sejo's rants

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For Inuits (and some clients) I've setup Redmine. Redmine in it's core is a very good tool but with plugins it's pure awesomeness. Let me describe how we use Redmine.

With Inuits we have several internal projects that need to be managed. Because we all are consultants we cannot continuously work on internal projects nor are we sitting in the same office. So the need of a good management tool is a must. Hence Redmine. The way we use it now (with the scrum_pm and Kanban plugins), it allows us to define sprints, setup our stories, manage the backlog and have a nice Kanban overview.

We also installed the scheduler plugin that allows us to manage the schedule of the consultants who move a lot over different clients. This allows us to have an overview of who is working where and when they will be available.

Admitted there are some things that could improve but that's the greatest part, over time we see the new updates on the different plugins and sometimes they are useful and other times not. But we get to use the features others like and implemented for free! Open Source awesomeness at max speed!

Let me draw a small overview of our plugins:

• Kanban is written by Eric Davis and allows us to use the Kanban methodology with redmine.
• scrum_pm is written by Marcin Jędras and allows us to use the SCRUM Methodology!
• scheduler is written by a company named goyello and is used to manage the resources.

llap!

PS: I also want to thank the guy that introduced me to Redmine: Frederic Descamps