Painless Project Management with FogBugz, Second Edition

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 227 pages
• Published by: Apress
• Edition: 2nd Edition July 4, 2008
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1590599144
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1590599143
• Book Dimensions: 9.1 x 7 x 0.8 inches
• Weighs: 1 pounds

Product Description


Project management is the bane of the team approach to programming. Many programs out there purport to help a development team manage a projectthe 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 a keeping track of a database of cases. At any given time, every case is assigned to one human being 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 the latest version of FogBugz, version 6 of which is scheduled for release simultaneously with this book.

What you’ll learn

If you are looking for a quick read on how to do software development project management (with or without FogBugz) that can get you started right away, this is the book. The tips and techniques and information about configuration and implementation are key benefits. For the developer wanting to be able to get started with the basics and not have to worry about various methodologies, theory, and discussions of various styles, this is probably the best book on software project management.

Who is this book for?

This book is for users of FogBugz, potential users of FogBugz, project managers using FogBugz, and project managers who might use FogBugz

About The Author
Mike Gunderloy is a software consultant, writer, and trainer. He has written more than thirty books, including the recent best-seller, Coder to Developer: Tools and Strategies for Delivering Your Software.

Reader Reviews
This review is from: Painless Project Management with FogBugz (Books for Professionals by Professionals) (Paperback) While this book references a specific defect tracking solution, namely FogBugz, you should read more about the process rather than the specific product. You can apply the same process principles to other defect tracking solutions. Speaking of FogBugz (I was responsible for selecting it for our software development company), it's NOT the only good defect tracking software out there. It's good, otherwise I wouldn't have chosen it, but it's far from mature. All you have to witness is the bug reports and feature requests on its own support forum: http://support.fogcreek.com/?fogbugz In some areas FogBugz does it better than other software. In some other areas it does worse. You will have to do you own research and pick the software that works the best for your own needs.