Painless Project Management with FogBugz

This is the first book on FogBugz. It discusses the software development life cycle from "listening to customer feedback" followed by bug tracking, reporting issues, collaborating test plans, maintenance, use cases and real world development scenarios.

Project management is the bane of the team approach to programming. Many programs out there purport to help a development team manage a project; the only trouble is, most of them aren't very good. World-renowned software guru Joel Spolsky's company, Fog Creek Software, has created a tool called FogBugz that incorporates all of Joel's insight into what works and what doesn't work in project management. FogBugz is based on keeping track of a database of cases. At any given time, every case is assigned to one person who must resolve it or forward it to someone else. Cases can be prioritized, documented, sorted, discussed, edited, assigned, estimated, searched, and tracked. Because FogBugz is web-based, everyone on the team always sees the whole picture. Everything from customer feature requests to high-level design discussions to tiny bug fix details is instantly searchable and trackable.

Painless Project Management with FogBugz, Second Edition, written with the guidance of the whole FogBugz team, completely describes the ins and outs of version 6 of FogBugz.

This is the only book on FogBugz While this book references FogBugz, you read more about the process rather than the specific product. You can apply the same process principles to other defect tracking solutions Configuration and implementation of FogBugz also discussed in detail

Autorentext
Mike Gunderloy is a software consultant, writer, and trainer. He has written more than 30 books, including bestseller Coder to Developer: Tools and Strategies for Delivering Your Software.

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The book discusses the software development life cycle from "listening to customer feedback" followed by bug tracking, reporting issues, collaborating test plans, maintenance, use cases and real world development scenarios. This book makes you think about how important project management is, not just from a managerial perspective but also from a developer/software engineer standpoint.

Inhalt

Making Project Management Work.- The FogBugz Philosophy.- Lifecycle of a FogBugz Case.- Managing Cases.- The Three Types of Cases.- Where Do Cases Come From?- Entered via Web Interface (local/customer).- Entered via e-mail.- BugzScout.- Screenshots and attached files.- Filtering cases.- Being a Good FogBugz Citizen.- How devs/qa/mgt should work with FB.- Making FogBugz work for you.- Setting up Users and Groups.- Setting up Projects etc.- Setting up Permissions.- All the other lists you can change.- Getting the Big Picture.- Tracking estimates.- Using Due Dates.- Resolving cases.- Creating Release Notes.- Reporting/Extending.- Working with E-mail, RSS, and Discussion Groups.- E-mail.- Subscribing.- Customer e-mail.- RSS.- Discussion Groups.- Working with Source Code Control.- Setting up SCC.- Getting from Cases to Code and vice versa.- Appendix A: Setting up FogBugz.- Installing on Windows.- Installing on Unix.- Installing on MacOSX.- Customizing FogBugz.- Overall.- User options.- Appendix: BugzScout sample code.