REDMINE COOKBOOK

Redmine instructions
and best practices

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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.

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Redmine and SCRUM

Read in Chapter 4

Configure Redmine to get most out of SCRUM

Issue code relationship

Read in Chapter 4

Enforce issue-code relationship, and configure Redmine to pull updates automatically!

Paste images from clipboard

Read in Chapter 8

Directly into issues, documents or wiki pages.

Speed up Redmine

Read in Chapter 6

Reduce startup time, get the most from your server! Or scale to multiple servers!

Help Desk

Read in Chapter 10

Configure Redmine as a Help desk with auto-responder

Use word like text editor

Read in Chapter 9

Instead of Textile or Markup, use Text Formatting with CKEditor

Customize Redmine

Read in Chapter 2

Use custom theme, use company logo, customize issue entry form etc...

Agile & Kanban

Read in Chapter 8

Configure Redmine for Agile/Kanban dashboards, roles etc...

Statistics

Read in Chapter 3

Make sure everybody is optimally loaded with work, and your KIP's are good

Interact with customers

Read in Chapter 9

Connect your website's contact form with Redmine

IIS and MsSQL

Read in Chapter 1

Install and run Redmine on Windows Server 2012, IIS and Microsoft SQL Server.

Redmine & Jenkins

Read in Chapter 8

Acheive continous integration, raise issue when build fails...

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Chapters

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Chapter One

Installing and running Redmine

Using Apache & Passenger, Nginx & Puma, Thin on Ubuntu, Centos or Windows Server with Microsoft IIS, Microsoft SQL Server [...]

Chapter Two

Customizing Redmine

Get the best possible User Experience and harmonize Redmine with your business processes, roles and permissions, custom values [...]

Chapter Three

Project management with Redmine

Prepare Redmine to manage your Team more efficiently, optimize workload, split projects into sub-projects and phases [...]

Chapter four

Improving Team Performance

Shows you how to use Redmine as a tool to motivate and boost team morale. With a series of recipes targeting collaboration and team performance [...]

Chapter five

Regular and planned maintenance

This chapter provides several recipes aimed at making sure that your Redmine installation is up to date and working well.[...]

Chapter six

Performance and system tuning

Gain maximal performance of your server and your Redmine installation. Fine-tune it to adjust to your business needs, and user requirements [...]

Chapter seven

Integrating Redmine with other software

Use Redmine from your smartphone, or from Virtual Studio, or Eclipse, Tortoise SVN. Integrate Redmine with your website [...]

Chapter eight

Getting the most out of scripts and plugins

Paste images from clipboard, keep track of your clients, use Agile Dwarf plugin, Kanban plugin, Integrate Redmine with Jenkins. Configure automated e-mail reminder [...]

Chapter nine

Troubleshooting

Redmine version changes, underlying operating system updates, Ruby changes, Rails, gems, various required libraries, and sometimes any of just mentioned code changes can cause a Redmine installation to break [...]

Chapter ten

Getting the most of Redmine

Shows you how to use Redmine as a credible and trustworthy choice to fulfill some other duties than just basic project management for small teams of software developers[...]

— Dule Tatic, System Administrator —

Book is very well written, lot's of helpful how-tos. My company uses Microsoft, and I have installed Redmine on SQL server, hassle free. Great value for money. Highly recommended!

— Elliott Cameroon, Business Developer —

I use Redmine for product management, and related project management. Sometimes my projects count more than 30 people on board, and reading this book helped me gain better results from my development teams! Highly recommended guide!

— Miodrag Dragic, Team Lead —

Definitely a time saver! My team switched to internally hosted Redmine from Spreadsheets and Google Docs. Furthermore, we integrated Redmine with SCM and Jenkins, now our development process is great, thanks to this book!

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About the author

"Usually lurking on Redmine IRC Channel #redmine on freenode server. You can contact me through there, or by other means. My team is willing to help you withy anything, and ready to take-over any requests for custom-development of Redmine, it's features or custom projects..."

Acting mainly as a project manager sometimes as a developer or team lead. Aleksandar made the following notable projects possible: Student nourishment IS and ERP with smart cards at the University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad Farmer Market IS and ERP, E-government system of Novi Sad including various sub-services, web portal of the City of Novi Sad, Los Angeles-based Usamailagent.com packet forwarding web-application, Unival-logistics.com online business system.

Name Aleksandar Pavić
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Website http://www.redminegit.com

Currently, Aleksandar is permanently employed as head of IT services department at PUC Informatika, Novi Sad providing IT services to the City of Novi Sad. Where, he is involved in following EU funded Projects: Sociotal, Weelive, and CLIPS. Also, he acts as an entrepreneur running LCP Services software development and project management services agency, standing behind www.redminegit.com cloud hosting of Redmine implementations.

Aleksandar made two publication on Redmine, a paper called Project Management Using Open Source Internet Tools, at 4. International Conference for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Regional Development ICEIRD, Ohrid: National Centre for Development of Innovation and Entrepreneurial Learning, 5-7 May, 2011, pp. 987-994, ISBN 978-608-65144-2-6 and Monographic publication Master Thesis: Application of project management software to science and educational processes published in Proceedings of Faculty of Technical Sciences 04/2014, ISSN 0350-428X, COBISS.SR-ID 58627591

While participating in projects, he acts as an open-source evangelist, and advocates usage of lean methodologies backed up by Redmine as a management software of choice.

Aleksandar uses following management skills on daily basis: project management, product and service management, ISO 27000 and ITIL, Scrum and Agile methodologies and is proficient in following IT technologies: PHP, CakePHP, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Javascript, Bootstrap, C#, Jquery, Apache, Linux, Ubuntu, CentOs, Nginx, PhusionPassenger, Node JS, Html 5, Canvas, CentOs, Windows Servers, IIS, MySql, PostreSql, Microsoft SQL Server.

REDMINE COOKBOOK

Redmine instructions and best practices

By purchasing the book, you will get a code for 20% discount of hosting services offered below!

Top Recipes!

Redmine and SCRUM

Issue code relationship

Paste images from clipboard

Speed up Redmine

Help Desk

Use word like text editor

Customize Redmine

Agile & Kanban

Statistics

Interact with customers

IIS and MsSQL

Redmine & Jenkins

Book Review

Chapters

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter four

Chapter five

Chapter six

Chapter seven

Chapter eight

Chapter nine

Chapter ten

Book is very well written, lot's of helpful how-tos. My company uses Microsoft, and I have installed Redmine on SQL server, hassle free. Great value for money. Highly recommended!

I use Redmine for product management, and related project management. Sometimes my projects count more than 30 people on board, and reading this book helped me gain better results from my development teams! Highly recommended guide!

Definitely a time saver! My team switched to internally hosted Redmine from Spreadsheets and Google Docs. Furthermore, we integrated Redmine with SCM and Jenkins, now our development process is great, thanks to this book!

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