Questions about working together with co-workers or a team.
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How many developers before continuous integration becomes effective for us?
There is an overhead associated with continuous integration, e.g., set up, re-training, awareness activities, stoppage to fix "bugs" that turn out to be data issues, enforced separation of concerns ...
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5answers
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How does one become a leader in a team of programmers?
What skills, knowledge and talents should a junior programmer aim to obtain in order to be qualified to become a team leader?
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7answers
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What should junior developer expect from their senior team lead
Disclaimer: Opinions expressed are solely my own and do not express the views or opinions of my employer.
I work for a small company, in which few people are developers, others are QA/Test and 1 is ...
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6answers
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Helpful articles on the subject of managing programmers? [closed]
What are the most helpful articles on the subject of managing programmers? I came across this one recently, and thought it was excellent -
The unspoken truth about managing geeks
What else is out ...
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8answers
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How do you convince coworkers/stakeholders to try new technologies?
I've got a coworker/manager/stakeholder who is very conservative when it comes to adopting new technologies. I completely understand why: we have a lot of internal expertise with Java, MySQL/Postgres, ...
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32answers
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My boss decided to add a “person to blame” field to every bug report. How can I convince him that it's a bad idea?
In one of the latest "WTF" moves, my boss decided that adding a "Person To Blame" field to our bug tracking template will increase accountability (although we already have a way of tying bugs to ...
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16answers
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How do I deal with a slow and undedicated colleague in the team? [closed]
I have been working on a new project. The project works like this: The end user can access a webapp using a link and he can add multiple systems on his network and manage that particular systems ...
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13answers
1k views
Handling my antiquated coworker
I'm a fairly young programmer, and I work at a medium sized company's IT department. I have a coworker, and he is a really good Visual Basic 6 programmer. And I mean really good. Honestly. He can ...
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11answers
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Best tactics for avoiding colleague interruptions [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Dealing with interruptions / Working in solitary confinement?
... trouble is that it's so easy to get knocked out of the zone.
Noise, phone calls, going out for ...
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7answers
757 views
Easy way of engaging non-programmers (i.e. designers) into using version control?
What are some key ways of getting your team involved in using version control during development, web development or otherwise?
I refuse to work without it, which means anyone involved in the project ...
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5answers
423 views
What are your strategies to improve the level of your team in a clever way?
I'm looking for innovatives ways to improve the whole team & raise the global level in every aspects, not just technicals ones.
My actual solutions :
programming challenge vith votes, notes ...
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10answers
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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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5answers
775 views
How to find just starting OpenSource project and Join or find programmers for own? [duplicate]
Is there any place on the web where can I join a team when they are just starting their project?
Is there any place where developers can make groups for projects?
I know there are some /dev/forums ...
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4answers
492 views
Rolling your own Hackathon
Background Info
Hey, I pitched the idea of a company Hackathon that would donate our time to a charity to work on a project (for free) to improve morale in my company and increase developer cohesion. ...
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3answers
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What could be some pitfalls in introducing a style guide and documentation generating software in a development team?
I'm considering using appledoc, a flavor of Doxygen for use in generating Objective-C code documentation, in order to create documentation for my company's iOS apps. The idea is that a server will ...
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8answers
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Charles Barkley syndrome [closed]
Charles Barkley was an excellent basketball player, a hall of fame, and a dream team member. He played for the 76ers, Suns, and Rockets. Yet he never won an NBA championship. Some might argue this ...
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7answers
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Is recursion an instance of being “too clever” when programming?
I've read several books and learned through experience that optimizing code to the point where it is inscrutable, or coming up with an extremely fast but extremely complex solution to a problem is not ...
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4answers
364 views
Bounty points for fixing bugs?
Ever heard of a company awarding bounty points for bugfixes? Making team members work to do the most, as some bonus money will be dependent on it? Having them split, or pay bounties to others to ...
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5answers
511 views
How do I help a team member be more confident?
