Painless Project Management with FogBugz, Second Edition | 
| Author: Mike Gunderloy
Publisher: Apress
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Pages: 227
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7 x 0.8
ISBN: 1590599144
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.4
EAN: 9781590599143
Publication Date: August 9, 2007
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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 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 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
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 Good reference. April 23, 2008
Good reference. Helpful background data that wouldn't be obvious to any old user.
I'm glad I bought it -- even though I'm using the FogBugz On Demand service presently instead of hosting my own FogBugz installation
 Get the information from the source December 3, 2007
The book describes how to setup a basic configuration of FogBugz on your own server. The information is the same as you would get in the online documentation with some added commentary. There are a couple of extra sections on plugins and the book does a good job explaining the structure of the database FogBugz uses.
I consider this book a waste of money as you can get the same information from the online manual which will be more up-to-date.
Light reading April 20, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was expecting a little more than how to setup and configure FogBugz. But that is mostly what the book covers. You can get all the same information from the help files and online docs. If you like to have a physical book when setting and configuring software then this is perfect. Walks through all the processes and explains them in a clear manner.
It is missing a lot of the WHY behind things though. Why would I want to configure this like this... How are my customers going to use the product? What changes to you need to make in your support staff processes? None of these things are covered. I was expecting more project management using FogBugz, not using FogBugz.
Excellent book, should be required reading for anyone in the software development field July 31, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Painless Project Management with FogBugz
I got this book back in late Feb. or early March, but due to an in-process project, it got relegated to the top of the "read when time is available" pile. Upon reading the book, that was a mistake. As with Mike's other books, I should have "paused" my development, and read the book. There are a number of project management tips/tricks/techniques that would have helped a great deal on the project (especially considering that I was working from a "draft" specification document).
I have now read the book twice, 1 time quickly to get a feel for it, and a 2nd time to go through it thouroughly, and found that although the book is thin, what is there is "meat" with the fat already cut off. I am finding that I really prefer "thin" books that are to the point, rather than the current trend of 1000 tomes that try to cover everything in the known universe (and some things outside of it) regarding a particular subject and anything remotely related to the subject.
I think the title of this book is somewhat misleading. It does indeed provide instructions on using FogBugz to manage a project, but it also provides some very good tips on managing projects in general.
Although the title of the book is "Painless Project Management with FogBugz", don't let the "FogBugz" part of the title keep you from purchasing this book if you are using another bug tracking/project management tool. While it does teach you how to use FogBugz for project management, there is enough "project management" content, that you should be able to take the prinicples and apply them to any bug tracking/project management system.
I have not used FogBugz, but feel that I could easily install, configure and start using it in a few hours due to the information in the book. The book not only covers how to use FogBugz, but also installation, configuration AND integration with the most well-known/popular source control tools. This is NOT a rehash of the online help, or a 'for dummies" book, but rather, as the title states how to do project management using the FogBugz software.
After reading the book, for the next project that I work on that does not have a requirement for specific bug tracking system, I will definately be taking a hard look at FogBugz due to what I have read in this book.
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, then you definately want to get this book. With the experience Mike has in this area, the tips and techniques he provides are just what I needed to get started. There are books of many pages out there that are all about software development project management, but 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. In the past I have looked at books related to project managment, but always found that they contained way more information than I needed or wanted and would take way to much time to get through. This book has just the right amount of information to allow me to start managing my projects.
Later,
Eric
It's about the process, not the product May 5, 2005
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
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.
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