Organized Crime · 2015-09-06 · • Understand project management and organizational challenges...
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Organized Crime: Weapons of Successful Project Management
Transcript of Organized Crime · 2015-09-06 · • Understand project management and organizational challenges...
Organized Crime: Weapons of Successful Project Management
About Jay
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• @ Promet Source • Director of Products • Web & mobile app product building • Strategy and requirements • Agile practices and methodologies
• Previously • IT management and consulting • Enterprise CMS software • Open source convert • Product development at startups
Jay Uhlinger [email protected]
@jayuhlinger
• Focus on open source software and Drupal • Founded in 2003 • Offices in the US (Chicago, San Jose) • Some of the faces of Promet…
About Promet
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Organized Crime: Weapons of Successful Project Management
• Understand project management and organizational challenges • Review some of the tools out there being used for project
management, client communication, and business management • Learn how to execute more efficiently and be agile by using an
integrated tool set • Examples using Redmine for:
• Agile project management • Client management • Product management • Business management
Objectives
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• Time tracking • Bug reporting and tracking • Document/file storage/sharing • Client reporting/time reporting • Issue prioritization • Team collaboration • Distributed teams • Work in multiple time zones • Story/effort/task estimations • Knowledge sharing • Joint dev teams with client
The Laundry List of Challenges
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• Scheduling/calendaring • Utilization • Code review • SCM integration • Maintaining backlogs • Onboarding resources • Wiki/documentation • Project progress tracking • Gantt charts • Burndown charts • And more…
Four Quadrants
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Wikis, Documents
Stories, Issues, Git Repositories
Project Documentation
Management Information
Project Management Updates
Time Tracking, Commit Activity,
Workflow Management
Status, Activity Stream
Existing Tools: Open Atrium (Drupal)
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Existing Tools: Basecamp (User Friendly)
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Existing Tools: Atlassian Products (Suite)
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Jira Confluence
GreenHopper Stash Fisheye
TeamCalendars
Existing Tools: Assembla (SaaS Agile)
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Existing Tools: Bugzilla (Bug Tracking)
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Existing Tools: Mantis (Old School)
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Existing Tools: Harvest (SaaS User Friendly)
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Existing Tools: FreshBooks (SaaS)
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Existing Tools: QuickBooks (Accounting)
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Existing Tools: GitHub (SaaS Developer Friendly)
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• Many tools address individual problems very well, but do not solve multiple problems at one time • Having one place where you can integrate as many pieces as possible provides significant gains in efficiency, quality, and collaboration
The Problem
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• Open Source
• Secure • Extensible
• Usability (for us and our clients) • Self Hosted
Promet's High Level Requirements
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• Flexible project management web application
• Open Source
• Ruby on Rails
• Plugin style extensions (think modules)
• Active (5300+ repos related to Redmine on GitHub)
• Used by wide variety of people and organizations
• ChiliProject community fork
Redmine Overview
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• Multiple projects support
• Flexible role based access control • Flexible issue tracking system
• Gantt chart and calendar
• News, documents & files management • Feeds & email notifications
• Per project wiki
• Per project forums • Time tracking
• Custom fields for issues, time-entries, projects and users
• SCM integration (SVN, CVS, Git, Mercurial, Bazaar and Darcs) • Issue creation via email
• Multiple LDAP authentication support
• User self-registration support • Multilanguage support
• Multiple databases support
Redmine Main Features
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Redmine: Issue/Ticket Tracking
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Redmine: Issue/Ticket Tracking
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Redmine: Gantt
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Redmine: Workflow for Issue Trackers and Roles
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Redmine: Role-Based Permissions
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Redmine: Source Code Repo Viewer and Diff
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Redmine: Spent Time
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Redmine: Workflow for Issue Trackers and Roles
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Redmine: Customize Issue Trackers
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Redmine: Customize Issue Status
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Redmine: Customize Workflow
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Redmine: Custom Fields on Almost Every Object
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Redmine: Git Integration
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Redmine: User Management
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Redmine: Views/Queries Customization
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Project and Agile Perspective
Johnnie
Agile Organization of Stories and Tasks
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Agile Story Board
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Redmine: Git
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Source Code Ties to Tickets
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Project Information at a Glance
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Retrospective Metrics
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Retrospective Metrics
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Business Management Perspective
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• Keep all info for a Client’s projects in one place • “Product” lifecycle approach • Leverage project hierarchy in Redmine
• Client account (top level project) • Support (subproject) • Main Site Migration Project A (subproject) • Intranet Project B (subproject) • Ecommerce Integration Project C (subproject)
Manage Everything for a Client
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Use Project Templates
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•Copy existing project •Create project templates •Types of projects (agile, audits, support…) •Prefab issues/tasks •Common info structure in wiki •Continuous improvements
Client Access and Roles
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Manage Internal Projects and Products
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Integration
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Business Management Perspective
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Projects Activity View
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Time Reporting
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Time Reporting
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Company Reports – Support Snapshot
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Company Wide Resource Scheduling
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Company Wide Resource Scheduling
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Gains from 360 View
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The Problem
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