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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


The previous chapters were focused mainly on the technical side of Redmine, how to install and run it, and how to customize it. Assuming that you have already familiarized yourself with the bits and pieces of Redmine, this chapter focuses on how to get the most out of customizations and improve the performance of your team by focusing on management benefits, improved user experience, and business processes.

If you are a manager managing a team of software developers or support helpdesk crew, you may wonder how to improve team performance? The best way to improve the performance of a team is to motivate it, and Redmine should be used as a tool to motivate and boost team morale instead of strengthening control and using metrics for penalties. You should also motivate your teammates to come up with ideas on how the management process can be improved, which customizations can be applied to Redmine, and which plugins can help improve your business processes.