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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


In the previous chapters, we focused mainly on the technical side of Redmine, how to install and run it, and how to customize it. This chapter focuses on the management benefits of using Redmine in software-development-related projects and some generic project management scenarios. Please keep in mind that Redmine is a flexible project management tool, and that it's open source-featuring hundreds of plugins. So, if it does not fit your project management needs out of the box, then most likely there is an elegant and easy way to customize it for your requirements. This can be done either by adjusting some of its flexible features or by installing some third-party plugin. Also, another aspect of Redmine's flexibility means that you do not have to manage each project in the same way. For example, some projects have trackers, and some do not; some can be managed with one methodology, others with different ones. Redmine is built from the ground up to adapt to your project management...