Questions tagged [project-management]
Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, securing, and managing resources to achieve specific goals.
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How can I keep track of which existing lines of code/text have passed some new review?
Firstly, this is a really tough topic to do searches for because you get a wealth of information on “code review”, which is different from what I’m referring to here. That normally refers to ...
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Using project management tools like MS Project or Primavera in an agile team [migrated]
Do project management tools like MS Project and Primavera make sense in a software team and for a software product, assuming that the team is following agile practices and uses, e.g., Scrum. Are ...
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How to develop an app with freelancers?
I used to be a software developer, but I left the industry three years ago. I now have an idea for an app I'd like to develop. Back when I was a developer, I had mixed feelings about using freelancers,...
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Hotel restaurant menu ordering process
With my team I’m facing a problem.
For a hotel, we are asked to develope a cloud application that will let guests taking orders from hotel restaurant menu trough their devices.
To access the menu, ...
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Cost estimation from agile story points
I am new to project management. I have been through a series of lectures.
I am stuck with a problem and have no idea how to proceed with it. I would highly appreciate it if anybody could give me ...
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How does a database implementor migrate their database engine to a new data structure?
I am working on implementing a database of sorts and am stuck wanting to make it perfect from the get go because I realize I don't know how to migrate the database engine from one data structure to ...
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How to improve the “truck factor” in my development team?
I'm currently a developer in a team of size 3-4 and I am concerned our team is not at all resilient to me taking days off or saying goodbye.
Two years ago when I arrived at the company I made the ...
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How to handle a manager/programmer clash on classic problem with focus on current cycle versus focus on strategic issues [closed]
In one of the company's im involved with there is a problem between one manager and a programmer. They are both very good at their jobs, but there is constant clashes. I would like to get some ...
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Advice regarding tools and insights from sprints on developer performance
I would like to get some help or ideas regarding the usage of JIRA and getting insights from it.
I just joined a small company as a junior project manager. In the last several sprints, Developer "...
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What's the scope of the Definition of Done in Scrum?
The Scrum Guide isn't very explicit about the scope of the Definition of Done.
Is it supposed to be:
defined in general for the project?
defined per sprint or per increment?
defined per story?
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Difference between a Software Requirement, a Feature and an Objective
I'm working on my first ever software project. Being the only one working on it, I'm making the work breakdown structure and I know requirement gathering is an important phase in the development ...
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Perfect product vs progressive releases
There can be some approaches regarding releasing a software product:
Perfection before launch to generate a technical gap with rivals
Progressive frequent releases and getting user feedback
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Adding a new developer just before deadline is horrible. But what is not?
Imagine a project is assigned to a team, deadline is estimated as 8 months. After 6 months it becomes apparent the project will most certainly not be complete on time(e.g a law changes or a hidden ...
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Why are code readability and debugging arguments often expressed as a counter-argument for the use of generated LR parsers?
When it comes to using an LR parser generated by a tool, such as Bison, a disadvantage that often comes up as counterarguments is that the resulting parser will be unreadable and complicated to debug, ...
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Outsourcing The MVP development
our company wants to outsource the development of MVP. Since it is my first project as a product manager, I am expecting
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Technical specifications i.e. language, database, DevOps & ...
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Should we include the entire sources of the libraries used in our project?
I'm used to using static link libraries in my projects. This doesn't make the solution heavier and allows to be updated more easily.
However, I see some GitHub repos providing in their sources the ...
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Defining componentcontracts (XSD) manually in a large organisation to facillitate communication between componentteams feels bad
We have 22 (.NET, webservice based) componentteams each consisting of atleast 3 developers and 1 buisiness analist. To make sure every one of the 22 components integrates without trouble, we work what ...
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How to harness the chaos within the development team?
I'm a rather experienced software developer. I worked with many teams and projects throughout my career so far. The recent two projects, however, challenged me in an unusual way. Namely: they were ...
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How can a client support agile development methodology?
My company works in the field of public infrastructure in Europe, specifically as a software provider and operator. All of our development work is currently outhoused, to two main suppliers relevant ...
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How to improve my development strategy?
I am writing a program for Windows, which uses two databases. One is very big (dozens of tables and thousands of records) and comes from another program, but I only download data from it. Second is "...
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C++ Project Structure in UNIX/Linux environment: test and app folder
I am trying to figure out the right project structure for C++ and I am working on Ubuntu using CMake. I mostly work on AI/ Robotics/ Data Science. Assume that I want to generate executables and ...
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What Comes First, Project Planning or Requirment Analysis?
By first, i mean i have read articles which puts project planning as the first phase of the sdlc.
In my opinion it should come after the requirement analysis and specification, because if you dont ...
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Is there any type of development platforms for systems which have both electronic and mechanical components together with software components?
I am starting to work in a company. In this company, we have a set of products. These products are inherently related and have many shared functionalities and parts. Each of our products consists of a ...
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How to catch “continuous ongoing tasks” into a scrum system?
Well in working with scrum it's always seen as important to make clearly defined stop and start points of small tasks.
However how do you capture "ongoing" tasks into a scrum system?
Like on friday ...
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Do we need project managers in the agile organisation when doing software development or are the project governance replaced by product governance? [duplicate]
Q: Do we need project managers in the agile organisation when doing software development or are the project governance replaced by product governance?
There are several questions asked and answered ...
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Where can I put project dependencies
I've just finished my studies in Computer Science and now I'm working.
The problem is I'm the only computer scientist in my company and I'm probably taking a lot of bad habits. I would like to correct ...
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How does COCOMO handle large projects that could be split up into smaller projects?
Let's say I want to use COCOMO to estimate the effort to produce a 100 KLoC embedded project. Not including the Effort Adjustment Factor, the effort would be 2.8 * 100^1.2 = 703. However, the project ...
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How to keep developers informed about a code library in large organizations?
Although our products often have the same requirements, the solutions are always developed anew. From different people, with different good results and different quality. A code library especially for ...
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If adding people to a late project makes things worse, what options DO work?
I am working on a project with a fixed deadline (there are financial penalties if we are late or drop any features).
We are late.
My project manager keeps asking if we can add people so we can get ...
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Should i accept that a client adds changes to sourcecode on an ongoing development?
I'm currently in a situation (i'm a technical lead) where the client has modified on his own the source code, and i'm being told to accept the changes and keep working on that version. Technically he ...
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My project manager does not accept carry-over in Scrum - is that normal?
I am a developer working on a new mobile app for Android and iOS with a big backend component. We have been in three sprints of this project, and we use Scrum with all of its ceremonies (refinement, ...
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Product Backlog items estimation - How to avoid estimations in hours when there is no team velocity and team is new?
This is the case:
A new team which consists of 6 people. They are a new team so there is no velocity that can be used for further sprint planning.
A problem:
The project manager wants to know when ...
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How relevant is DSDM nowadays?
After recent years working mostly with SLA, Incident Management and ITSM, I'm considering moving back to software development management and agile methodology. I'm returning to SCRUM lessons and would ...
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Where should I start with an Integration Test for a Legacy Software in .NET? [closed]
Currently, I'm planning a new project of CI/CD with Azure DevOps (with Git, already committed) for an old Solution, which contains 17 C# projects.
Technically, we have access to the source code and it'...
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How to communicate a SWAG estimate
I support a large enterprise software project which frequently receives enhancement requests from our customer. The customer will only pay for the work up front in fixed-price contracts. We provide a ...
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C++ dependency management across projects
We are developing a benchmarking framework in C++, with Make and CMake as build tools. The aim of the framework is to allow others who build algorithms to perform head-to-head comparison against prior ...
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Is it a software engineer's responsibility to structure data as opposed to a DBA?
As a backend engineer at a small company, we're running into a question of whether we need a DBA or another backend engineer (SWE2). The reason why this is a question stems from a difficulty in ...
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Process For Closing Unsolvable Help Desk Tickets
Sometimes, on an IT helpdesk, you have tickets with a few shared characteristics.
They're low priority--just minor annoyances to user
They're extremely hard to reproduce for testing
You've exhausted ...
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How to handle interface change between back-end and front-end during development
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In our development team, we divide developers into back-end and front-end teams. To develop a feature for a website, the 2 teams have to work in parallel. We starts by analyzing the ...
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Develop distributed system contain application with poor architecture [duplicate]
In last months the business continues dynamic grow so we must develop new features along distributed system. Unfortunately we do not have much time to deliver new solutions.
The application is ...
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How to lead a team full of junior developers? [closed]
Currently I'm leading a team of 4 developers, all of them started their careers 5-6 months ago. I can consider ourselves lucky, as we've been assigned to a greenfield project, it's completely up to us ...
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Is project planning considered an 'umbrella activity'?
Umbrella activities are defined as "the non SDLC activities that span across the entire software development life cycle".
Considering this definition, can we say that project planning is an umbrella ...
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How to differentiate between done and closed-for-other-reaons issues in GitLab?
In GitLab, an issue is usually closed once a Merge Request is approved and merged into master.
However, what should happen with issues that are closed because of other reasons?
There could be ...
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Start frontend development with incomplete analysis, delayed backend and no API
To give a bit of context first, I have been tasked to mentor an internship on creating a UI for a certain business need:
Already 4 months were spend on analyzing, creating the business use cases ...
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How to handle a software design project when I am the only member of the team with any design experience
Some background
I am the newest member of a small team of 3 developers. For the past two years I have been working with them on an application the two of them made roughly 5-6 years ago. This ...
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How to efficiently handle a scrum project when part of development team are from external firm?
In my organisation for one of the project we follow Agile Scrum methodology and following is distribution of the man power for the project:
Scrum Team:
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ProxyDev1(Internal): 50% in the project
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Does Scrum create additional overhead for projects where requirements don't change?
I'm reading the Scrum - A Pocket Guide by Gunther Verheyen and it says:
The Chaos report of 2011 by the Standish Group marks a turning point. Extensive research was done in comparing traditional ...
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Should a (junior) developer try to push for better processes and practices in their development/IT team?
I'm a junior developer that is given the ability to help shape my team's processes if I can justify the change, and if it helps the team get work done. This is new for me as my past companies more or ...
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How do you manage context switching overhead in software development when getting back to work over different parts of your project? [closed]
I'm really struggling with overheads of context switching. When I need to continue work on some part of the code after a break, it takes up to an hour to recall all the context of the problem I ...
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Does every member of an agile team need to be a software developer?
We recently started using agile methodologies at my company. Because I am quite new to agile, I wonder if our way of implementing it is correct according to the basic principles of agile.
Previously, ...
