Redmine: A Software Project Management Solution
As a professional developer, I am always concerned about tools that help developers and ease the overall project management process.
For long time, I have searched for the best application that I can trust and use as my all-in-one solution for project management and issue tracking. I have seen many applications that claimed being the best, downloaded many free tools and signed up for many trial accounts. Examples include EasyProjects.NET, Trac, XPlanner, Bugzilla, Mingle, Basecamp, and Goplan.
Finally, I found the solution that I'm extremely impressed with. Redmine is a flexible project management and issue tracking web application that is created by Jean Philippe Lang and released under the GPL. Written using Ruby on Rails framework, it is cross-platform and cross-database solution.
Features include role based access control, SVN integration, LDAP support, Gantt charts, wikis, forums, time tracking, calendars, file management and self registration. And the one I like most is the integration between multiple projects so you can manage them all as one project. And, of course, it's free.
Moreover, Redmine provides support for plugins that can be easily installed to add even more functionalities like integrating Google Calendar.
For real projects, I highly recommend using Redmine and forget the hassle of maintaing multiple systems for project management, issue tracking and version control.
An online demo can be found here: http://demo.redmine.org.
Jake Morgan
September 10th, 2009 - 01:34 PM
Thanks for the suggestion. We use HyperOffice Project Collaboration Software, because in includes integration with email. That helps when your team is so used to working through email.