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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.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Redmine Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


Due to its flexibility in nature, considering the fact that it's open source and widespread, having more than 600 plugins developed over time makes Redmine a credible and trustworthy choice to fulfill some other duties than just basic project management for small teams of software developers.

In a modern business world, flexibility is highly desirable, and applications, such as Redmine, which can quickly adapt to change in your business process without the need to pay to update your old application or buy a new one. This can mean a huge difference in terms of expenses, incomes, and the company's ability to quickly adopt and respond to the new challenges in the business environment or on the market.

So, considering the fact that one of Redmine's main modules is Issue tracker, there is only the question of what are we going to track with it—projects or processes—because the main difference between project and process is repeatability, which is a characteristic of process versus...