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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

Managing multicultural teams in different time zones


In the twenty first century, multicultural teams in different time zones working on the same project are common practice. This is due to the growth of outsourcing, especially if teams are working on a software product that needs to conquer the global marketplace, or you want to boost productivity by having someone working on the project 24/7.

How to do it…

Multicultural and different time zone teams can have various differences, such as work preference, language, different work approach practices, and so on. Redmine can help boost the productivity of international teams in different ways. One good practice would be to create a document with rules and instructions on what the project collaboration process should look like. Also, make sure that everyone is informed of such a document and follows the rules explained there.

Work organization

If you have a large team with international offices, then you may want to break the project into subprojects...