project-management

Microsoft Project Link a task inbetween another task

I am using MS project 2007. I know I can split a task to delay it when interuptions happen. But what if a task is intentionally delayed by another task during certain periods of the week before returning back to the main task. In other words task 1 ------------ ----------------------- task 2 --------- I could just...

What bug tracking software should I choose - fogbugz, assembla or bontq?

I wanted to ask the experts what will be the best choice of bug tracking saas for our company. We need a very user-friendly bug tracking service that will contain basic project management functionality. The company that I work in develops and designs websites, and in most cases our issues need to be shown visually. Please help. [Upda...

Could you pls comment before we start our mobile+server project?

Hello All, We are a team of four CS undergrad seniors developing a mobile app (+ the web-based servicing architecture ofcourse) with the following intentions: (1) Its our Degree Project (Thus comes, UML Modeling, Documented Testing & other specification reports) (2) Our chance to learn & solve issues ranging from UI, data mining, AI, TO ...

How the Work Breakdown Structure could be used to develop an Organizational Structure

How the Work Breakdown Structure could be used to develop an Organizational Structure? ...

Preventing Projects from ever coming back with errors

I work for a web development company, and quite often, some of our projects come back from the client after being released, with small bugs. This frustrates my boss as it means we must carry out development work to fix the issue, for which we are not getting paid for. How can we prevent errors from ever occuring, or is this just someth...

Database User Interface Design Process

I am a "one man shop" and am expected to develop databases and interfaces to those databases. Developing online front-ends using web frameworks is time-consuming, and it adds opportunities for error in my code due to the sheer number of layers I am dealing with (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python (Mako + SQLAlchemy) , Postgres). Do other peop...

Software Development Team HUD

I read an article a while back about a development company that had a dedicated Monitor to display a web app that charted completed task by team member, kind of like a sales chart for software development. I'm thinking of implementing something like this but I can't for the life of me find that article or that tool. I think it was a ruby...

What project management tool to use for a geographically distributed team?

Currently we are using Trac. Tickets are good for tracking tasks and related discussions. However, I think it has the following disadvantages or limitations Tickets creation is too complex for team members with non-tech background. Every little modification of a ticket generates a mail to everyone in the cc list, which is rather anno...

Repositories Management options

I am looking for THE BEST solution for the organization. What are every ones thoughts about Repositories Management -Some Extreme and in-between options are: Repository Per Project One Repository Organization wide Repository by target verticals - web & mobile Repository by size of initiative - web, desktop, shared, customApp, etc.... ...

Project management with Git integration

I've looked around for a project management system, I've tried to use this one but it lacks some features I want and doesn't really seem to be under any sort of active development. I only need a few features: Basic project/task management Very good git integration (when I pull/push my repo I want the management files to go too) Vim in...

What is the best way to break down and follow project progress?

Hi When i wanna start a new project, I have enough details to just start it. And as all programmer needs, I need to analyse that project to understand how to write codes and classes and relations between them... Normally, I do it on so many papers and its really annoying and also I can't consentrate so good (in huge projects). I wanna kn...

Microsoft Project Server - Must Haves

Question: What should I look for in a candidate for a position of EPM Consultant? Wiki says: Enterprise Project Management (EPM), in broad terms, is the field of organizational development that supports organizations in managing integrally and adapting themselves to the changes of a transformation. I know that it stands for ePM is...

any agile free cross-platform project management/ALM tools with mylyn integration out there?

Is there a solution I have missed? I would prefer a open source tool, not just a 1-5-developer free plan (so not BaseCamp, Mingle, Jira/Greenhopper). And it has to run on both windows and linux (so no ScrumDesk or TargetProcess). It has to support agile development process - user stories, iterations, point estimates, tasks etc. What i r...

Project management with Visual Studio, without TFS?

Can I have some basic project management in Visual Studion without TFS or is TFS what I need? Basically I like to get a list with my projects, last edited dates, and if possible project tags (customer for example), and when selecting one VS should load it. From the right repository (Mercurial/Git/Svn). I can move my project to some repo...

What is the best time tracking software and why?

Hi, I'm working in a company where we have to report our time daily. We have to said what type of task we were doing during the day. Do you know some software which could help us to make such daily summary for me? Maybe there is automatic tool which can monitor the time which I'm spending in each application? i mean something like res...

Leading an offshore team

I'm in a position where I am leading two teams of 4. Both teams are located in India. I am on the west coast of the U.S. I'm finding leading remote teams challenging: First, their command of the English language is weak. Second, I'm having difficultly understanding them through their accents. Third is timing, we are 12 hours apart. ...

Best ivy practice: Split code into multiple projects or use one project with multiple configurations?

At work we have a number of projects which need to share some common code. Some code is completely universal while some of the code is only shared by a subset of our projects. Should I split up the common code into two separate projects or use two different ivy configurations for a single project? Option 1 - Two separate projects. P...

Super simple to use (hand holding) project management software?

Currently 2 person programming team, with a project manager whom doesn't have any experience in Project management. So really need something very simple, that will hold the hand of a project manager. Far more important than features is ease of use. I could deal with a gloried ToDo list - but I would like milestones. Thanks ...

How to handle pressure to deliver, when maintaining legacy code?

Here's a question that has been bugging me. I'd like to think that I prefer writing elegant C++ code. — You know, well designed, clean, documented code. But, what do you do if you are under pressure to deliver and maintain large legacy code which is supposed to meet functional and, especially, performance requirements? After a while, my...

I'm looking for a nice local ticketing system

I'm looking for a nice software to store tickets information locally. It should work only on my laptop under Linux, and be easily installed. The core features that I need: storing tickets allows to create additional documentation don't take too much ram very easy installation (I don't have whole days for configuring) multiproject ...