I have been pondering about this for some time. How do you pick a technology ( am not talking about Java vs .Net vs PHP) when you are planning for a new project /maintaining an existing project in an organization. Arguments for picking the latest technology It might overcome some of the limitations of the existing technology ( Think...
Is there any free, Project Managment CMS that can interact with SVN and has nice GUI (not Trac)? ...
I would like to learn what kind of real time activity/problem tracking methods people use. Let me clarify what I mean: When programming, I usually take a note for the current problem that I try to solve. I write down a sentence to name the problem. During research or debugging, I come across several alternative solution ideas that might...
Hi, Lets take a website project with a number of team members and it has a number of features. During the development, Is it better for same guy to do one complete feature(DB,Application Logic,Frontend(Javascript,HTML,CSS etc)) or Is it better for the different guy to do the Application Logic and Frontend. In most of the cases, DB is ...
Possible Duplicate: What can I do to get better at estimating how long projects are going to take? Closed for duplication. For googlers and such, some of the dupes that contained good information: How to estimate the length of a programming task One of Joel's posts keeps coming up How possible is it to estimate time for prog...
Iam looking for good free resources about planning of Software projects (web development/database) and writing good "simple" concepts for small/medium sized applications. If someone knows good blogs, sites post it please. ...
I have several projects that build reusable libraries. All these projects are under source control. When I use these libraries in a project I simply link to the same ONE version on my local drive. However as you can imagine, this can cause problems when I commit back, and a different developer tries to clone the repository. What is the...
I was at a meeting recently for our startup. For half an hour, I was listening to one of the key people on the team talk about timelines, the market, confidentiality, being there first and so on. But I couldn't help ask myself the question: all that talk about confidentiality is nice, but there isn't much talk about physical security. Th...
Hello! Do you know of any extension (desired free) for VS (or VCPP) 10 that adds C projects productivity (i.e. templates, headers control, syntax highlighting etc.)? Thanks ...
When using Greenhopper with Jira, it is clear that Greenhopper is using the "fixed in version" field in the Jira issues to represent which scrum sprint the issue is being worked on. This in itself is a bit hackish, because an issue can conceivably be worked on in multiple sprints, and because the relationship between an issue and a sprin...
I have worked on a few multi-cultural projects (programming languages are universal, social norms and mores are not) and it's always interesting to see how the team dynamic works cross culturally. I'm not talking about coding differences, I'm talking about basic ground rules for communicating cross culturally at the start of the project...
So it would have something like: Social player (calculated: 16 hours) create mockup (est: 4 hours) implementation (calculated: 12 hours) fix orbited on IE and firefox (est: 6 hours) non-owner interface (est: 3 hours) owner interface (est: 3 hours) Calculated means that it's the total of all the estimates at lower levels. Ideally...
What are common practices for designing a build system/project structure that allows targeting multiple .NET versions with different feature sets? Specifically: Should you branch in source control? Should you use conditional compilation? Should you derive interfaces, thereby versioning them? Should you create seperate "versionX" proje...
What is the preferred free open source project management and SCM tool combination for working on multiple java based projects? This must be something that has been answered on here before but i couldnt find a good one. Im working with a couple people on two different proof-of-concept web app projects and have been doing everything tog...
I have been using Issue Tracking system for a week . Right now , I do not really know How to categorize my tickets.I mostly use "enhancement" and "bug" tags .However I want to be more specific about tags.On google's project hosting page I saw tags like "UI" etc,but generally my tickets include lots of part of my application, so I can not...
would like to explore what are the general practices in dropping features make a decision to delay the project schedule design the features in a way that can be dropped with lesser pain delay a project schedule with good estimation without re-delay again preparation for project completion to avoid delay in schedule Please note that ...
As a software developer for 6 years, I've had a range of experiences with different teams, from negative to positive. One of the best experiences I had was in a certain project team at a financial organization. There were a number of factors that made the project successful, but I think the team structure was a key aspect of it. To su...
..and I have quite specific needs. I have some simple user stories: Users Ben is a manager working in the Shared Tech Group (STG). The group is made up of 15 software engineers. Ben is interested in allowing his team to work on the things that matter while providing insight into what the team is doing. Seb is a dev in the Shared T...
Perhaps I'm missing this functionality out of the box, but I can't seem to find it. So I'm looking for a JIRA plugin that would allow for adding notes attached directly to the project summary page. This would be for keeping track of odds and ends about a project that are important to document, but don't fit as bugs, code comments, spec ...
Hello, I'm a member of a software development team working on a small project (we think that we can release a beta quality product after 2 or 3 month continuos work). since this is our first teamwork, I decided to ask you to suggest me a good development methodology. so Which software development methodology would you suggest for a sma...