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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

Putting the timeline to good use


After the popularization of social networks, almost every internet user is accustomed to using and following the concept of a timeline. Redmine comes with an Activity tab, which displays the overall activity of the project and subprojects in chronological order starting from the most recent events toward earlier project events reachable through pagination. The timeline also has filters and avatars that are customizable depending upon the theme that is used for Redmine. Frequent checking of project activity can give you a feel for the dynamics of your project. Is it very active or dormant? It can also help quickly identify whether some team-members are not performing as expected so that you can react early and prevent potential problems, which may endanger your desired Project outcome.

How to do it…

The Activity tab is mandatory for every project and cannot be switched off by default. So, as it is already there, let's try to get the most out of it.

Tracking project...