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Redmine Cookbook

By : Pavic
Book Image

Redmine Cookbook

By: Pavic

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 (12 chapters)
11
Index

Practicing Kanban


This book cannot teach its readers how to practice Kanban on their projects, but it can teach users how to extend Redmine's functionality to support Kanban's requirements. In this sense, this recipe deals with installation and usage of the Redmine Kanban plugin.

Note

Originally, this plugin was developed by Eric Davis, who announced on February 14, 2013, that he will no longer maintain his Redmine plugins. So, this recipe uses the most recently updated fork, in light of maintaining the most recent Redmine version compatibility.

Getting ready

Server and Redmine administrator accounts are necessary.

Install gem requirements as follows:

Open the console and type the following:

gem install aasm block_helpers

Provide the sudo password if asked by installer. It may automatically install some required dependency.

How to do it…

To install the Redmine Kanban plugin, follows these steps:

  1. Navigate to Redmine root.

  2. Clone the repository as follows:

    git clone https://github.com/kostgr/redmine_kanban...