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How do you get past the Analysis to Paralysis when working on a new project?
I've been struggling with how to get my project going. I've got an old software package that is in need of desparate rewrite. I haven't compiled the source code since 2004. It still sells, it's stable ...
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R vs Python for data analysis
I have been programming for about a year and I am really interested in data analysis and machine learning. I am taking part in a couple of online courses and am reading a couple of books.
Everything ...
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How prototypal inheritance is practically different from classical inheritance?
Inheritance, Polymorphism, and Encapsulation are the three most distinct, important features of OOP, and from them, inheritance has a high usage statistics these days.
I'm learning JavaScript, and ...
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How to become good at object-oriented analysis and design (OOAD)?
Becoming a good analyzer and designer can greatly benefit a developer. But there are definitely obstacles for this. Not everybody is interested in OOAD, and not every person who is interested, knows ...
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What is the acceptable error margin when estimating a project duration?
The company where I work is aiming to have a 10% maximum error margin.They expect analysts to not miss the estimate by more or less than 10%.
I don't know what to think about it, since I got nothing ...
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How analysis is different from design?
I'm sure you all have heard managers saying that "we need an analyzer", or "we need a designer". While I'm a .NET developer, I hardly can differentiate an analyzer from a designer (not web designer or ...
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How do you go about understanding others' code?
What do you do to understand some code that you didn't write? Or code that you wrote long time ago and don't remember what it does anymore.
Do you have some technique that you go about? Do you ...
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Interpreting Others' Source Code
Note: I am aware of this question. This question is a bit more specific and in-depth, however, focusing on reading the actual code rather than debugging it or asking the author.
As a student in an ...
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How many copies are needed to enlarge an array?
I am reading an analysis on dynamic arrays (from the Skiena's algorithm manual).
I.e. when we have an array structure and each time we are out of space we allocate a new array of double the size of ...
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Should an analysis be technology-agnostic?
I had an argument yesterday with one of my colleagues. He (a business-analyst, previously a programmer) thinks that he should be aware of the technology used to implement the system, so he can take ...
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Technique to Solve Hard Programming logic
I have heard about many techniques which are used by developer/software manager to solve hard programming logic or to create flow of an application and this flow will be implemented by developers to ...
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Theta notation on constant time. Why we use the 1?
In asymptotic notation when it is stated that if the problem size is small enough (e.g. n<c for some constant c) the solution takes constant time and is writen as Theta(1).
Why we write 1 inside ...
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How much information can a user reasonably process from a UI?
As an example, say there's an interface that contains a table/grid of information that is periodically updated. The table is meant to represent an event that has happened, perhaps the date and time ...
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Space complexity of Iterative Deepening DFS
We read on Wikipedia > Iterative deepening depth-first search that
The space complexity of IDDFS is O(bd), where b is the branching factor and d is the depth of shallowest goal.
Wikipedia also ...
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Development methodology for single web developer? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Design and Development Methodologies for the single developer
I'm a web developer who mostly works with the LAMP stack when it comes to my own projects. Most of the time ...
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What is the difference between requirements Elicitation and Requirements Analysis in the real world?
My question aim to draw a fine line between Requirements Elicitation and Requirements Analysis. What is the difference between these two?
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Question about Cyclomatic Complexity
I am new to static analysis of code. My application has a Cyclomatic complexity of 17,754 lines of code. The application itself is only 37,672 lines of code. Is it valid to say that the complexity is ...
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How to model the components of a non Information System?
I am working on a kernel-related project (specifically related to the TCP/IP stack of the kernel).
I need to build some models to describe the functionality and components of my system.
Initially I ...
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Is programming experience useful to become a Business Analyst? [closed]
Is programming experience important to become a BA?
I have an opportunity to switch from programming to BA in IT, but I am not sure what to do. In the future, I want to proceed as BA only. Does ...
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Data structure for pattern matching
Let's say you have an input file with many entries like these:
date, ticker, open, high, low, close, <and some other values>
And you want to execute a pattern matching routine on the ...
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Technical analysis in software development
What should a good technical analysis include in software development?
Why do we need a technical analysis? why can't we just start coding?
I got this question from a customer who won't pay for the ...
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Where to start a software Analysis & Designing?
I am starting a big database-oriented software project to develop. I have full picture of the software in mind. I need to do the designing using UML. As there are various tools in UML such as usecase, ...
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Writing use cases for a rather complex scenario
I'm trying to improve my use-case writing skills but I'm stuck on a certain scenario.
The idea is that there are a bunch of entries in a task list (some kind of todo list). Now the user wishes to ...
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Agile Development & Interaction with Developers
I have read in few blogs that as part of agile development , the product owner closely interact with developers to state their requirements and come up with a solution. However in case of a large ...
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Requirement gathering in an agile methodology
In the great book User Stories Applied the author specified the following process for trawling requirements in the form of user stories:
Create user roles (personas) --> brainstorm user goals for ...
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What criteria could be used to rank popular blog posts?
