Review time again, this time I will be reviewing a utility that I have used on a couple of projects that I have worked on. It is a great utility for managing your personal/independent projects and project teams. The software is called Redmine. You can find it here at http://www.redmine.org/.
The Redmine web server allows you to create projects and add employees to the project. Each employee can be given different rolls on the project providing customization over the project development process and data representation to individual users. The software is very flexible, allowing for the creation of custom work flows and project specific milestones. Gaunt chart features are available project leaders for use in tracking individual tasks as well as entire milestones or projects.
Wiki features are also provided, allowing for streamline design documentation functionality. This is really handy when it comes to group development, documentation can be updated effortlessly while team members are updating status. The Redmine application also supports integrating with SVN servers and files can be browsed directly from the Redmine site. You can even use the revision numbers as links in the wiki pages.
Built in bug tracking software also provides a centralized bug tracking system and task assignment functionality for project managers, these bugs and tasks are easily linked to milestones, where progress of individual tasks attribute towards milestone percentages.
The system is easy to use and is fully customizable since it is built on Ruby and the full source is provided for your individual customization. I recommend anyone who is looking to start up a project for themselves and their friends, Independent game developers who can not afford to spend a lot of money on bug tracking and project management suites, or anyone who would like to be a bit more organized about their development practices. The best demonstration of the system is to simply go to the Redmine site as they use their own software to manage their external face of their project. I have found this software tremendously useful and I hope by spreading the word, others will too.
2 comments:
The description about the project management software is really very expressive and amazing. The work done by the author is really great and besof luck to him for the future.
Thanks for the comment Slayer, I will continue to try and provide useful information of this nature. Thanks for dropping by and come back again.
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