It seems just a little while back when everyone at our office were giving bizarre reactions when project management system was being introduced in the company including myself. There were people that said its an overhead and others who expressed their upfront rejection towards it. However, its been almost a year now and it never felt like a big change at all. All thanks to Redmine. There were mixed reactions when the term Redmine came up – ‘Open Source’ no way, ‘Who is gonna manage and support it’, ….. That was the time when I took up all those over me and stood up for Redmine. Well it was a little difficult for me in the beginning in particular with the fact that I had absolutely no idea of Ruby let alone Ruby on Rails. But Redmine did make things quite easy for me to learn.

But now almost everybody loves Redmine. Not just a project management tool, it has sort of become an intra-organization social networking tool. People have also begun sharing & discussing new thoughts and ideas over Redmine. We have gradually adopted multiple plugins also into the system. We are now in a process of integrating our repository also with Redmine.

Well now we are planning as to how we can turn Redmine into the complete knowledge repository of the company over a period of time.

On the lighter side there is a popular saying that I used to circulate to make people a little comfortable with the PMS – “All is well with Redmine”.

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