With the advent of such rich open source tools such as Subversion, Git, Trac, CruiseControl, and Review Board, managing software projects of any size has become much easier than ever. But how do you best use these tools in your organization? Picking the tool for you team is not a trivial task, and it requires insight into your team’s size, dynamic, and experience level; these tools are far from one-size-fits-all solutions. In this talk we’ll look at how these tools can fit into any software project and how to pick the right tool for your project, helping you make your team more efficient than before.

1. Making software management tools work for you John Mertic ( @jmertic ) Partner and Community Developer Liaison at SugarCRM Provide feedback at http://joind.in/2417

2. Disclaimer: There are no silver bullets “For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.” – H. L. Mencken Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/eschipul/4160817135

3. Lots of Choices

4. Where do you begin? “A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.” - Robert Hughes Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ibnuabi/4534690993

5. Don’t proceed without a process Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lorensztajer/4316396658

6. Toolbox of Software Project Management Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/skistz/398429879

7. What kinds of tools should be in the toolbox Version Control Task Management Documentation Testing

8. Version Control Keeps track of your codebase Enables parallel development What’s you choices Backup files manually ( not a real choice ) CVS Subversion (SVN) Git

9. Evolution of Version Control

10. Task Management Biggest problem for teams in keeping organized Good task management enables developers and managers to plan Should support the development methodology you are using

11. Task Management Tool Matrix Bug Trackers Project Management web2Project Redmine JIRA ( proprietary ) FogBugz( proprietary ) Bugzilla Mantis Github Bug Tracker Trac Launchpad Google Docs / Excel

12. Source: http://ju-n.net/6-scrum-project-management-tools

13. Documentation User facing documentation AND developer documentation Documentation by nature is painful to write, so make it as much as a part of the development process as possible

14. Documentation Matrix Users Wiki Inline Help Docbook Sphinx Developers Wiki PHPDoc Doxygen

15. Testing Automated Unit Functional or Acceptance Performance Manual Usability Consistency

16. The Do’s of Testing Management DO make automated tests automated with continuous integration Hudson / Jenkins phpUnderControl / CruiseControl DO develop a testing strategy that is integrated with build strategy DO analyze testing coverage But don’t believe automated code coverage metrics

17. Testing Tools Matrix Unit Testing PHPUnit Whatever JavaScript unit testing framework you like - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unit_testing_frameworks#Javascript Functional Testing Selenium Watir SODA - https://github.com/sugarcrm/SODA

18. Testing Tools Matrix (cont) Performance Testing ApacheBench Jmeter MeterMaid- https://github.com/sugarcrm/MeterMaid

19. How to find the tools that can work for you Evaluate where you are now Find the problems you have in your current tools Try out different tools that address the problems you are having Pick a tool and implement it Repeat

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