Hi, We're a team of 2 persons (a programmer and a designer) working on a rather big project, actually several projects of varying complexity. I'd like to know if there are any particulary good project management tools to help us in our task. The requirements would be : Easy to use. We don't want spending too much time learning how it ...
I know this may not be exactly a coder question, but I feel it is still related to programming because I'm sure many developers have come across this before and might have some insight on how to resolve this or have advice. There is an actually programming question though. My issue as a developer. I work in a small company, roughly 15 ...
This is going to make me sound lazy (and maybe I am), but I don't want to have to set up anything myself. I'm looking for a good, free online project management/hosting solution for my personal projects. Something like Unfuddle is exactly what I'm looking for: Free Provides issue/bug tracking Provides hosting of source control reposit...
Hi, We're in a fast paced industry (communications) and we build websites and mobile app among the other departments of the company (print, ads, advertising, etc). We are the only "non-creative" department and our methodologies often clashes with the other departments. They usually go see people directly without any sort of methodologi...
Hi, I'm making a DLL (and probably a Linux port at some later date) in C++ using eclipse. The situation is as follows: I am trying to make two separate build configurations, one that will build a DLL and one that will build an executable CppUnit test. Currently I have all of the DLL build working, and I can make a separate project to te...
Many a time I get lost in the middle of a project, and the project gets delayed. I have four projects which are still not completed, and new projects are coming. How should I approach a new project? Are there any books or websites that help understand what I need to do first? Do we make a database or static design first, as the custome...
Hello, I am about to start a web project in PHP/MySql and would like to do proper planning but i have no experience in doing this, so i am looking for an online tutorial i can read that will help me learn how to plan web projects. Please post resourcesful links. Thanks. ...
Hi all, I am a single person with a pretty large client base. I am currently doing everything via email and basically losing my mind. I am curious if anyone out there who freelances AND maintains their client's sites/projects uses any sort of combo of tools or a single tool... Paid or free... to aid in keeping more hairs on their head...
Hi, I am Exporting data to ms-project xml file using the mspdi.xsd and I was able to successfully create the xml file and it is opening properly in the MS Project also. But I am not able to export the percentage work completed. Following is the generated xml and if we open teh file, we can see all the data except the percentage complete...
I recently started a career in software development after graduating a couple of years ago in CS. The current project I'm on is a large ongoing project that has it's origins in the 90s with a mix of C, C++, and Java. There are multiple platforms (UNIX, WIN, etc) being supported, older technologies in use like CVS, and some dated document...
Hello, a while ago I read an article on estimating software projects which had an example of a kind of a tongue - in - cheek approach to project estimation. It worked like this: Every team member, no matter how deeply involved in the planning phase could bet on a finishing date. There was an Excel file with a timeline on the top, and ...
I recently got promoted to be the Project Manager/Supervisor. What do you think the leadership style a managerial role in Programming Dev't should have? What's your style? ...
I recently started a job knowing that the company's practices needed help: no source control, no bug tracking, definitely no automated testing. They told me that their application code wasn’t good. What an understatement. Their code is an unholy mess of classic asp, non object oriented vb.net (hello recordsets!), embedded styles...
Recently I've been hired by a small startup. My managers are both new to software business and I was wondering if is there a good book to recommend them. The book must explain well how to manage various development methodologies (cascade, agile, scrum, etc..), version control, how to effectively track bugs and how to set up support and e...
I made a website almost 2 years ago that needs some serious T.L.C. I've been maintaining the site, doing bug fixes and the like but I only ever wrote 'ideas' and features for the site on scrap paper or in a text file somewhere on my computer. The site never had a 'structured' development plan as it was just something fun to do at the tim...
In my organization we have to handle multiple projects with different technologies,like flex, iphone, .net, php etc. The problem is I know only java. So if a developer says me that an issue will take 2 days to solve I really cant judge whether he is right or wrong. How to handle this situation? One more problem is that because I don't...
hello, I am a java developer with 2.5 years of exp.I also do some lead a small team in my organisation.Can you tell me if I study CFA(Chartered Financial Analyst) then will it help me in my career? i am open to go to finance field or stay in IT with finance domain thnx ...
preferably free demo :) In other words, I want to know who uses which project manager... ...
I have a medium size project split into 3 modules: Core, plugins (in short its an interpretation layer), and implementation. There are a few global dependencies, and module specific dependencies. There is a custom ant target for generating javadoc excluding the implementation (for obvious reasons). This is stored in an public online SVN ...
Hi guys, First of all, i know that there are no fixed rules about software version control but I have several questions. 1) How to upgrade versions correctly I have a small software that I started a while ago and since i started from scratch I started with version 0.1. As I added more functionality I have been upgrading the minor num...