Project management tools

Project Management Tools in a nutshell - Rakesh Sankar.

Project Management
It is the discipline of planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project & objectives.
You can “get your things done” on each area effectively if a single person is doing the project.
When there are peoples (many) working on the same project – handling it becomes critical and you need a resource which will help you tackle in each phase of SDLC.

SDLC in a nutshell
SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) divides into four categories/steps:
Inception
Elaboration
Construction
Transition
Live Happy 
Tools:
http://openproj.org/ - planning
http://www.redmine.org/ - doc manager, code maintenance, issue tracking, email notification, wiki, forums, multiple projects, multi-lingual & etc - the best to manage everything in one
http://www.codendi.com/index_en.php - doc manager, subversion, git & hudson
http://www.projectpier.org/

Inception
Define: Inception phase kicks the initial step of the project where you:
Gathering the requirements
Collect the task
Plan the release
Make sure the requirements are perfect and freeze them.
Tools
MediaWiki - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki - documentation.
http://collabtive.o-dyn.de/ - collaboration with client/team.
http://fengoffice.com/web/index.php - collaboration tool

Elaboration
Define: Elaboration involves:
Create the concepts (prototypes or wireframes)
Design the page
Choose the framework
Architect Design
Database Design
Tools: Ordered from best to good
http://pencil.evolus.vn/en-US/Home.aspx
http://www.mockflow.com/
http://gomockingbird.com/
http://cacoo.com/
http://lovelycharts.com/
http://www.gliffy.com/wireframe-software/
http://wb.mysql.com/ - Database Design for MySQL

Construction
Design: Construction phase is where you:
Create the instances (environments/machines/servers)
Start the iterations ( SCRUM )
Release the demo-able output from each iterations to the client.
Deploy the project in prod-like staging environment.
Tools:
IDE: Eclipse – PDT
Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ - a code versioning system
Issue management system
http://www.redmine.org/ - the best
http://www.bugzilla.org/

Transition
Define: Transition is where you:
Transfer the project to production environment
Make sure the instance (system/environment) works good with the code
Support for few days
Sign OFF.

Conclusion
Make use of the right tools and live a happy life.
Deliver the good quality product.
Give the client what they are asked for.
Strengthen your team and have a better knowledge.
Learn technology left and right.
by Rakesh Sankar.

Project management tools

by Rakesh Sankar on Jul 10, 2010

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