Hi, We are a two people team of software developers and have just started working on a new project. We have a myriad of very small non-critical tasks and some bigger tasks which are usually time-critical to manage. I am looking for a tool that would allow us to Add, keep track of and prioritize tasks Manage dependencies between tasks ...
I recently started using Lighthouse to manage a couple of development projects and would like to know what some of the seasoned users consider to be their best practices for maximizing this applications usefulness. Perhaps there are certain tags that make it simpler to track aspects of projects, or more advanced ways to setup milestones...
I am a senior software engineer, and a few months ago I have been asked to help with co-ordination of bug corrections. The project manager (non technical) has given me an objective of improving productivity to 1 bug correction per man/day. This has been a real challenge, and I would like to know what other developers/managers may have do...
Running a business / being self-employed we all have to deal occassionally with clients who become unresponsive. E.g. you send them a UI mockup asking for feedback and all you get back is silence. You ask about some details about the feature in their application that you're working on and you don't hear from them for a month. I try to n...
I have many projects that are named after namespaces types are under When adding a new sub-namespace, how do you decide whether to • create a new folder in a project -- or -- • create a new project in a solution? What are some of dis/advantages I should consider for each scenario? ...
Hi everybody. (I ask this here, waiting for the IT Admin StackOverflow to become reality!) The IT Operations Dept of our company (media, about 4000 employees), is searching for a scheduling/planning tool. Our requirements are: It should be Open Source software (highly preferred) It will be used by about 100 concurrent users, and the...
Have to remove the logs and schema.rb from the svn as that is machine dependent.My schema is not migrating after the update as the schema revision on different machine is of different order. ...
Alexander Stigsen, author of E Text Editor is starting an ambitious project - called Open Company - in an attempt to combine the culture of open source software, with the remuneration of commercial. Read the blog post announcing Open Company. Like I say, it's ambitious, but laudable, I am sure you'll agree. My question to the communi...
I'm trying to transition into some programming consulting work. A friend of my former employer is interested in having me "develop a spec," which I take to mean come up with some technology requirements and time estimates (e.g. milestones). Do developers normally charge for this? I'm imagining it's basically the same kind of workload th...
Does anyone know of a solid free and/or open source business rule management system. The organization I work for is developing increasingly more complex (business-wise) applications and it would be really nice to have a rule based system for saving, maintaining and allowing inter-relation of those business rules over time. Edit: Additio...
Hi Guys, I am currently working on company which has several products with the same release cycle. The problem that i got is i will need to create release file which include all files released and what the change for. And there are number of occasions where clients pullback from the change close to the release date. The difficulty ...
Ok, when hired on to my current company a year ago, I was tasked with migrating our development teams from VSS. They already had it in their minds that they wanted Subversion, and since I had experience using and setting up subversion, I was a good candidate. I first tried to sell TFS because it woul dhave solved the problem I am in ri...
Hello, I am trying to implement Trac+SVN. But am encountering a project management issue. To give you a background, most of my projects are related to web development (they go thru phases like design, programming, testing etc.). Now I am implementing Trac for my projects. Now the problem is what should I place as milestones and tickets...
So I recently finish my 3rd year software engineering project. The project was a game. It was not easy in the least. The most challenging project I have done. After some reflection I noticed that the major problem our group had was: Our SRS rarely matched our Design Diagrams Our architecture was not well defined And Lastly our c...
I am working in a small team on some projects in my spare time. We are having the problem that we seem to go in circles and are not able to get our products developed - however this is not a problem during my day job. The lack of face-to-face communication seems to have a real impact on productivity. Any examples of software or methodol...
I have problems developing my personal projects because I don't have deadlines, so I rarely find time to pursue them and when I finally find some time I usually find myself "perfecting" the code instead of adding more meat. In contrast, my for-pay projects are less than perfect but work to the customer's satisfaction, earn my pay and ar...
We are trying to run SCRUM for a small development team (three and a half developers) working on an on-line application and we are having trouble getting time from non-development resource e.g. product owner, user testing, etc. I'm working on a business case for getting more non-development resource and for it to be more responsive to o...
Do you think that project manager should have programming background? Do you consider this role as a natural way of evolution for the skilled/leader programmers (as an alternative for architect role)? Or maybe you believe that PM should be just a good manager with a basic understanding of the programming concepts and a fundamental knowle...
I'm looking for quick and simple alternatives to Microsoft Project. I need to articulate what a small team of developers and testers are doing over the coming months, describe the order that they're doing those things, and work out whether the amount of stuff we need to do is likely to fit in to the timescales we've been given. I know...
OK... Im coming to grips with the fact that MS Project 2007 may not be the correct tool for my production scheduling. We serve 120 to 150 projects a year with durations from 6 weeks to 12 months. The task are simple (6 to 8 per project) and the resource pool is stable (15 to 20 people). It's really an assembly line product but with ...