Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, securing, and managing resources to achieve specific goals.
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Should I be looking for developers with specific skill sets or generalists that need to learn?
Thanks to the great help of this site and SO, I've been able to make a prototype of a software I want to sell but unfortunately although the prototype works I think my code quality is very low. I ...
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How can I get better at explaining complex software processes to developers?
I'm really struggling with my software specs. I am not a professional programmer but enjoy doing it for fun and made some software that I want to sell later but I'm not happy with the code quality. ...
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In a team practicing Domain Driven Design, should the whole team participate in Stakeholder meetings?
In my experience, a Software Development Team that comprises:
1 Project Manager
1 Tech Lead
1 - 2 Senior Dev
2 - 3 Junior Dev (Fresh grad)
Only the Tech Lead & PM (and/or Senor Dev/s) will ...
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Programming vs Planning
Recently, I have been tasked with more high-level planning assignments due to the lead developer of my team leaving. I hate long-term planning. My brain just doesn't naturally seem wired for it, and ...
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How to measure the right time to bring a new client? [closed]
My growing company has a team of developers working on a number of separate projects. Our developers depend on us to keep them working, and we depend on them to make our clients happy. Our projects ...
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is SCRUM useful for the project's success? [closed]
I work for a company as a Project Manager. My company want us to get training in SCRUM and is sponsoring the training. So is SCRUM useful for the project's success?
Should I go for the SCRUM ...
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Can Foswiki be used as a distributed Redmine replacement?
I am quite familiar with and love using git, among other reasons due to its distributed nature. Now I'd like to set up some similarly distributed (FOSS) Project Management software with features ...
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Community Programming
Background
I just began working for a religious non-profit organization. As with most non-profits, the organization is resource-poor and has no IT department to speak of. In my two months here I've ...
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Case insensitive keywords in a language
We're trying to write a custom scripting language. There has been a suggestion to make the language forgiving by providing case insensitive keywords.
I personally do not like the idea, but there are ...
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Need to find a find a fast/multi-user database program [closed]
Our company is currently utilizing Excel and have been encountering a series of issues for starters we have multiple users sharing this application. We utilize it write our schedules for our employees ...
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How to handle “porting” software that's still in development
My company is building an iOS version of an Android app that our client is developing (but has not yet released). We have access to the latest builds and source, however since the software is ...
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What should be the minimal design/scope documentation before development begins?
I am a junior developer working on my own in the programming aspect of projects.
I am given a png file with 5-6 of the pages designed, most times in specific detail. From this I'm asked to develop ...
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How can we unify business goals and technical goals?
Some background
I work at a small startup: 4 devs, 1 designer, and 2 non-technical co-founders, one who provides funding, and the other who handles day-to-day management and sales. Our company ...
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By what features and qualities are “free” and “premium” themes differentiated
I have a lot of time invested in creating Wordpress templates. I want to release combinations of these templates along with different styles and Fancy Front pages as "Premium Wordpress Themes". What I ...
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How to add a new developer to the team
I run a small company composed of only 2 developers. We are building a very big application for one of our clients. Development on this project has gone on for 1.5 years.
Now this client has secured ...
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What are some general guidelines for setting up an iOS project I will want to personally publish but sell in the future?
I have an idea for a personal iOS project that I would like to write and release to the iOS store. I'm the type of developer who enjoys developing and publishing. I want to write quality software ...
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Certification for software project estimation [closed]
Is there a certification for software project estimation which is recognized in the industry?
I think I have fair experience in estimation. I would like to get a certification done which I can use my ...
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Code bases for desktop and mobile versions of the same app
I have written a small Java Swing desktop application. It seems like a natural step to port it to Android since I am interested in learning how to program for that platform. I believe that I can reuse ...
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How do I hire testers by giving them a buggy app for testing their efficiency?
My boss wants to recruit testers based on their testing efficiency (number of bugs identified). So, he's shortlisted 5 people and I need to give them an app full of bugs and see how they fare in ...
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Good practices for large scale development/delivery of software
What practices do you apply when working with large teams on multiple versions of a software or multiple competing projects? What are best practices that can be used to still get the right things done ...
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How would you manage development between many Staging branches?
We have a Staging Branch. Then we came out with a Beta branch for users to move whenever they wanted to from old Production branch to the new features.
Our plan seemed simple, we test on Staging, ...
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Software Management Tools for Agile Process Development [closed]
We would like to implement the Agile/ Scrum process in our daily software management, so as to provide better progress visibility and feature managements, here are some of the activities that we want ...
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What to do when you inherit an unmaintainable codebase? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Techniques to re-factor garbage and maintain sanity?
I've inherited 200K lines of spaghetti code — what now?
I'm currently working at a company with 2 other ...
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How to adopt scrum agile methodology for a small .Net team [closed]
I am working on a small product based company developing .Net applications. There is a small team with 5-6 developers. I am a person responsible for planning everything. But my primary role is ...
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Are there any nice, integrated solutions for Bug/Time tracking and Project Management? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Are there complete packages for bug/time tracking, invoices and project management?
