[dcphp-dev] Re: Operational question

You should cross-post your question on both Quora.com and in the DC Tech group on Facebook.  Both should net you a good response.  One option, though it is Rails based, is Redmine - I have used it and had good experiences with it.  It is open source and has a ton of plugins  that might be an alternative to basecamp.  I recall Keith Casey having worked on dot Project so that might be another option to check out.

On Thursday, August 15, 2013 2:14:40 PM UTC-4, Eric Maag wrote:

List,

I had a question I was going to pose at the meetup yesterday, it escaped me. While this is not a strictly PHP question, I figured that we're professionals here and might be able to provide some insight, input. If this question is deemed inappropriate for the group, I apologize in advance. 

As some of you might know I've been working as a freelancer/contractor for the last decade or so. I've been asked by a private design company to help them update their workflow and their general development process.  A little background, they are primarily a design shop that all of a sudden is seeing a increase in demand for digital work. They have in house capabilities to build drupal, wordpress and php sites, but right now everything is fast and loose. Typically the project manager handles the requirements/discovery which are then passed along to the developers and designers concurrently so that a proper divide and conquer approach can be applied to development. 

The development follows the typical 3 stage process, develop locally on a virtual machine which is then uploaded to the dev server where qa happens before being deployed. I know this is a broad question but I know there's certain things that need to be set up for them. Such a code repository which ideally I'll have them back up weekly off site, also some centralized project management like basecamp as well as bug tracking/trouble ticket system. 

There's a weekly check in meeting which seems to work, it's a small shop (8 people/ 2 devs) so implementing an agile methodology would be overkill and eat up way too much time. 

What other must haves as far as software or practices would you recommend, and any other gotchas ideas as far improving designer / developer dialogue?

I want to give a preemptive thank you for all and any responses.

Eric 

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