Advanced Plugins for Easy Redmine

Advanced Plugins for Easy Redmine

This is a bundle of Easy Redmine plugins for fostering project efficiency. Knowledge base gives you a competitive advantage thanks to improved knowledge management. Agile board supports agile management, meeting calendar organizes personal time and team meetings. Alerts provide an easy-to-use early warning system.

WBS - Work Breakdown Structure

Work Breakdown Struture Plugin visualizes projects, issues and sub-issues in mind map like view - showing decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team. It enables you to manage projects and issues using easy drag & drop while having clearest possible visualization of whole project.

Key Features:

·         Mind map like visualization of the projects, issues, and sub-issues

·         Drag & Drop sorting of issues and projects

·         Creation of issues from the mind map

·         Colour visualization of issues completion and tackers

·         Familiar keyboard shortcuts from other mind map tools

·         Zoom out and zoom-in

·         Step Back Button

DMS - Document Management System

Document Management System Plugin provides quick access to all your files and documents and their management directly from Redmine. It's organized in a familiar directory structure and thanks to document versioning you will have all your docs up-to-date. Approval workflows simplify documents' circulation in your company and simply make your work easier.

Key Features:

·         Document versioning + read/write online mode

·         Document approval workflows - set-up circulation workflow and control it via Redmine

·         Notifications - get notifications about document changes or documents waiting for your approval

·         Lock documents – another users can see that file is being edited by someone else

·         Directory structure - same as in your favourite file manager

·         High-capacity infrastructure ready - upload large amounts of documents

·         REST API

Custom Branding Designer

This Easy Redmine plugin allows you to customize look of your Easy Redmine in order to design it with your company colours and logo. It is question of 1 minute.

Key features:

·         logo upload

·         colour picker to choose 

·         advanced options for detail definition of CSS

Agile board for SCRUM, KANBAN

It is a complex Redmine board for agile management. There are sprints, backlogs, charts and swim-lanes. First, the sprint backlog is created from the project backlog and then, during stand-up meetings, tasks are moved on the board using a drag & drop feature. Managers then monitor sprint progress in the charts.

Key features:

·         project backlog contains all the tasks that are not in the sprints yet

·         drag & drop sprint backlog creation

·         tasks in the sprint may be sorted by people using swim-lanes

·         unlimited number of sprints

·         task filters and board search

·         board settings on the project level

·         drag & drop assignment of the tasks

·         drag & drop operation with the board

Test Cases

Redmine test cases plugin is great tool that helps with repetitive processes and testing stories / scenarios. Therefore it can be a huge help for IT companies with running their tests as well as for another industries (i.e. very popular and useful for an automotive industry). Its a complete test management for all testing methodologies.

Key features:

·         scenario description field

·         expected results field 

·         CSV import

·         test case issues executions

·         related tasks

Project Knowledge base

It is a complex solution for incorporating knowledge management into your Easy Redmine. Knowledge is the key to success. Knowledge base allows you to capture knowledge from tasks and projects, categorize and store it, share it among users and utilize it in future projects. It further helps you create project documentation very easily.

Key features:

·         Easy creation of knowledge posts from tasks - capturing of knowledge

·         Knowledge categories + personal / project categories - for sharing of knowledge

·         Attaching of knowledge posts to projects / tasks

·         Recommendation of knowledge to users

·         Quick access to knowledge base from the right service panel

·         Full text search in knowledge base

Meeting calendar

It is Easy Redmine plugin for organizing personal, team and project meetings – a calendar with meetings and tasks on the personal page or project overview page. Moreover, it allows you to see availability of your colleagues and thus plan meetings effectively. Meeting invitations are sent to e-mail addresses.

Key features:

·         meeting entries with name, date, time, agenda, project and invitations

·         personal time management

·         user availability for meeting planning

·         meeting invitations sent to e-mail with acceptance or denial

·         recurring meetings

·         integration with other calendars via ical (Google, OutLook)

·         room booking

·         project meetings calendar

Time sheets

It is Easy Redmine plugin for week time spent reports on projects or tasks. Users create week time sheets and managers control and approve them

Key features:

·         week table for batch time entries to projects or tasks

·         all time entries created another way are loaded into time sheet

·         lock and approval features

·         roles and permissions - workers create time sheets, managers approve

Alerts - Early Warning System

This Easy Redmine plugin notifies you right when you need it. All users can define their own alerts and then they are notified via e-mail if the defined condition is satisfied. Typical alerts are:milestone due date is approaching, budget of the projects / tasks is about to be exceeded, tasks are over due, users have not log enough time spent, etc.  

Key features:

·         sends e-mail notifications to one or more users

·         3 categories of notifications

·         configuration of conditions for notification on tasks, projects, milestones

·         configuration of time when the conditions should be evaluated

Social wall

This is a Facebook-like wall that fosters informal communication within Easy Redmine. It is „sort of“ internal company Facebookwhere users post their statuses or news. Further, there are image galleries, events, likes or comments.  

Key features:

·         wall for messages and galleries

·         comments and post likes

·         calendar of events

·         e-mail notifications

Task sequences 

It is an easy to use designer for putting tasks into sequences. When one step (one task or set of tasks) is finished, the next step isinitialized – task properties in a particular step are automatically changed according to the setup. This tool allows you to design processes within your projects in Easy Redmine.

Key features:

·         unlimited sequences per project

·         unlimited number of steps in sequence

·         1-n tasks in a step

·         task based definition of „initialize the next step“ condition

·         if conditions in a step are satisfied, the next step is initialized

·         task based definition of condition after initialization

Custom fields with formula

This feature gives Easy Redmine most of the power of MS Excel. You can easily define a new property whose value is calculated based on the data from others values. This can be done for any system entity i.e. tasks, projects, time entries, etc. Simple example: a new property „remaining time“ can be calculated as: total estimated time minus real time spent.  

Key features:

·         calculated properties for tasks, projects, users, time entries, documents etc

·         formulas using all the properties in the system