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An expert's guide to open source project management with Redmine
About This Book * Learn Redmine through the basic topics to the
mastering ones * Customize Redmine without breaking upgrade
compatibility * Become an expert of Redmine after having read this
comprehensive guide with tips, tricks and best practices. Who This
Book Is For This book is best suited for project managers and
Redmine administrators who have working knowledge of Redmine and
who now want to get advanced practical knowledge to manage and
monitor projects effectively and efficiently. What You Will Learn *
Forget about troubles with installing and configuring Redmine *
Feel at ease with using Redmine wiki syntax * Get familiar with the
permissions system and issue life cycle in Redmine * Use Redmine
for issue tracking, project hosting, project management, and time
tracking * Find and choose plugins, and get familiar with some of
the most useful Redmine plugins In Detail Redmine is not only one
of the popular open source project management applications but also
one of the best project hosting and issue tracking solutions. This
book is an update of our previous successful edition, Mastering
Redmine. This book is a comprehensive guide that will give you a
detailed practical understanding on how to effectively manage,
monitor and administer complex projects using Redmine. You will get
familiar with the concept of Issue Tracking and will get to know
why and what makes Redmine one of the best issue trackers. Another
main part of Redmine functionality, which is Managing projects
shows why this is one of the best applications for project hosting.
Furthermore, you will learn more about Redmine rich text formatting
syntax, access control and workflow and time Tracking. Towards the
end, you will unleash the power of custom fields and guides to show
how to customize Redmine without breaking upgrade compatibility. By
the end of the book, you will have a deep practical understanding
on how to effectively monitor and manage large scale and complex
projects using Redmine. Style and approach A comprehensive
practical guide that will help the readers from custom
configuration to integration of complex plugins and applications,
and will leverage Redmine in appropriate situations for better and
efficient results.
Over 80 hands-on recipes to improve your skills in project
management, team management, process improvement, and Redmine
administration About This Book * Efficiently install and customize
Redmine for your own infrastructure, whether that be Microsoft or
open source * Manage multiple projects with multiple teams across
the globe in a standardized and effective way * Customize Redmine
to fit your organisation's specific and unique needs Who This Book
Is For This book is for those who working in management or
administrator positions who are already using Redmine or are
willing to start using it for project management, tracking,
collaboration, or process management. Additionally, individual
developers or teams can benefit from recipes related to code
repositories, bug tracking, and software project management. What
You Will Learn * Make Redmine run on Microsoft SQL Server with IIS
* Enjoy the benefits of updating the code on a real-time basis and
maintaining consistency * Manage multiple projects and teams
simultaneously * Leverage Redmine features to enhance team's
performance * Use Redmine for SCRUM and Agile methodologies *
Deploy Redmine for Service Desk * Customize the user experience by
manually tracking the ongoing projects * Extend Redmine through
various plugins In Detail 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. Style and approach This book follows a
step-by-step recipe-based approach. Detailed prerequisites make
each recipe easy to follow and apply in practice in any kind of
live environment.
A Project Manager's Guide to Passing the Project Management Exam -
This book contains detailed directions for preparing for the exam,
along with chapter summaries and detailed review questions. We have
also updated our material dealing with the Professional
Responsibilities section. Organized to cover each competency area
tested on the exam. A Project Manager's Guide to Passing the
Project Management Exam reviews project management in terms of
project management framework and process groups (just like the
actual exam). A Project Manager's Guide to Passing the Project
Management Exam now contains more information for preparing and
studying for the project management exam, with more insider tips
than any other book on the market. Aligned with PMBOK 5th Edition.
This book provides a thorough look at the tools available within
Redmine to facilitate the development of plugins and extensions.
Full of tips and tricks, a recurring case study is also used to
help guide you through the various content area extensions and
plugin helpers and to provide context and realworld examples of the
concepts being covered. This book is intended for those who want to
build custom functionality into the Redmine project management
platform. If you're already comfortable with Ruby, Rails, and
Redmine, but you aren't quite sure what to do next, this book will
walk you through the basics of getting a plugin written and
integrated into various key areas of Redmine.
A comprehensive guide, full of practical recipes with real-life
JIRA administration challenges, solutions, and examples with
illustrations from the actual application. If you are an
administrator who will be customizing, supporting, and maintaining
JIRA for your organization, this book is for you. Familiarity with
the core concepts of JIRA is essential. For some recipes, basic
understanding in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript will also be helpful.
A fast-paced tutorial that guides you through everything you need
to know about dynamic UI design for Android devices.This book is
for developers with a basic understanding of Android programming
who would like to improve the appearance and usability of their
applications. Whether you're looking to create a more interactive
user experience, create more dynamically adaptive UIs, provide
better support for tablets and smartphones in a single app, reduce
the complexity of managing your app UIs, or you are just trying to
expand your UI design philosophy, then this book is for you.
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