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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

Using metrics to improve team performance


Team performance may vary depending upon the nature of the project, team motivation, requirements, project management, methodology, or other factors. Project metrics are also dependent upon various factors. Out of the box, Redmine offers several metrics, which may be useful. Extended metrics can be achieved through plugins, third-party tools, or custom database queries. Improving team performance would require that you already have some performance record, then you analyze it, find bottlenecks, and work on methods to improve this record.

Getting ready

You will need Redmine to be used in production for a while to gain some data so you can use metrics. This period may vary depending upon the frequency of use of your Redmine installation.

How to do it…

Built-in metrics are available for several Redmine features. Metrics can help you identify problems, bottlenecks, or ineffective personnel.

Project issue metrics

Project issue metrics are available on the summary...