My company has been using JIRA as a requirements tracking tool as well as a bug tracker, and it's been working pretty well while we've been working on one project at a time. We now have a scenario where we have three different project proposals whose requirements partially overlap (e.g. requirement 1 applies to projects A and B, require...
I was organizing the team to do parallel development of next version of the product. I grouped the team by Client specific Feature specific Handling the cross-functional issues by assigning that task to specific individual. Would like to know what other ways project managers/ leads group teams? ...
How do you manage a massive (60+ pages) design (HTML/CSS) Project? Like what is your workflow? How do you set milestones? ...
I have roughly 8 years experience working as a software developer on many technologies. I know my stuff, but I really want to become a technical manager so I can have more control and responsibility on a project. I also know a fair bit about architecture, estimation, how to manage people, interact with clients, write specifications and...
If you ever managed a software development effort or parts of it in any capacity when what bits did you find difficult or frustrating? What did happen at the end? UPDATE: It would be nice to hear some actual stories as opposed to "geeks are difficult people". Thanks! ...
I'm working on a Silverlight page which has several modules for querying and plotting data from a Database. Each of these modules is quite different and will each need their own control panels and data displayed in different formats, they will basically be unrelated, but we want them accessible from the same page. My question is, how sh...
What tools and procedures would you recommend or use yourself to help streamline the following sceanario: (I know its a long one but any help is appreciated) I work in a team that have an ecommerce app that we develop at our company. Its a reasonably standard LAMP application that we have been developing on and off for about 3 years. We...
I'm building a web application to generate monthly subscription fees, but I've quickly realised I'm going to need some help with the project to finish it this century. I don't have any money upfront for a freelancer and every website I've found takes bids for project work. The tasks that need doing are flexible too because I can do what...
Hey Guys, I'm relatively new to the Web Development business. Me and 2 friends started up our own little company. 1 person is a designer, 1 person is sales / consultant, and I am the developer. Right now, its an after work project, but we hope to expand and let it become our full time jobs. Anyway, my question to you, is what is the b...
I would like to say upfront that i am not a programmer. I'm 1 of 3 partners in a small start up. Two of us have a business and sales background, whilst the third guy is a very experienced Java Programmer/engineer (and a good friend). As with most start ups we believe we'll be the next big website. We have found a opportunity that the "...
Everybody is talking about it and a talk on a conference yesterday really sparked my interest in actually moving stuff in our business to the cloud but I'm still barely scratching the surface of what is possible. My idea is creating an integrated project management tool that hooks up with our dev servers (Mosso/rackspace?), documents (G...
Hi, I am required to generate a Microsoft project file with some data MYSQL database. Since the application I am writing is a PHP application, is there a way to create a Microsoft project file like we do data export to excel file using some libraries. Any help would be highly appreciated. ...
Hello, Is it possible to create a project based on a remote directory (on an ftp server) in VIM, using the Project plugin? ...
My next project will be a lightweight PHP alternative to Trac, since Trac is often confusing to install and is often a little too big or feature-rich for smaller project. Features planned so far: Wiki Bug tracker Forum(s) Static pages (easily edited of course) Markdown support No code repo hosting (I consider this a feature since most...
Hi all I'm looking for a project management tool which supports the following features: standard resource administration across multiple projects user-defined project properties fields, which can be used to filter projects. project data stored in a database, such that externally generated data pertaining to projects can be directl...
Are there any open source alternatives to the not very active and drupal-bundled Ideatorrent project? ...
Note : Before asking this question I did an exhaustive search, and found little bits of the answer in various other questions, for example: What is the best resource for learning Scrum? Scrum Process Management - tips, pitfalls, ideas Two questions regarding Scrum However, I feel like this question hasn't been directly addressed (i...
Ok here's the story: I manage a team of 3 developers that have been working on, and recently completed, a 1 1/2 year project for one of our largest clients. The project is a web application written in .NET 3.5 MVC 1.0 SQL 2005. Their requirements for the program were such that we had to build 10 robust completely ajax controls; one of ...
If your application has a public API that people develop against then what do you do in following scenarios? If you publish service pack of your application do you change the version number of assemblies? Similarly do you change the version number if you provide a hot fix? If you do, do you provide policy files for assembly redirecti...
I call this a flash meeting, but maybe there is another more appropriate name. Once in a while (and sometimes more often) one of my developers comes to my desk and asks how he should code a particular piece of code. The code itself is not directly answering a feature, meaning that it hasn't been designed during requirements, but it is ...