Redmine for azoft

Redmine
vs
everything else
"Redmine or not redmine: that is the
question",
William Shakespeare, F1 1623

List of "Everything else" foes
● Youtrack
● *Asana
● Trello
● Trac
● MantisBT
● Bugzilla
● *Basecamp
● Atlassian Jira (and GreenHopper)
● *MS Project
● Teamlab
● *Continuus
● EasyRedmine
● ChiliProject
● *EasyDays
● name-yourself

Redmine features
● Team collaboration (wiki, forums, docs repo,
etc)
● Issues tracker (dependencies, subtasks, dues,

All in one!
%done, svn integration, hooks, etc)
● Bug tracker (follow-ups, templates, etc)
● Revisions tracker (versions, milestones, goals,
etc)
● Change management
● Time tracker (svn hooks, export, MS Project
integration through plugins, etc)
● Project management (subproject,
dependencies, gantt, etc)

Redmine pros
● It's free!
● Access levels, roles, workflows, etc
● Multilanguage support from the box
● Gantt chart and calendar
● Flexible issues tracking
● Issues creating from email
● Team collaboration
● Being able to move tickets (issues) between
projects easily (in batch too)
● Decent search (e.g. for bugs)
● Plugins (Jenkins, code review, Agile, etc)
● Simple

Redmine cons
● It's free!
● Ruby
● UI sucks (JIRA even worse)
● Issue tracker often used for communication, not for
issue tracking
● Misuse of default settings (e.g. priorities or
milestones)
● Disuse of most of functions (e.g. time tracking)
● No issue templates (needs plugin)
● No resource management or budgeting
● Plugins
● Complex

Access levels
● Groups
● Roles (doesn't do anything with employee's
titles)
● Issue statuses (use with caution!)
● Workflow ("Postpone (next phase)" and
"Future todo" are good examples of improper
use)
● Trackers (use Occam's Razor!)
● LDAP, OpenID, self-registration
● Apache authentication integration (if needs)

Gantt

● To be able to use it, you must use
Redmine (surprise!)

Issue categories VS subprojects
● What to choice?
● Small (short) projects vs big (and looong and
complex)
● Easy to transform (batch)
● Default assignee (in Administation->Issue
statuses)
● Version sharing (none, subprojects,
hierarchy, tree, all)

Team collaboration
● Project overview (good description)
● Wiki (and textile)
● Versions (and milestones)
● "Assigned to" disuse (1135 issues right now
not assigned)
● Default assignee
● /issues/ & "my page"
● Options in "Issues" -- use them!
● "My custom queries" (public too)
● Involvement!

Time tracking
● Estimated time
● Due date
● % done
● Spent time
● Redmine+repo integration (hooks, "fixes",
"refs", "@1h15m")
● Reports

Wiki
● Wiki alike engine (textile; no templates
though (needs plugin); simplest editor; far
from Wikipedia, but still useful enough)
● Table of content – {{toc}}
● Hyperlinks (issues, revisions, commits,
source files, wiki pages)
● "Divide and Conquer" (don't create a huge
pile of everything)
● Announce rules and guidelines (and support
them in actual state)
● Use it!

Estimated time & due date
● Estimated time: 3890 vs 1980
● Due date: 5682 vs 116
● Better visibility
● Team and personal responsibility

% done
● 5798 vs none
● Subtasks
● Estimated time
● Visibility

Estimated time & forecast
● % done
● Spent time
● Experience, background, different tasks VS
forecast accuracy

Issues dependencies
● Related
● Duplicates (& by)
● Blocks (& by)
● Precedes
● Follows
● Feature issues (& due date)
● Decomposition
● % done
● Hierarchy (needs upgrade and might need
plugin)

Few "lifehacks"
● Use it!
● Be responsible
● One for all and all for one (or die together)
● Play with URL

Benefits of proper use
● Crystal clear where every and each project
is
● Issues snapshots
● Human resource load clear overview
● Bottlenecks detection
● Easier to provide SLA
● Employees involvement, therefore part of
team's responsibility
● No need to use MS Project (along with
Redmine)

Хехей! Вопросы?!

Sergei Plaxienko
+7 905 935 29 18
plaxienko@azoft.com

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