About the Author

Aleksandar Pavić began his first project as a student at the Faculty of Technical Sciences, Novi Sad, Serbia where he developed Technical Faculty's first website. He later assembled a web team and graduated with BScs in computers sciences and information technology, and an MSc in product lifecycle management at the same university.

Acting mainly as a project manager and sometimes as a developer or team leader, Aleksandar made the following notable projects possible: student nourishment IS and ERP with smart cards at the University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad Farmer Market IS and ERP, E-government system of Novi Sad, including various sub-services, a web portal of the City of Novi Sad, Los Angeles-based Usamailagent.com packet-forwarding web-application, Unival-logistics.com online business system.

Currently, Aleksandar is employed as head of the IT services department at PUC Informatika, Novi Sad. He is involved in the following EU-funded Projects here: Sociotal, Weelive, and CLIPS.

Acting as an entrepreneur, he stands behind www.redminegit.com, cloud hosting, and Redmine implementations.

Aleksandar has two publications on Redmine. The first is a paper called "Project Management Using Open Source Internet Tools" in the fourth ICEIRD Conference,pp. 987-994, ISBN 978-608-65144-2-6. The second is "Monographic Publication - Master Thesis: Application of Project Management Software to Science and Educational Processes", published in Proceedings of Faculty of Technical Sciences 04/2014, ISSN 0350-428X, COBISS.SR-ID 58627591.

While participating in projects, he acts as an open source evangelist, and he advocates usage of lean methodologies backed up by Redmine as the management software of choice.

Aleksandar uses various management skills, such as, project management, product and service management, ISO 27000 and ITIL, Scrum and Agile methodologies, on a daily basis. He is also proficient in PHP, CakePHP, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Bootstrap, C#, jQuery, Apache, Linux, Ubuntu, CentOs, Nginx, Phusion Passenger, Node.js, HTML5, Canvas, CentOS, Windows Servers, IIS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Microsoft SQL Server.

This book would not be possible without my lovely wife who understands that working on my laptop in a Wi-Fi cafe bar while being on summer vacation is sometimes necessary to accomplish a notable result. Thanks to professors Bojan Lalic and Nenad Simeunovic from the University of Novi Sad with whom I started my project management quest. Thanks to all my colleagues, clients, and partners for using Redmine and understanding that work needs to be planned and organized because without them I wouldn't know what to write about.

Of course, a special thanks to Jean-Philippe Lang and rest of Redmine's contributors for their efforts to maintain and improve Redmine as an open source product over last 10 years. Another special thanks to the people at Packt Publishing for all their hard work and providing me with an opportunity to express myself as international author and to give back to open source community by making Redmine a more credible and well-known product.