A similar question was asked 2 years ago: Are there complete packages for bug/time ...
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How best to keep bumbling, non-technical managers at bay and still deliver good work? [closed]
This question may be considered subjective (I got a warning) and be closed, but I will risk it, as I need some good advice/experience on this.
I read the following at the 'About' page of Fog Creek ...
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How to manage scripting language file (Python, for example)? [closed]
I am writing python, but I find that the I can put all the script files on the directory, but it seems very messy. So, is there any conventions in the community to deal with the script files? Thanks.
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What do I need to learn to decide on rename/recompile source package names because of company rebranding?
My company is currently at a rebranding process and the brand names have been used in the sources' package names but these names are only visible to developers who maintain this code so nobody from ...
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Version control and project management for freelancing jobs
Are there version control and project management tools which "work well" with freelancing jobs, if I want to keep my customer involved in the project at all times?
What concerns me is that repository ...
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Project frozen - what should I leave to the people after me?
So the project I've been working on is now going to be frozen indefinitely. It is possible that if and when the project unfreezes again, it won't be assigned to me or anybody from the current team. ...
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CTO has left — codebase is a huge kludge, any advice on how to manage/handle/damage control? [closed]
I began work at a company 2 months ago as a PHP developer. I stepped in to somewhat of a kludge, but I've yet to find a company that isn't... The development stable is currently two developers ...
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Git workflow / practices for a small project (flowchart in png)
I'm trying to come up with a personal workflow. I've put together a flowchart of the hypothetical lifespan of a release: one developer pushing to a public github repo + a friend helping with some ...
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How to manage/organise when you have to multi-task on multiple 1 man projects? [closed]
We are a team of developers working on multiple small projects - a developer could have 3 or more 1 man projects to work on and keep moving. It can feel like your time is pretty fragmented & ...
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What to do when the lead programmer is doing almost zero work? [closed]
I am currently working on a project with a small dev team. The problem is that the lead programmer is "working remotely", and does virtually no work. We have missed every deadline, and at this rate we ...
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How much should a floating license cost?
Floating licensing is a software licensing approach in which a limited number of licenses for a software application are shared among a larger number of users over time. Nice for the corporates to ...
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How to fix a project with basically no structure?
I've been working on a software project mostly solo for over 5 years. It was a mess to begin with (I am the third or fourth developer to be working on it), and although it's less of a mess now it is ...
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How big does my project need to be for me to unit test it?
I assume that my project is decoupled enough to allow for unit testing. But how big, exactly, in terms of clases and functions does my project need to be to make unit testing worthwhile?
We all make ...
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When, how and why should one upgrade (Java) frameworks?
Short summary as introduction:
We are a small Java web development team, creating applications using various frameworks and libraries like JSF, Hibernate, Seam, all together deployed in JBoss AS.
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Working on multiple things at work?
I was curious to know, if juggling between 2-3 projects at a time is a good or a common practice or not. When I say, 2-3 projects I mean:
1. 1 primary project,
2. 1 project with minor ...
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How can I motivate my teammates to work? [closed]
I've been recruited in a small team of seven developers about 4 months ago on a small scale Java project involving a basic game development, where each programmer has to do a certain part. For example ...
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Biggest obstacles to working on a group project [closed]
I'm doing my first group project in a class where most quarters 40% of the students have failed. I believe the reason for this is the poor quality of teaching in the class. For example, the instructor ...
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How to implement a software development process in an existing project?
My question involves setting up a Software Development process. If you came in to an existing project that had no formal methodology or process set up, and then were asked to set one up yourself, how ...
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Why can't the IT industry deliver large, faultless projects quickly as in other industries?
After watching National Geographic's MegaStructures series, I was surprised how fast large projects are completed. Once the preliminary work (design, specifications, etc.) is done on paper, the ...
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Project Management - Asana / activeCollab / basecamp / alternative / none [closed]
I don't know whether this should be on programmers - I've been looking at the above three apps over the past few weeks just for myself and I'm in two minds. All three look good, are easy to use, and I ...
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BitBucket working with multiple developers on same project
I am new to BitBucket. I have my repository. And 2 people working on it me, Admin and another developer with Read only access.
So in order for him to do changes he forked repository and made changes, ...
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Documentation degrading - how to deal with it?
Important: we have no issues whatsoever with source code documentation. This belongs to regular code audit and is kept up to date. Our problem is with developers documentation (or, "external" if you ...
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How to utilize Xcode project & target to manage products?
At first, hopefully following terms project and product won't be confused.
Traditionally, we used to have a code base, which usually was a main project. For our products, we created one project for ...
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What do you say in a code review when the other person built an over complicated solution? [closed]
The other day I reviewed code someone on my team wrote. The solution wasn't fully functional and the design was way over complicated-- meaning stored unnecessary information, built unnecessary ...
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Is it better to find issues myself or let the computer figure it out?
I'm about to start the process of migrating a program from one component to another. Most of the core functionality will be the same but I'll need to change database calls, etc. I'm sure there will ...
