I lead a team of six programmers, and we are presently implementing a number of agile development practices. I'm very interested in Scrum, however it seems to assume that your project will have multiple developers. Most of my projects are smaller, and involve a single developer. We run 3 or 4 such projects in parrallel at any time. From...
I lead a small team of six developers, and we are currently implenting a number of agile practices. Most of our work is single-programmer projects, as well as small (2-3 day) maintenance tasks on existing systems. I was interested in the application of Scrum in our situation, but someone recommended Kanban as possibly being a more suita...
Hi everyone, I am using CMake to manage a build of a collection of projects on Linux, not a single project but the principle is the same. Each project has its own collection of options, for example DEVEL switches and custom code to be included. These are added in the standard CMake way: OPTION(NAME "Helpstring" VALUE) I am looking fo...
Hi, I am searching for a good online project managment software. There are plenty of them though. So, the best way would be to get some recommendations. :-) Lately I've found Zoho Projects.. does anyone use it? Thanks for answers. Andy ...
Hi, We are creating a php script project; which we will be selling to customers. The customers can host the script on their web server. We would like to develop an update or upgrade process for this script. Means if a customer is using the version 1.2 of the script and we have released the new version 1.3 of the script, the users w...
I have always used Visual Studios built in GUI support for configuring my projects, often using property sheets so that several projects will use a common set. One of my main gripes with this is managing multiple projects, configurations and platforms. If you just do everything with the main GUI (right click the project -> properties) i...
Hi everyone, Is it possible to backup an entire eclipse PDT project (or parts of it), so that it can be restored to that state later? Ideally this would only save changes from the last backup to save space. If it makes any difference I have Mylyn installed (Maybe you could backup the current task context?) and am using CodeIgniter. Th...
Hi I have a project directory like /projects/myProject/src/... and my git repository is on /projects/myProject/src directory. But I want to change my main git directory to /projects/myProject(which is the parent of current git directory.) I could just create a new repo on /projects/myProject, but I could lose all of my previous commits. ...
Hi everyone, I have recently added the reCaptcha library for CodeIgniter (by copying files from the extracted zip into the application folder). Although the files exist in windows explorer and in the open file dialogue in eclipse, they are not added to the eclipse project view; although the project view's root directory is the applicat...
Hello SO; I shall start with some background on myself. I am a junior programmer (almost entirely .Net, unsurprisingly) and have been in my first graduate job for just over a year; before that I took a physics degree and learned programming on the side, first Fortran and then C# off my own bat for a project. After this relatively short...
I'm developing a project management application in Django that requires a somewhat linear response process involving different groups of users (as in Django auth Groups). Each step in the response process has several response options (most options unique to the step) and is assigned to a user within a particular group. The next step in...
Does anyone know of the practical reasons for the com.company.project package structure and why it has become the de-facto standard? Does anyone actually store everything in a folder-structure that directly reflects this package structure? (this is coming from an Actionscript perspective, btw) ...
I'm in this situation with a project: I need to implement a certain piece of functionality, which the code does I am working on not fulfill reliably. That is fine, but the implementation throws up exceptions about files in use (there is an instance class which reads and writes to a config file, and part of the problem is so many method...
There are lots of texts on how to plan software projects (with user stories, etc), but they usually assume you have a large budget, liberal timeframes and/or a real dev team available. While they sound fantastic, they never seem to account for solo devs working on a short deadline. There is also a lot of talk about test-based methodolog...
It's just a question, because I've looked through an old Software Engineering textbook and one of the things it talks about is measuring effort. But, what I am unclear on is what exactly is "effort" and how does that relate to time it takes to complete a project? I have no experience in dealing with effort estimation because this wasn't...
Hi guys I am in a bad need for a project management tool structured the following way. A customer (company) has: - Projects A project has - Tasks and milestones. It has to be able to integrate with outlook, so when I email a customer I can see the correspondance in the project management tool. Does anybody know of a cheap so...
I seem to have a problem, I have a growing business to run but I end up spending a lot of time doing the programming myself and sharing some load with the one programmer I have under me. I had a team of 3 but 2 left cos I obviously was not very good at planning/delegating tasks and was more a hands-on kind of programmer. I preferred to h...
What's the best free online project management software? I need it for my small team... ...
Is there a career path for moving from a 'Technical Lead' position to a more management-focussed role, such as that of a project manager? Are there any skill-sets common to both that can be leveraged? Is a developer with experience as a technical lead any closer to becoming a project manager than a developer without that experience? ...
I'm currently looking at structuring my teams projects into a consistent manner that properly utilises packages and is easily version-controlled (via SVN). I'm interested in any 'best practise' with regards to project structuring and how to use consistent packaging without lumping everything into a gigantic com.domainname.projects folde...