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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

Improving Scrum meetings and backlogs


Scrum has been mentioned in this book in several recipes. This recipe is focused primarily on customizing Redmine to optimize the Scrum development process as much as possible.

How to do it…

The first part of this recipe is focused on meetings, and the second part to backlogs.

Saving time required to prepare for Scrum meetings

Redmine can improve Scrum meetings by helping the team be better organized prior to a Scrum meeting where every team member is intended to answer to following questions asked by the Scrum master:

  • What did you accomplish yesterday?

  • What will you do today?

  • What obstacles are impeding your progress?

Team members can speed up their preparation by using custom issue filtering queries saved for their accounts. To see which issues you worked on yesterday, perform the following steps:

  1. Click Issues in the project's main menu.

  2. From status dropdown, choose Any.

  3. On right-hand side from the Add filter dropdown, choose Updated.

  4. From the Updated dropdown...