Date post: | 04-Jul-2015 |
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Communicate Openly:managing project development with available and open-source tools
Marliese Thomas * Auburn University LibrariesEmailPROS- Good for small groups of people- Great for internal communications, like meeting agendas- Everyone has email
CONS- Can quickly fill your email inbox- Difficult for collaboratively working on documents
Listserv ([email protected]) keeps everyone in the loop easily
Blogs, Wikis, & Google Docs
PROS- Great for document editing by multiple people
- Relatively easy to set up and manage - no special expertise (unless it’s on the Intranet)
- Creates a historical record of the project- It’s free! (usually)
CONS- Must create an account to create these things
- Can be limiting in your choice of format, document types
Redmine: an open-source tracking system
PROS- One location for receiving technical bugs, enhancement requests
- Tickets can be assigned to multiple people
- Documents related to the project can be uploaded and saved in one place
- Reporting a problem is as easy as sending an email
- Updating a ticket is as easy as replying to the email report
- Users can be assigned different administrative levels
* Allowed us to seamlessly transfer project administration as we went from development to maintenance mode.
CONS- It’s open-source, so some technical expertise and hardware is required
- We haven’t figured out a way to keep spam from generating a ticket
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