Redmine Cookbook

318 Pages·2016·6.337 MB·English

by  Aleksandar Pavic

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Redmine Cookbook
Over 80 hands-on recipes to improve your skills in project
management, team management, process improvement,
and Redmine administration
Aleksandar Pavić
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Redmine Cookbook
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About the Author
Aleksandar Pavić began his first project as a student at the Faculty of Technical Sciences,
Novi Sad, Serbia where he developed Technical Faculty's first website. He later assembled
a web team and graduated with BScs in computers sciences and information technology,
and an MSc in product lifecycle management at the same university.
Acting mainly as a project manager and sometimes as a developer or team leader, 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, a web portal of the City of Novi Sad,
Los Angeles-based Usamailagent.com packet-forwarding web-application,
Unival-logistics.com online business system.
Currently, Aleksandar is employed as head of the IT services department at PUC Informatika,
Novi Sad. He is involved in the following EU-funded Projects here: Sociotal, Weelive,
and CLIPS.
Acting as an entrepreneur, he stands behind www.redminegit.com, cloud hosting,
and Redmine implementations.
Aleksandar has two publications on Redmine. The first is a paper called "Project Management
Using Open Source Internet Tools" in the fourth ICEIRD Conference,pp. 987-994, ISBN
978-608-65144-2-6. The second is "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 he advocates usage
of lean methodologies backed up by Redmine as the management software of choice.
Aleksandar uses various management skills, such as, project management, product and
service management, ISO 27000 and ITIL, Scrum and Agile methodologies, on a daily basis.
He is also proficient in PHP, CakePHP, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Bootstrap, C#, jQuery,
Apache, Linux, Ubuntu, CentOs, Nginx, Phusion Passenger, Node.js, HTML5, Canvas, CentOS,
Windows Servers, IIS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Microsoft SQL Server.
This book would not be possible without my lovely wife who understands
that working on my laptop in a Wi-Fi cafe bar while being on summer
vacation is sometimes necessary to accomplish a notable result. Thanks to
professors Bojan Lalic and Nenad Simeunovic from the University of Novi
Sad with whom I started my project management quest. Thanks to all my
colleagues, clients, and partners for using Redmine and understanding that
work needs to be planned and organized because without them I wouldn't
know what to write about.
Of course, a special thanks to Jean-Philippe Lang and rest of Redmine's
contributors for their efforts to maintain and improve Redmine as an open
source product over last 10 years. Another special thanks to the people at
Packt Publishing for all their hard work and providing me with an opportunity
to express myself as international author and to give back to open source
community by making Redmine a more credible and well-known product.
About the Reviewer
Jijesh Mohan is a computer science engineer with over 10 years of experience as a full
stack developer. As an active evangelist of Redmine since 2009, Jijesh has been a passionate
supporter of the Redmine community and has authored multiple plugins. His expertise ranges
across several technologies, such as Ruby on Rails, Golang, ReactJS, and AngularJS.
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Table of Contents
Preface v
Chapter 1: Installing and Running Redmine 1
Introduction 2
Default installation on an Ubuntu server 3
Installing from a source on Ubuntu 7
Installation on Windows servers 11
Using Puma and IIS on Windows 16
Running with Apache as mod_fcgid 19
Running Redmine with Phusion Passenger 21
Running Redmine with Nginx and Thin 24
Installing optional requirements 29
Using custom Ruby for Redmine 31
Chapter 2: Customizing Redmine 35
Introduction 35
Customizing My page 36
Editing Redmine's views manually 38
Customizing modules per project 39
Extending user profiles with additional data 41
Customizing User roles 45
Creating and using User groups 47
Customizing the layout of the project entry page 49
Customizing the layout of the home page 50
Interacting with Redmine only through e-mail 52
Chapter 3: Project Management with Redmine 59
Introduction 60
Splitting your project into phases 60
Creating and using subprojects 62
Splitting your tasks into subtasks 66
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