I have just moved to a company where the production team is 15 strong, and consists of a mixture of back end and front end developers, testers & creatives. The team are working on multiple projects at the same time. Its agency work, so projects are fairly small, a CMS corporate website, a basic e-commerce site, that sort of thing. At th...
Hi, I have a tight timeline to deliver a new portal application that initially will host a new product, but overtime will be the place that we migrate all of our existing portals into (a single look and feel and eventually single data warehouse). The major steps that I see for the initial phase are: - Design UI - ********...
Hi there. I'm looking for something, like MICROSOFT PROJECT, for tracking projects comprised of complex series of events, most of which occur within a single day. I was thinking "project management software" because I still need to track dependencies, predecessors, etc. All of the apps I've tried recently have no capacity for dealing...
Hi, I received an exercise: control a chess game. No AI, just a human-vs-human chess game. This is the first full-blown project I'm developing. I have 3 weeks, during which I have about 2-4 hours every day. I'm developing alone. How do you suggest I manage the time and the flow of development? Thanks, Nur ...
Leaving work at my contractual end of play time seems to be a rare event. Usually work has to be done that requires working an hour over the end of the day, or a meeting (time differences are a real pain). Is there anything I can do to avoid this? I already make sure I don't start a task in for the end of the day (or the end of the next...
I'm wondering when to divide code, and components of a project into a separate project. I'm creating a MVC .NET Web project, and there are many directories/sub-directories, and I haven't even started getting into some of the background processes that will take even more space. I'm just trying to work on organizing projects and the code...
One of the challenges with Scrum is how to fit QA into the process. Sure, QA works with the developers on each individual user story during the Sprint, but what about giving QA time with the fully completed sprint to do a full regression and load test before releasing into production? I've seen 2 approaches: launch into production on ...
I am building a customer sales and invoicing app for a company.The app is in PHP MYSQL, but I guess that shouldn't matter much. The app structure is as follows: website files: .php, ,.htm, images and css database: containing 20+ tables The app is currently being used by the company and 2 other sister concerns(beta testing mostly). Si...
I have a task Z that can only be completed once either task X or task Y is completed. Also: % The length of task Z depends on which of X or Y is completed: % If task X is completed, task Z takes 4 hours % If task Y is completed, task Z takes 7 hours % Task X takes 5 hours to complete % Task Y takes 3 hours to complete % Task...
Hi, Currently I am studying in university. As normal part of my course requires me to form a project team. Any advice on how to look for good team members? I would like to be a team leader. What's the definition of a "good" team member? Thanks. ...
I am trying to devise an ideal work flow which involves client, PM , Configuration manager, team leader, developer , tester and finally the repository itself. Who would control what,how will the information flow and what role should the PM have when a change is requested. ...
Suppose you are project manager of large project with a lot of code which was developed for long time. For some parts of code team have knowledge, for others - not. It is good to distribute responsibility between team mates in some wise way. There are no problems with the code the author of which is still in the team. But the approach ...
How to conclude whether Scrum model fits for a company or not? How long will it take to see the effect for a company of size 100 (employees)? Will it effect in company's profit directly? How to calculate profit or loss of a company after agile implementation? ...
Are there good videos / presentations / papers / books that detail or demonstrate the idea of "the agile workflow for the manager / facilitator" who needs to be in ongoing contact with the client, the design team and oversee the implementation? Not just the single project workflow, but a workflow that involves multiple, possibly simulta...
We are thinking of moving from Scrum to a more Kanban style of development, however one thing that is not clear to me is how to monitor progress under Kanban. I have read that progress can be measured by monitoring the cycle time of each story and then presumeably applying this time to the number of outstanding stories. But this seems t...
Please tell me what kind of programs you use insted of JIRA/confluence. I don't like jira because the design is so Java style. For example I like the PivotalTracker for tracking fresh projects. What do you suggest? THX! ...
Hi all, I want to introduce Jira and Perforce for my personal projects at home. The question I have is about infrastructure. How do you setup your personal production environment? Do you have an own server at home that hosts source control and project management, do you use a rented server or does this all run on your (main) development...
Is it possible to do something like using the trac module in Python in order to get a listing of all of the projects in a given directory? If possible it would be nice to get things like the description, too. I can't seem to figure out how to do it. Thanks for any help you can provide. ...
I did some searching on google and stackoverflow, and was dissatisfied with the results. What I want is an app that is: easy to install and configure easy to use multilingual preferably lightweight preferably low-cost or open-source and integrates: List item hierarchical content management (with different views for different peopl...
After reading this very informative (albeit somewhat argumentative) question I would like to know your experience with programming large projects with Python. Do things become un manageable as the project becomes larger? This concern is one thing that keeps me attached to Java. I would therefore be particularly interested in informed ...