamasis Bhattacharya
Book Image

Redmine Cookbook

By: Shamasis Bhattacharya

Overview of this book

In a variety of online project management tools, Redmine markets itself as offering flexibility. Choosing the right management tool can mean the difference between the success and failure of a project. Flexible project management tools bend themselves to fit your needs, whether that’s communication regarding a simple project, or collaboration, or more complex project methodology such as SCRUM, or an issue-code relationship, or the need of different methodology for your project. Whether you are project manager or system administrator, this book provides valuable recipes to get the best possible performance out of your team, organization, infrastructure, and Redmine itself. Through a series of carefully crafted recipes covering the nitty-gritty of Redmine, you’ll be guided through the installation of Redmine, as well as how to fine-tune and customize your Redmine installation. Finally, we walk you through integrating Redmine with other softwares and databases like Tortoise SVN and Visual Studio and troubleshooting Redmine.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Redmine Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

How to convince management to use Redmine


Transition to Redmine can occur if a management realizes that they need to organize work differently and migrate from paper-based business to computer supported, or from one form of computer-supported business to another (from text documents and table sheets to a web-based application, or from desktop and single user to a web-based application and multiuser environment). Sometimes, they may not realize that change is required, or simply, they do not know how Redmine can help them and your company benefit in everyday work. This recipe can help you prepare a good demo or presentation for them.

Getting ready

Fetch information about other departments of your company, its short- and long-term plans, and its strengths and weaknesses.

How to do it…

Sometimes, management may have a hard time realizing that migration is necessary, or a hard time deciding to use Redmine in favor of some other highly-marketed product, and you may need to convince different layers...