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Redmine Cookbook

By : Shamasis Bhattacharya
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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.

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Redmine Cookbook
Shamasis Bhattacharya
Feb, 2016 | 322 pages
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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Redmine Cookbook
Redmine Cookbook
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewer
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Installing and Running Redmine
Installing and Running Redmine
Introduction
Default installation on an Ubuntu server
Installing from a source on Ubuntu
Installation on Windows servers
Using Puma and IIS on Windows
Running with Apache as mod_fcgid
Running Redmine with Phusion Passenger
Running Redmine with Nginx and Thin
Installing optional requirements
Using custom Ruby for Redmine
2
Customizing Redmine
Customizing Redmine
Introduction
Customizing My page
Editing Redmine's views manually
Customizing modules per project
Extending user profiles with additional data
Customizing User roles
Creating and using User groups
Customizing the layout of the project entry page
Customizing the layout of the home page
Interacting with Redmine only through e-mail
3
Project Management with Redmine
Project Management with Redmine
Introduction
Splitting your project into phases
Creating and using subprojects
Splitting your tasks into subtasks
Managing issue relations
Creating and using template projects
Managing multiple projects simultaneously
Creating reports on spent time
Making sure everyone is optimally loaded with work
Relating between issue and time
Using the issue-code relation
Defining a roadmap to the release plan
4
Improving Team Performance
Improving Team Performance
Introduction
Keeping relevant documentation in Redmine
Putting the timeline to good use
Making sure that everyone is informed
Limiting access to some team members
Using metrics to improve team performance
Analyzing team performance through the code repository
Using the repository module to display code differences
Managing multicultural teams in different time zones
Applying advanced issue-code relationships
Improving Scrum meetings and backlogs
5
Regular and Planned Maintenance
Regular and Planned Maintenance
Introduction
Starting and restarting Redmine
Checking for active Redmine processes on the server
Configuring backup and recovery
Checking the data dirs for possible malware
Migrating and upgrading
Upgrading or migrating the database behind Redmine
Enhancing security
Upgrading Ruby safely
6
Performance and System Tuning
Performance and System Tuning
Introduction
Fine-tuning new project creation
Tuning authentication and auto-login features
Tuning the workflows
Setting the log level
Getting the most from a single server
Scaling Redmine across multiple servers
Increasing file upload size
Integrating Redmine with Active Directory
7
Integrating Redmine with Other Software
Integrating Redmine with Other Software
Introduction
Exporting to Microsoft Project
Using Redmine through browser plugins
Using Redmine mobile applications
Activity monitoring through Atom feed
Embedding Redmine into a web application
Using the Redmine REST API with PHP
Using the Redmine REST API with C#
Integrating with Tortoise SVN or GIT
Interacting with Redmine from Visual Studio
8
Getting the Most Out of Scripts and Plugins
Getting the Most Out of Scripts and Plugins
Introduction
Pasting images from clipboard
Keeping track of your clients
Redmine for document management
Implementing and using reoccurring tasks
Practicing Kanban
Importing issues to Redmine
Using Redmine with Jenkins
Using the assigned issues summary e-mail
Text formatting with CKEditor
Being Agile with Agile Dwarf
9
Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting
Introduction
Where to get help and how to get help faster
Troubleshooting bundler installation
Troubleshooting Apache installations
Troubleshooting plugin installation
E-mail sending issues
Incoming e-mail parsing issues
Recovering from system failure
Tackling a delayed response from the server
10
Making the Most of Redmine
Making the Most of Redmine
Introduction
How to convince management to use Redmine
Redmine as a Helpdesk with auto-responder
Using Redmine as a service desk platform
Improving Redmine Security for ISO 27000
Redmine and SLA
KPIs inside Redmine
Using Redmine with ITIL
Index
Index

About the Author

Aleksandar Pavić began his first project as a student at the Faculty of Technical Sciences, Novi Sad, Serbia where he developed Technical Faculty's first website. He later assembled a web team and graduated with BScs in computers sciences and information technology, and an MSc in product lifecycle management at the same university.

Acting mainly as a project manager and sometimes as a developer or team leader, Aleksandar made the following notable projects possible: student nourishment IS and ERP with smart cards at the University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad Farmer Market IS and ERP, E-government system of Novi Sad, including various sub-services, a web portal of the City of Novi Sad, Los Angeles-based Usamailagent.com packet-forwarding web-application, Unival-logistics.com online business system.

Currently, Aleksandar is employed as head of the IT services department at PUC Informatika, Novi Sad. He is involved in the following EU-funded Projects here: Sociotal, Weelive, and CLIPS.

Acting as an entrepreneur, he stands behind www.redminegit.com, cloud hosting, and Redmine implementations.

Aleksandar has two publications on Redmine. The first is a paper called "Project Management Using Open Source Internet Tools" in the fourth ICEIRD Conference,pp. 987-994, ISBN 978-608-65144-2-6. The second is "Monographic Publication - Master Thesis: Application of Project Management Software to Science and Educational Processes", published in Proceedings of Faculty of Technical Sciences 04/2014, ISSN 0350-428X, COBISS.SR-ID 58627591.

While participating in projects, he acts as an open source evangelist, and he advocates usage of lean methodologies backed up by Redmine as the management software of choice.

Aleksandar uses various management skills, such as, project management, product and service management, ISO 27000 and ITIL, Scrum and Agile methodologies, on a daily basis. He is also proficient in PHP, CakePHP, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Bootstrap, C#, jQuery, Apache, Linux, Ubuntu, CentOs, Nginx, Phusion Passenger, Node.js, HTML5, Canvas, CentOS, Windows Servers, IIS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Microsoft SQL Server.

This book would not be possible without my lovely wife who understands that working on my laptop in a Wi-Fi cafe bar while being on summer vacation is sometimes necessary to accomplish a notable result. Thanks to professors Bojan Lalic and Nenad Simeunovic from the University of Novi Sad with whom I started my project management quest. Thanks to all my colleagues, clients, and partners for using Redmine and understanding that work needs to be planned and organized because without them I wouldn't know what to write about.

Of course, a special thanks to Jean-Philippe Lang and rest of Redmine's contributors for their efforts to maintain and improve Redmine as an open source product over last 10 years. Another special thanks to the people at Packt Publishing for all their hard work and providing me with an opportunity to express myself as international author and to give back to open source community by making Redmine a more credible and well-known product.

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