Do you take the entire asset management into consideration when planning your source control solution. For instance: images, external links, content, specs and data? I know there enough to wrestle with in getting source control to work effectively, but I often see okay source management, but manual manipulation of the other related asse...
As developers, we believe that not having local administrative access is going to severely handicap our productivity. We will be restricted from running IIS (we’re a web development shop), installing applications, running Microsoft power tools, etc. If you’re going through the FDCC process now, it would be great to hear how you are cop...
Hello, What is your company solution for PPM (managing projects, demands, timesheets, etc)? And what is your experience with it? I'm trying to know about the tool prespective and not your company's particular business process. Regards for you all! ...
No, not literally. Rather, do you have any red tape horror stories of policies that affected your ability to produce quality software? I'm not talking about general human resources or systems administration policies like this question, but policies that were directly targeted at the development process, such as bad source control polic...
Hi, I would be glad if you could share your career development experience. Currently I'm working as a software engineer and I am looking the way to advance to higher position. I would appreciate any advice regarding the knowledge, formal education or any other useful tip which could help at career building toward project manager and h...
Is there any Free or cheap software for freelancers, or solo developers, that can help you stay organized and on track? Give you an estimate of task vs Time. Here you are in your project and what left. As simple, productive and efficient as possible. Not web Based. And that those not get in your way. Thanks ...
This is going to be the noobist of all noob questions, but what exactly is scope creep, what does it entail? ...
My company does not follow any well defined process for software development. I want to implement a simple but effective process which will suit my company. We have all sets of resources right from project managers to developers and testers. Please provide some references or process templates that I can use. ...
I am looking for a good site to throw up my pet projects. Its nothing I want published to the world at large (if at all possible), its just for stuff that I want to play around with. The big thing is that I am going to need the ability to delete projects when I am done with them, something that wouldn't be supported if I checked multipl...
Three years ago I transitioned to a software project manager, after being a software developer for 8 years. Although my projects have been delivered on-time and on-budget, being a PM is really not what gets me out of bed in the morning. Is there any advice that you could share to make the transition back to a developer. I tried speaki...
Given that working features are better value for a company than good code at any given point in time and that bad code makes adding more features difficult: How do you stop the code from deteriorating over time? At any point, getting a feature to work is higher priority than getting it to work with well engineered code which takes lon...
I'd like to know whose responsibility in the team it is to take the spec (produced by the business analysts) and itemize it (tickets and sub-tasks) in the issue management system (e.g. JIRA) (for the perusal of the developers). I have a feeling it depends on your project management method of choice (e.g. PRINCE2) and/or team size, but p...
While project managers may each have their own personality and management style, it seems that many of them have a pernicious love of sneaking in "scope creep" when they can (whether anyone is watching or not). While they usually mean well (bless their hearts), what's the best way that you've found to say "NO" to project managers? ...
The team I am working in has embraced scrum in a big way. I really like the idea of it, but find that we are constantly having to make compromises to fit with our development reality. This is making scrum less effective and causing other overheads. What I am asking is have people out there managed to work with pure scrum and does it pay...
Clearly, software projects are different from other industries in terms of many things like for instance, quality assurance, project progress measurement, and many other things. Unique characteristics of software projects also makes the risk management process unique. Lots of issues in a project might lead it to unacceptable delay or f...
I've resubmitted this quesiton - without the link to the slideshare page - since the original got closed. My apologies if it looked like spam or marketing. The question is genuine - apart from the yahoo groups I belong to I don't know where programmers hang out these days. Background: I've just published a free book online about the ...
I'm looking for a good project management tool for 2 developers. I prefer online services such as basecamp but others are welcome as well. Some tools are heavily designed for large teams so looking for project managements tools which is suitable for really small teams like 2 to 4 developer. It can Open Source or Commercial. ...
Let's say you work 100 days on a project. How many days would each phase of your process (requirements analysis, specification, etc.) take? I'm interested also in the ratio of specific activities in every phase, such as writing tests, back-end coding, front-end coding, visual design, database design etc. Many thanks! EDIT: Just to ma...
I started using FogBugz as my project management tool. So I keep adding bugs and new features to it. The problem is FogBugz doesn't support subtasks for features, therefore I'm ending up adding all steps of implementing a feature as a text into the description box. But so far this is quite inefficient in many ways. It's not clear "what ...
Steve Yegge's wisdom notwithstanding, most developers are faced with requirements which were gathered from non-technical customers. Sometimes there are project managers who deal with the customers and translate their requirements, other times not. In any event, the fact that the requirements will change is an inevitability. Most of wh...