I am looking for ways to measure and prove that our team is improving, but I can't just blankly state that, I need ways to prove it. For example we are using coldfusion 8 and sql server 2005, and I can easily prove that the number of error's each day, week is getting less and less. But what other figures, can i use to show what areas a...
Hi! I would love to build an osx application this summer but I don't want to make it all by myself as I want it to be really cool. Is there a way to find opensource projects (maybe a forum?) to find motivated programmers? I have a lot of ideas for osx apps and maybe also iphone apps. I have experience, if you're interested in joining ...
Hello, What lightweight wiki engine would you recommend for a project wiki? I need to manage project conventions, coding style, some tutorial like things for new developers, global practices for the team and so on. My basic requirements are: Markdown (we use it in all the projects) syntax highlighting (I have already read all the p...
I am just asking for an advice here.. What would to you if you come to work on Monday, after a very extensive Friday of working all day. And you found out that someone in the team, changed all the code during the weekend, and even changed UI stuff that was already approved. The project is a very very different project now. I am reall...
Hi, I'm looking into learning more about the Android framework and I would also like to understand what issues small development teams (< 10 people) for Android based phones are likely to run into (i.e. porting to other platforms, inadequate security testing, or just anything across the software development lifecycle that poses difficul...
I've recently stumbled across the ability to use boomarks in Visual Studio. (http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/42973/Using-Bookmark-in-Visual-Studio.aspx) As far as I've googled, I've found out that the bookmarks are stored in the .suo file of the project, that holds userspecific information is that therefore not stored in sourcecontr...
My question concerns transitioning from an outside development team to an internal team. Right now we have an outside dev team composed of three devs. They handle all aspects of the development process.We would be transitioning to an internal team of two. What are typically the steps in transitioning between development teams. Is there...
I have a teamcity install that runs a series of unit tests. I added an app.config file so that the library being tested can pull test config data. This works well when using the nunit GUI on my dev box. On the CI server however the n-unit tests fail because the app.config file is not being read. Is there something I need to do in team ci...
Working in a team environment how would you handle a developer that refuses to follow team defined standards? 1) Developer is at a junior level 2) Developer is at a peer level 3) Developer is at a senior level I know this is suggestive but I feel that it would benefit developers by making them more professional. Thanks! ...
I have a team that will be using CruiseControl for continuous integration, and CC will be running on a Linux server. More than one team member may need to access the CC configuration itself: changing how tests are run, changing notification rules, etc. What is the best practice for this? My first thought was to set up a cc-users group,...
Hi, I am interested in joining my high school's robotics team. However, I'd like to know what programming language they are programmed in. I am a programmer who develops iPhone and Mac applications as well as command line tools (all c-oriented), if that helps give a little background information. Thanks! ...
Our small team (6) development team is comprised of individuals with varying skill levels and product knowledge. To protect ourselves from ourselves (or lack of experience) what branching policy should we use? ...
Hi, I'm using team foundation server 2010 @ work and home. I want to exclude some element from the project build but still have them exist in Team Foundation Server 2010 source control. How do I achieve this? Exclude From Project will delete the item. thanks ...
Hello, My team is starting our first Scrum cycle. Daily stand-up meetings are required, as of today. My question is, what is your time limit on individual speaking in a daily stand-up meeting? How long should one person speak? Does your team have time limits on daily stand-up speaking? ...
Based upon your experience If you was given the opportunity to set up the development processes for a small development team. Please detail The things you would implement, tools, documents, methodology. And how you would implement these? I wish to implement the following: Source Control Bug tracking database Formal Spec template...
Hello All, After moving TFS to a new environment and after restoring the backups, I can only find the predefined queries but can't find any custom query which should be located at "My Queries" any help? ...
I want to set up an internal chat server for our medium-sized development team (10ish people). Ideally the system would have the following properties: Access via desktop clients as well as a web-interface Persistent group chat rooms Logging of chats with a web interface with search Some easy way to share screenshots Ability to hook in ...
A team with say 100 people will be less productive (in terms of productivity per each one of them) than a team with just 5. So the question is, is there a way (a formula, a standard, or at least a hint) to estimate that overhead? ...
I belong to a .NET shop using TFS. In the last year or so we've been trying to share and between our teams (some local, some in a completely different region). Up until now, we've included shared code as project references. As the dependency on the shared code grows, we're getting into more and more problems (people modifying code th...
Hello I develop iPhone applications and some of managers want to have development snapshot version on their devices. Does anybody knows how make it in right way? thank you ...