Re: [CODE4LIB] Back-of-house software

2016-05-12 Thread Esmé Cowles
One of the great things you can customize in JIRA is the workflow, which lets you make the tool work the way you want it to instead of having to live with a pre-set workflow. You can have different workflows for different projects, so the workflow can be tailored for different groups, or tasks,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Back-of-house software

2016-05-12 Thread Cynthia Ng
I've had some experience with JIRA, Redmine, and RT, and I think part of it has to do with how much time you want to put into customizing the system to fit your needs before you start using it. Here's my quick run down as I've experienced them. JIRA - can be customized greatly, but can a lot of ti

Re: [CODE4LIB] Back-of-house software

2016-05-12 Thread Donahue, Rachel
Disclaimer: This is my personal experience and does not reflect the views of, nor represent an endorsement by, my employer. We use Jira in Special Collections to manage all of our tasks, including reference requests, web development, and collection processing. Our digitization unit also uses it

Re: [CODE4LIB] Back-of-house software

2016-05-11 Thread Cary Gordon
There was someone in the Drupal in Libraries BoF today at DrupalCon who mentioned it. But who? Cary > On May 11, 2016, at 10:12 AM, Charlie Morris wrote: > > I wonder if anyone out there is using RedHen ( > https://www.drupal.org/project/redhen). I've always been curious about it. > > On Wed,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Back-of-house software

2016-05-11 Thread Charlie Morris
I wonder if anyone out there is using RedHen ( https://www.drupal.org/project/redhen). I've always been curious about it. On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 11:01 AM, Mike Smorul wrote: > I'll put up a vote for redmine. We use it w/ a few commercial plugins from > redminecrm (helpdesk, crm, and ticket-chec

Re: [CODE4LIB] Back-of-house software

2016-05-11 Thread Shaughnessy, Peggy
@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Mike Smorul [msmo...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 9:01 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Back-of-house software I'll put up a vote for redmine. We use it w/ a few commercial plugins from redminecrm (helpdesk, crm, and ticket-check

Re: [CODE4LIB] Back-of-house software

2016-05-11 Thread Mike Smorul
I'll put up a vote for redmine. We use it w/ a few commercial plugins from redminecrm (helpdesk, crm, and ticket-checklists) to handle most of our internal procedures and process documentation. Specifically its positioned to handle the following: * Internal infrastructure changelogs (tickets) and

Re: [CODE4LIB] Back-of-house software

2016-05-11 Thread Erin White
Following this thread closely to see what y'all use. We evaluated our institution's IT support desk software and found the interface pretty hostile to problem-submitters. Instead we've stuck with our own in-house problem reporting system that has a much simpler user interface. It meets many busine

Re: [CODE4LIB] Back-of-house software

2016-05-11 Thread Ben Companjen
Hi Stuart, First thought (or what should have been my first thought): what problem(s) are you trying to solve? I sometime wish I had software that is better geared for service management (including incident management, CRM and documentation), but in our small organisation with three main servic

[CODE4LIB] Back-of-house software

2016-05-10 Thread Stuart A. Yeates
I’m looking for recommendations for software to run our much of our academic library back-of-house business-as-usual work. Things like incident management, CRM, documentation management, etc across three tiers of support. We’re looking for something more structured than a mediawiki wiki (which we’