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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

Splitting your project into phases


Sometimes, it is important to group project-related tasks into work packages or phases. One possible scenario in a non-IT related project would be, for example, Development of a new road system. In such a case, the first phase of the project would be expropriation of land, preparation of soil, building the road, and building the support infrastructure. Moreover, each of these phases has an independent task that is specific to that phase of the project. In IT projects, phases may vary from those strictly based upon some software development methodology, to more product-oriented phases, which include marketing, advertising campaigns, and so on, depending upon the nature of the project. Phases or work packages in IT and general project management may be grouped either by functionality, by the nature of tasks (development, design, and marketing,) or by some kind of phase that is based on schedule, payment, or product releases.

Getting ready

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