I am building a service that finds popular posts from several blogs. What criteria could I use to define what the most popular posts are?
For example, I track Facebook and Twitter share counts for ...
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Should sales staff interfere in application analysis and design?
We're working on a kind of CMS, a fast, hosted, centralized website builder like Weebly. We also use Scrum development model. But there seems to be some problems here. Our sales manager always come to ...
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Any requirements tool recommendation?
BAs in my company use Word, Excel and Visio for requirements definition reasonably well.
What are the key advantages and disadvantages of using a requirements tool instead?
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Is Usage Tracking esoteric or state of the art?
There are several products for tracking the usage of your application. I know at least 10 offers. They tell you which features were used more often than others. Thus, you can identify features that ...
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Storing and analyzing rock climbing difficulty
I'm working on a WordPress plugin to manage rock climbing data, and I need to think of a way to store rock climbing grades from all of the different systems in a unified way. There are many different ...
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Wolfram is out, any alternatives? Or how to go custom?
We were originally planning on using wolfram alpha api for a new project but unfortunately the cost was entirely way to high for what we were using it for. Essentially what we were doing is ...
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how do you manage application performance reviews
I have been trying to figure out ways to effectively do performance reviews before an install happens for all releases done by our team. Do you usually make this a part of code review process or do ...
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can an object in a sequence diagram send a message call to the user?
I need to make a sequence diagram and I'm not sure how to represent user input.
Is it correct to have a message be sent from an object to the user asking for user input or should all objects be ...
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Available options for classifying words in text?
I am researching ways to classify words in text and I'm wondering what options there are and which are best suited to this job. I'm mostly interested in keywords which are most often nouns.
So far I ...
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Looking for session/event analytics analysis tool
I have data that is basically made up of a set of sessions filled with events.
For example:
Session1 - [Event1] [Event2] [Event3]...[Event64]
Session2 - [Event1] [Event3] [Event4]...[Event64]
The ...
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How much should I worry about modeling/analyzing a web application?
I'm developing kind of a modern web application - scalable, robust and fast.
I need to develop it as fast as I can.
How much should I worry about the analysis phase or writing UML diagrams or ER ...
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How to effectively define requirements on a complex project requiring collaboration from many people with less than great personal relationship
I am working on a project that is basically a rewrite of an old batch based system that now should run online. The old system is complex and poorly documented and best source of information are people ...
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Saving all hits to a web app
Are there standard approaches to persisting data for every hit that a web app receives? This would be for analytics purposes (as a better alternative to log mining down the road).
Seems like Redis ...
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Books or help on OO Analysis
I have this course where we learn about the domain model, use cases, contracts and eventually leap into class diagrams and sequence diagrams to define good software classes.
I just had an exam and I ...
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economic viability analysis for an iPhone app
I have to do an economic viability analysis for an iPhone app and I do not know if you could help me in some questions like link text:
How can I estimating an iPhone application development costs?
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How do I debug a cluster running Microsoft server 2003?
I'm sole developer of a complex critical software system, written in Visual C++ 2005.
It's deployed on a classical Microsoft cluster scenario (active/passive), that has Windows Server 2003 R2.
If a ...
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Empirical average values of various metrics?
I'm not sure if this is the correct site, but to compare a software project I'm looking for average values of various metrics. Are there any references that show average values for each of the ...
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What are some important analytics for a SaaS Product Dashboard?
Question:
What are some important analytics for a SaaS Product Dashboard?
Background:
I will be making a dashboard for administration of our product. In this dashboard gathering some analytics for a ...
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What design and planning techniques are the most suitable for individual projects?
This summer I'd like to develop a number of applications, all of them relatively small, yet risky -they're complex, I'm inexperienced-. I'm gonna work on my own because my classmates or other IT ...
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Algorith analysis refresher help
I haven't touched algorithm complexity stuff in quite a while, so I am trying to do a refresher.
I am trying to figure out the number of steps in the following for loop.
for(i = 0; i < n; ...
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Is there a real difference between dynamic analysis and testing?
Often testing is regarded as a dynamic analysis of a software. Yet while writing my thesis, the reviewer noted to me that dynamic analysis is about analyzing the program behind the scenes - e.g. ...
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How would I go about measuring the impact an article has on the internet?
For an application of mine, I analyze the sentiment of articles, using NLTK, to display sentiment trends. But right now all articles weigh the same amount. This does not show a very accurate picture ...
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Functional Requirements / Specification and relationship to DEV and QA
Functional Requirements state "WHAT" needs to be done from a user's perspective
Functional Specification state "HOW" it needs to be done from technical standpoint.
Do QA teams focus and Functional ...
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What is the difference between system analysis and system requirement analysis [closed]
Are "system analysis" and "system requirement analysis" the same thing? I think system system analysis is broader term and system requirement analysis is part of it. Is this correct?
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Examples of programmable systems?
Sorry about the title, I don't know how to express this correctly, but here's a try.
In our systems analysis and design subject, we were tasked to find a company/school/organization, and create a ...