I have two team members who come from backgrounds that differ from what they're currently being asked to do: how can we encourage them to step up, develop their skills, and learn the new ways?
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23answers
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How can I deal with a team member who dislikes making comments in code?
One of my team members consistently avoids making comments in his code.
His code is not self-documenting, and other programmers have a difficult time understanding his code.
I have asked him ...
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8answers
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Avoiding “Smart Guy” Syndrome on Team Projects
A lot of bad practices were being committed at the beginning of a project, and I recognized them and fought against all of them. Since I didn't pick and choose my battles, my boss now assumes anything ...
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18answers
5k views
How to manage a developer who has poor communication skills
I manage a small team of developers on an application which is in the mid-point of its lifecycle, within a big firm. This unfortunately means there is commonly a 30/70 split of Programming tasks to ...
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20answers
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Why are a seemingly disproportionate amount of programmers just, well, not nice? [closed]
Maybe it's just my personal experience, but I associate with varying different groups and types of people and it seems to me that an oddly large percentage of programmers I have encountered are "not ...
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4answers
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How to create a “cult of quality”
DeMarco and Lister (Peopleware) suggest you create a "cult of quality" within your programming team. Frustratingly, they don't suggest how you go about doing that!
Anyone got any thoughts on how to ...
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22answers
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How do you educate your teammates without seeming condescending or superior?
I work with three other guys; I'll call them Adam, Brian, and Chris.
Adam and Brian are bright guys. Give them a problem; they will figure out a way to solve it. When it comes to OOP, though, they ...
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6answers
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How to explain the value of unit testing
I want to introduce the concept of unit tests (and testing in general) to my co-workers; right now there are no tests at all and things are tested by actually performing the tasks via the UI to see ...
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8answers
806 views
Too many seniors in one team?
Can having too many senior programmers in one team turn out to be a bad thing?
Having like say, 4-5 senior programmers in a team of 6-7 people.
What is the optimal number/ratio in these kind of ...
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4answers
566 views
best way to “introduce” OOP/OOD to team of experienced C++ engineers
I am looking for an efficient way, that also doesn't come off as an insult, to introduce OOP concepts to existing team members? My teammates are not new to OO languages. We've been doing C++/C# for ...
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7answers
474 views
Suggestions wanted on dealing with hyper territorial team
I have just started a new job and all is not well in neverland. I had high hopes for this company, but when I arrived, I walked into a team that I am having a hard time working with... The two ...
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10answers
361 views
What is the best way to discuss/plan/negotiate about code architecture remotely?
Our team is distributed in space and time, so we have no ability to discuss the architecture of the code in real time. How can we discuss it via documentation: write code interfaces/ comment/ modify, ...
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2answers
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If most of team can't follow the architecture, what do you do?
I'm working on a greenfields project with two other developers. We're all contractors, and myself and one other just started working on the project while the orginal one has been doing most of the ...
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14answers
966 views
What is the most effective/efficient way to develop an application with multiple people without source control?
Introduction to my situation
I work for a small web development company. We have a team of four ASP.NET developers, including me. Almost all of our projects (> 98%) are one-person projects that take ...
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3answers
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Study a project to be able to maintain it in future
I've joined as a fresher (trainee) a software company developing for Windows Store. I don't know much about C#. My company has started Windows Store development recently. They didn't do .Net ...
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4answers
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How do you deal with discovering bad and false code in your team? [duplicate]
Every year in january we process a big task with our system. While the performance during the task was above average the maintaince follow up is currently having a lot of trouble with jobs running too ...
6
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8answers
562 views
How should I introduce a coding standard to my team?
First a bit of background: My current development manager is taking another opportunity the end of this week, leaving our team with four fulltime developers, a part-time intern and a web designer ...
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2answers
264 views
How can a programmer work effectively with a remote web designer
I'm a programmer who understand html & css, but got no taste.
My company decided to redesign our e-commerce website with new UI and move to ASP.Net MVC.
They want a really good design, so they ...
