I'm needing a term or established term to represent a phenomenon our company currently calls a 'Black Hole': a project that takes magnitudes longer than estimated, yet we're already sucked in and HAVE to see it through to completion. EDIT: Hoping that the best term will be voted up. ...
How to deal with a project manager that imposes really tight deadlines but with a day or so before the deadline brings in new features and spec changes to implement, with another tight deadline. The worst thing about this is that most of the new stuff leads to major rewriting of the existing code, as previously implemented business ru...
I'm curious as to what other people use for physical Kanban/Scrum boards in their companies. I appreciate that because of sensitive business information you may not be able to provide a photo of the board. I"m looking at to find out what does your board looks like, and how you organize user stories and tasks as they move through a typi...
when starting with a project and using source control i find it hard to separate the things people are working on so they don't either write duplicate code or think it should be named one thing and so on. this problem diminishes over time because the general foundation is in place and it's easier to separate the tasks so they don't overl...
Suppose you are a project manager. You can estimate an effort in days for specific task for specific developer. After performing estimation you obtain some min and max values. After this you delegate a task to developer. Actually you also set up deadline. Which estimation is better to use when set up deadline: min or max? As I see min ...
I suspect many developers are in the same boat I am. There are many itches in the world to scratch, some so terribly simple, they "could be done in a weekend". And yet they never are. We have jobs, families, other hobbies to juggle... It can be frustrating! I have a lengthy list of projects I would like to get to some day, annotated and...
I am currently developing a very large software project alone, due to financial constraints from the company. I work on the database, get requirements, deal with the business logic, user interface, ... Though I have some experience across the different layers, it is not easy. Is there any way I can manage myself and the project more ef...
It has come to the point where 4 out of 5 developers are full time dealing with maintenance or support issues. This is mainly due to the total lack of accountability (read:reviews etc) during the development process and having dozens of small in-house legacy applications everywhere which everyone is scared to replace. Management is hit...
I find that one of the most frustrating aspects to software development is finding a solution to a problem, forgetting it, then being faced with the same issue in the future only to forgot how you previously solved it. Or to write a useful bit of code, then on a later project not be able to find this code. My general question is this: H...
Here are some task details: The key functionality of service is Java socket-server (based on Red5. I know it might be overkill, but it makes me confident in future) on unix-platform (FreeBSD or Linux Debian, but I suppose, that the last one). Service deals with quite a lot of simple data. Service must have very strong and wise API. We ...
For an in house software project, what type of system I could use to centralize all the online team members discussion? For our software development effort, currently our questions and answers are all scattered over emails. Its hard to track ideas, questions, and answers etc. What do you guys use? How do you manage such a situation? ...
I realize that the question is likely o get a lot of "it depends", but I am curious anyway. When you hire somebody new (but experienced) to the team, and they don't have expertise in technology you are using, but know something similar, how much time do you budget for them to "get online." I am talking about something fairly substantia...
I have friends who have asked me to make websites and most are very small, usually I don't bother with a technical plan but one friend in particular clearly had goals larger than my own and the project is dragging on forever. If I had made a spec before the project I feel like this wouldn't have happened and our relationship would be as ...
Hi Everyone, I am doing a project in C and I have a problem with building it. It is: I have two separate sub systems[A and B] in my project that use the functionality of yet another sub system[C]. To do this, they #include the header files necessary. The obligation is that both the sub systems[A and B] have to be built separately, by w...
I am reading through "Mythical Man-Month" and near the end in the updates for the 20th anniversary edition it talks a bit about Boehm's model and the optimal time to delivery based upon the exected effort in man-months of a project. His statement, when discussing Boehm's model, is: His results solidly confirm The MM-M’s assertion ...
At the top of all the files in a project, it has that comment block with the programmer information and whatnot. How do you change that? I remember setting it once. Somewhere. ...
I am going to be starting a hobby project with a friend, but we'll need some (free) way to organize and store tasks, bugs, etc. What tool do you recommend to do this? can something stored through an SVN server work? (Offline would be best) ...
If you are given a large n-tier project (.NET) with 15,000 lines of code written in "Spanish" (variables, tables, classes names etc) that requires feature addition and bug fixing, what would be your strategy to work on it? Converting the whole project to English(Google Translation or other tools) names does not seem to be a good option...
Hi how to represent a graph with list data structure i have three class (Graph, Node, Edge) and would like to find the critical path in graph. how to calculate ES : Earliest Start EC : Earliest Complete LS : Latest Start LC : Latest Complete thanks ...
Our company is in dire need of a Web-based customer collaboration or CRM tool that allows us to manage our relationships with customers. Here are the specific requirements of the tool we're looking for: Customers should be able to message our company, and our company should be able to respond Customers should be sandboxed from eachothe...