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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

Managing issue relations


Issue relations help managers and teams to get a clear picture of how a particular task or issue affects other tasks and the ultimate outcome of the project. If a task that precedes 10 other tasks has to be delayed, then all related tasks need to be delayed as well, having a possible impact on the project's delivery date. If a task breakdown structure of a project is properly done, then all task relations can be entered in Redmine, and the impact on one task can be easily and quickly measured. Luckily, Redmine has issue relation features built in, which automate modification of start/end dates among related issues. This recipe is going to teach you how to set relations and modify start-end dates automatically.

How to do it…

The best way to relate tasks chronologically is to start adding tasks to Redmine in chronological order. The first task that you enter in Redmine should have start and end dates properly set, reflecting the real start and end dates of the task....