Project Management With Dotproject: Implement, Configure, Customize, and Maintain Your Dotproject Installation - Brossura

Jordan, Lee

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1847191649 ISBN 13: 9781847191649

Casa editrice: Packt Pub Ltd, 2007

Riassunto

This is a simple but complete guide to setting up an internal project management solution quickly and at zero cost using dotProject, the most popular open-source project management system. Maintained by committed volunteers, dotProject is a multi-user, multi-language-enabled project management environment with a sensible web-based user interface and is free to anyone needing to create, track, and maintain any kind of project. This fast-paced, practical beginner's guide to getting things done with dotProject is for people who need an efficient and flexible project management tool, whether they are IT professionals or have only basic computer and internet skills. Real-world examples and detailed walkthroughs help readers without previous experience of project management get the most from this powerful tool, covering installing and configuring dotProject, using and administering it, customizing its look and feel to fit a corporate identity, and finally Charts, Reports, and Extensions.

Su questo libro

L'autore

Lee Jordan is a web developer with a large collection of web technology acronyms on her resume that sound like the names of laundry detergents and cause glazed expressions in school children. She designs and maintains internal and external enterprise-level websites and web-based applications as part of a project team for a privately held technical services company. Her work includes proposing, writing, and editing web content and user guides people actually read. She began her career in 1997 as a web designer after graduating from Florida State University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, where she swears that she missed at least one home football game while in the computer lab. Lee later convinced Seminole Community College to give her a Web Programming degree in 2003, even though her final project was a Java-based application that actually contained a usable help file. Web development topics or whatever she can think of at the time are posted on her blog at http://leejordan.net.

Contenuti

Chapter 1 gives an overview of dotProject. This chapter explains the core features of a project management system, then it tells you why dotProject stands above your other choices and how it helps solve your project management woes.

Chapter 2 deals with how to get everything you need up and running on a development machine and helps you deal with configuration issues to set up a working dotProject site. It has walkthroughs for installing in three different ways and the last section helps you troubleshoot common problems.

Chapter 3 introduces the dotProject user interface and navigation system. It discusses standard navigation paths, navigation shortcuts, and tips on how to move around dotProject.

Chapter 4 covers the general modules used in dotProject and shows how to get things done: setting up and maintaining companies, contacts, projects, and file areas of dotProject from a user perspective. dotProject uses a sophisticated version control system for files, which this chapter covers in detail.

Chapter 5 examines all the areas of system administration within dotProject: language/translation management, system configuration, PostNuke and LDAP authentication, module management, and user administration including permission setup.

Chapter 6 focuses on customizing the look and feel of a standard dotProject system. We explore different ways to modify the appearance and settings of dotProject to better suit your needs – from playing around with the CSS and altering icons/images to modifying themes, we do it all in this chapter. At the end of this chapter, you will be able to personalize dotProject to suit your corporate standards.

Chapter 7 covers a host of advanced topics – we save the best for last! From a detailed overview of default dotProject modules, to working with dotProject reports and extending dotProject with add-ons, it describes the purpose and common functions of the standard core and optional modules, you will find something here to enhance your dotProject installation and push it a bit further.

Appendix A deals with the all-important topic of backing up your dotProject installation. This appendix presents a clear outline of what needs to be done and how to do it.

Appendix B deals with troubleshooting issues you might face while working with dotProject.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Packt Pub Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1847191649
• ISBN 13: 9781847191649
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 232
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile