Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, securing, and managing resources to achieve specific goals.
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My team have a design doc requirement for any issues that take more than one week to do, Need some advice
All.
Sorry for rambling around, as a software developer, I try not to complain and focus on the fun part - programming. However, my team including myself were told to write a design document for ...
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Organizing Code Alongside a Large Neural Network
I am using the well documented and excellently maintained RetinaNet implementation in Keras Convolutional Neural Network to support some object detection tasks. I'm building a couple sets of ...
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Cloning Jira tickets at the end of a sprint - carrying over effort and points
I have been working with Jira within an Agile scrum like methodology for a while now. What happens quite often is a ticket is estimated and started on. By the end of the sprint 95% of the work is done....
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Dealing with software quirks
I was just reviewing some code and realised it is going to introduce the possibility for a situation where the numbers our staff use on a daily basis could be slightly out of line with the numbers we ...
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How to re-parent or move work items INTO a team backlog?
After asking this question
VSTS Scrum - What is the difference between Work Items vs Backlogs
I then was left with another question - how does one re-parent or move a work item to a team backlog? ...
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Self-organizing SCRUM teams and economic efficiency
As SCRUM teams are self-organized they are free to choose how to implement tasks.
However, isn't there a risk that teams could end up deciding to do for instance full re-writes (instead of constant ...
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Who writes functional specifications and how to track what has been done in a clear and effective manner [closed]
Background:
In a project where I work as a developer we did not use a functional specification at first. We relied solely on technical documentation, issues in Jira and mockups/detailed design for ...
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How to implement a development process with college students
At my first job as a software developer, my team used agile/scrum to manage our project workflow and it worked pretty good. I had some experienced mentors who set me on the right track - I owe them a ...
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How does the chance of project failure relate to project size? [closed]
A long time ago I learned that big projects are more likely to fail. One empirical study defined failure as "no line of code used in production". All the studies I know are decades old.
In the hope ...
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Persuading management that good software engineering is worth the effort [duplicate]
Background: I work for a small company which does not have a set of established best practices for designing software. I was hired to work on a project which gathers data from a stream, does some ...
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How to split a monorepo accross multiple teams each has access to only a slice of repo?
There is a lot of good advantages in monorepo, we also read that large companies like google and facebook use this tech to keep all source code in single repo.
But question is how do you manage to ...
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If higher story points represent exponentialy more effort why are they allocated linearly?
This is a standard confusion I've always had with the concept of story points. I've always been told that the complexity of story points should go up roughly exponentially. Essentially a task pointed ...
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How to deploy a junior programmer
I just hired a junior programmer and he will be 2nd real programmer next to me.
Our software is structured in git with the gitflow workflow. I normally develop and push straight on the development ...
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Manage several procedures
I have a software project which grows rapidly in an unexpected way, many customers request similar tasks but with slightly different needs and parameters. I start to dislike my current code structure ...
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At which moment should event storming be used?
I've recently seem event storming as a quite reasonable way to get understanding form a domain, in order to build a domain model. We understand the events in the domain, which for the domain experts ...
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As an author of a Pull Request in TFS, how does the reviewer know the PR needs to be re-reviewed?
I am project manager and I struggle with gaining the attention of the Reviewer of a pull request when the author has replied to a question from the Reviewer. In other words, the Reviewer initially put ...
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When tracking a Project plan, how carefully should we track the real situation?
Eg: Assume a task has been estimated to take 8 hours working time, for 1 person to complete. Supposing that person takes a break of 15 mins every 2 hours. Obviously the task will take 1 hour extra and,...
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What options are there to administrate a database for an online business? [closed]
Say you create a small online business from scratch, a nice Rails or Django app or something to that effect.
With luck, you end up with a database full of customer orders and things.
Now, aside ...
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Frontend and backend developer working on a project - who starts the tasks first?
Even though it depends on the context, I was wondering: during a project that requires a frontend and a backend developer, who most often starts with the tasks first? This assumes the web design is ...
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How to make the most out of a beginner-level development team?
I now find myself in a scenario, mentoring no more than 8 beginner-level developers and tasked with the development of a reasonably complex SPA website. It is to be developed using React (which the ...
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How do you cope with a team who tends to underestimate time needed to complete tasks?
How do you cope with a team who tends to underestimate time needed to complete tasks and haven't been improving the accuracy of their estimates?
Details:
I work in a scrum team (7 engineers) in a ...
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CRISP-DM, which phase and tasks relate to User Acceptance Testing?
EDIT:
The project is about creating an algorithm for Procedural Content Generation for a videogame. The actual game is secondary to the algorithm. It must be something basic to test the Procedural ...
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Handle changes to completed user stories
How can I handle change requests to already finished user-stories?
Let's say there is a user story which describes how the user wants to list entities.
The story describes further:
which ...
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Should I create two Django API projects or a single API project for different front end projects connecting to the same database?
We have created an LMS using Angular JS 1, Python(Django ) API and mongoDB as a database. Now we want to extend the LMS to make it a job portal. We have decided to create another front end project and ...
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Is Scrum incompatible with public tenders?
I was asked by a public organization to give an informal workshop about the 101 of agile development explaining terms and concepts of Scrum, Kanban, and the like. I have worked in agile environments ...
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My client wants 25% of comments in my current project, how to react? [closed]
junior developer here.
I am currently working alone on a web application for a big client of my company. I started last month.
The client wants at least 25% of comments in each of its software ...
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Decision making after planning phase?
Ok please dont downvote because im serious about this question. I hope im asking this in the right place.
At programming school they are currently teaching us about project management. Instead of ...
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Does it make sense to put WCF proxy lib into nuget?
In the enterprise environment we have a lot of windows programs and local WCF services. Programs are really light, they don't connect to the database directly, they use services. The problem is, that ...
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Is it generally helpful to include JIRA issues in code comments?
Once in a while, I leave comments like
# We only need to use the following for V4 of the computation.
# See APIPROJ-14 for details.
or
# We only need to use the following for V4 of the computation....
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How do I deal with projects within projects in python?
Note
I realise this could be subjective question to answer, but I don't expect an answer in the form of "Do this and everything will work out". I am aware there will probably be some decisions to be ...
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Repo management using Git or SVN
We have several ongoing projects and need to figure out the way to manage the repos.
The current situation is Project A is in production, in a SVN Repo A. Project B is in development for another ...
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How can we measure time spend on different activities on the project? (not tasks!)
For the simplification, I am talking here only about the time, invested into the project starting from the task being defined for developers and functionality being passed to testers.
AFAIK, the ...
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Is it feasible to use User Stories and Use Cases in the same team?
I am trying to encourage working practices that are more agile. I am trying to understand the difference between a Use Case and a User Story. I have read a lot of articles and questions like What'...
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How is it possible for large companies to run software development teams without Project Managers?
Note - This is about software engineering.
A friend at work said:
Did you know that Facebook and Atlassian have abolished project managers for their software dev teams?
This sounded familiar, ...
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How can we use RFCs in closed source projects?
I really love the way open source projects use RFC as a tool to get feedback and ideas from the wider community. I've been especially noticing this over the years with the way Ember have been doing ...
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The two-storey branching scheme **before** the develop branch
I have found many posts about how to organize work on develop branch and up to release branch. Or even how to work without the develop branch.
The trend of the "develop" branch going away, ...
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Can the Scrum method be used with only one person and only one 10 day Sprint? [duplicate]
So I have to do a project for about 10 days. About the work, lets just say Im going to develop a Website with a front-end and a few interfaces between internal services. Now I have to use a ...
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software disaster recovery when an engineer is suddenly unavailable
Recently in my company we had a project where the deadline was very tight, and everything was going according to plan until I was unavailable due to extreme personal issues.
Eventually we missed the ...
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Team collaboration with Maven - Java EE
For team of 6,
We have spring MVC project being developed with Angular as Frontend and Spring framework as back end.
From Java project build & version control aspect,
Is it recommended, to not ...
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Is it better to track bugs in lists (e.g. github issues, redmine) or in kanban boards (e.g. jira, trello)? [closed]
I need to decide on a bug tracking solution for our small dev team of 4 developers working on a web-based SaaS tool. There is plenty of products out there to use but one major difference seems to be ...
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Scaling an overgrown SCRUM team
Backstory
A scrum team is well defined. They have a PO, scrum master, clearly defined scope. The workload increases, as more and more projects are covered and need to be maintained, but it is still ...
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Any formula to decide whether to use a script (eg bash) or code an app (LAMP)?
We have a few different apps X,Y,X from different third parties and we want to pull the data into a central app C, so when users enter data into C they can pre-populate forms with related data. If ...
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My project shows errors unexpectedly. Is there a good method that can be used to plan a project before starting and deploying it? [closed]
I have completed a project. But errors unexpectedly occurs anytime when the user inputs data in it. Yesterday my program was performing very well.
But today when the client tested the project it had ...
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Contributions of a problematic team member to an open source project [closed]
I'm currently coordinating the development of a software for a certain scientific computational task. The developers are all working on the project on a voluntary basis. Our goal is to publish the ...
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How can I organize 3 software engineers to work together with 2 clients?
I started working in a stock broker that hired me and more two developers to build a piece of software to help them.
I am the newest member of the development team. My friend, another developer in ...
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Developer code access [closed]
I work part-time in a very new startup, our software team consists of 3 people, including a project manager. I had some free time waiting on the hardware maintenance to be complete, so I decided to ...
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Scrum team size - how small is too small?
How small can a scrum team before it's no longer effective? Are there diminishing returns or hard limits on team size before you should abandon scrum?
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How to schedule “piece of string” tasks
We have an old database which is used to hold supporting information about the financial system. Most of the actual code in are in Views which consolidate the supporting data with the financial data (...
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Documenting a new feature
I have recently started working on a complex project and recently had a team meeting where a new feature was discussed. I am not happy with the current architecture, because the system is undocumented....
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Is there marginal benefit in fixing bugs [closed]
I have heard from a former colleague that not all bugs need to be fixed, because as you go down the priority list of bugs, the use case which causes that bug becomes more obscure, or the customer ...
