I'm trying to find an online collaboration service such as http://www.comindwork.com/ which contains features for a multilingual wiki. CoMindwork has a wiki, but its not multilingual. There is the possiblity of hosting our own (Win2003, .NET), but I'd rather have a bunch of project management tools available from the one service Any su...
Hello everyone, Can someone guide me towards some good opensource project management tools? I need it for managing projects for a development team. All developers are c# developers. What would be the best one to go for? We're not familiar with php or any other language so we prefer something in .Net or some software that's more easy t...
what is the purpose of automation testing? According to me the main purpose is Fast Removes repetitive manual work My main query comes here. If after automation if it only reduces repetitive manual work but it is taking almost the same time as it was taking before then is automation feasible in this case. As to make the testing aut...
I really just want to use Netbeans as an editor, and I want to be able to open a group of files with it. I don't really want any of the php/java/c++ functionality. (as I'm not really using that). Is there any sort of a "general" or "generic" type of project in Netbeans? ...
Hi, I am a software developer, place where i work , am soon going to be in a role where I would be required to manage multiple projects, not necessarily in my sweet spot of tech area...Are there any tips/traps or suggestions that I should be keeping while handling them... Cheers ...
My team (4 people) have just reached a major milestone in our development, putting us at about 2/3 finished, but I guess the stress has caught up to everyone and all the gears have ground to a near halt, progess is being made at 1/5 of the original speed. I wanted to ask the SO community how to best deal with this, I've identified the f...
What are useful strategies to adopt when you or the project does not have a clear idea of what the final (if any) product is going to be? Let us take "research" to mean an exploration into an area where many things are not known or implemented and where a formal set of deliverables cannot be specified at the start of the project. This i...
Being a part of a small development team that is geographically dislocated, I keep running into constant problems with keeping the projects on track and the team productive. Aside from project collaboration software and regular communication, there seems to be little to do to improve team synergy. I would really appreciate any tips, tr...
We have a small company team and even smaller Development team. The current process is that each Sales Rep (SR) is the actual Project Manager of each web application sold. Developers obtain requirements, functionality and design from the SR directly. Giving the actual head of developers to visibility over the actual work load on the d...
As we are a small company, I work as both a project manager and developer. The specifications I create for clients contain a number of elements used to describe and define the project, including user stories alongside any other elements I feel need to be included to define the project (e.g. wireframes, userflows, sitemaps etc.) to the c...
The question is quite generic. What are the points that should be kept in mind to identify a valid use case? How to approach a use case? ...
We're looking to start using a project management tool at work. I've used Unfuddle (and trac through assembla) on personal projects. I'd use either of these but the business won't be too happy with anything that's hosted externally. I would just go with trac but there may be some hoops to jump through to get Python installed. Ideally, ...
Right now, I'm extremely frustrated because I was in the process of developing some cool mechanism to optimize a calculation system by reducing the number of calculations from around half a million to just a few thousands. It took a lot of time examining and analyzing data, writing things down, doing a few tests and in general just doing...
I'm time+cost estimating a semi-complex software solution, that hasn't got specific requirements in about 75% of features. I would still like to make as good estimate as possible, by getting additional data from the client. There will still be parts that may end up not being able to develop, since there's too many dependencies with other...
I posted this question on Reddit Programming and did not get a single response. So I am hoping that Stack Overflow community will have an opinion. Have any of you ever been on a software project that had fallen behind, where 'Crashing' or 'Fast-Tracking' the project schedule actually brought the project schedule back on track? I have n...
Hi, We have a project hand over from on shore team to our team (off shore) not long ago. However we were having difficulties for the hand-over process. We couldn't think of any questions to ask during their design walk-through, because we were overwhelmed by the sheer amount of information. We wanted to ask, but we didn't know what to...
Web development is a mess. This is because we have to interact with a lot of people. Businness, Designers, Developpers, Leads, etc... A website is a mixture of a lot of skills which involves programmers, designers, seo experts, business persons, ergonomists, etc... So, the question is, how do you work to make all those people understan...
I like maven. I even like it very very much. Since I switched to it from Ant I have saved lots of hours of works, building build files, administrating dependencies, etc, and saved lots of space in my source control repository. The problem is that maven files are too verbose. Not that Ant files where less verbose, but their verbosity was...
For projects that should take between two and six weeks, is Scrum the right way? Having read up on Scrum a bit, I was left with the impression Scrum is an excellent choice for mid to large sized projects. ...
We programmers generally need to work for long continuous hours, which turns our brain battery down. What things you do to keep your brain fresh and concentrated? ...