I have been working at my current company for almost two years. Recently the team I'm in has neared completion of a project and as what the future holds for us is up in the air some of us have been assigned to work with another team (but still have responsibilities with our team - meetings, maintenance, etc). I was wondering if anyone...
Have there been any studies on productivity and code quality comparing team room approach aka bullpen versus private offices? I've only been able to find studies comparing the faux office (cubical) versus the real office. I've read about both Caves and Commons and peopleware. ...
We are currently working in a team where we use both Visual Studio and Code::Blocks, is there a way to replicate changes between those project files? So if one adds a file to the project file it will also get adjusted in the project file of the other IDE? Please note: We want our project to work on multiple IDE's, platforms and compiler...
Hello, I'd like to know about software development teams that use twitter (or yammer or laconica) in their process. What are you reporting? Do you have automated tweet e.g. from build or test machine? Thanks a lot for your answer. ...
For small-to-large teams developing software together, what tools are used to form a comprehensive team development framework? Specifically, I'm looking for a comprehensive list of all the individual functions involved (e.g. source control, bug management, testing tools, project management), not specific product recommendations. I'm ...
Hi there, Lets say that me and my friend are trying to work on same software project. We are not located on same location but we wish to be as productive is possible. We are using Visual Studio 2005, the code has to be written in C/C++ and at this moment we send the code using zip files. My questions are: 1) what approach should...
Hey guys, I really love using FogBugz but as a startup we just can't handle the cost of 100 Dollars per month(hosted) or 942 Dollars per year for four developers. I am not using the wiki neither am I using it as a help desk software. I really just need a program for our developers where we can track all the cases, assign them to someone ...
When you right click on a file and select "Compare...", you get a few different options: Changeset Date Label Latest Version Workspace Version The first 3 are pretty self explanatory. But what is the difference between the latest version and workspace version? 4 seems like you are comparing the code on your machine to the latest vers...
Post edited for clarification (original post at the bottom). I wish to reorganize the R&D staff from horizontal (i.e. specialty or component based) teams to vertical (i.e. feature, self sufficient) teams. I'm likely to end up with 3-4 teams, with developers and QA engineers who collaboratively can work with most aspects of the product. ...
Is it possible to create a TFS project based upon a modifed template and then modify the project portals website layout to include the logo, layout, and content that we would like to use and then export the TFS Projects portal to be incorporated with the default project template? ...
When making the case for library usage within an application, what arguments lead to the greatest success? How have you successfully helped co-workers see the benefits of library usage? Specifically in the context where: 1. The library is open source. 2. The library is for JavaScript, HTML, CSS. 3. A team of developers has a culture wh...
I have never had the opportunity to work on or with a team of programmers. Can someone describe what it is like to work on a team. Who does what, when and why? What positions are required to make a team? What has been your experience working on or with a team of programmers? (I've heard horror stories about fist fights, late sched...
I'm working on quite complicated project, in terms of business-logic quantity and quantity of components. Each developer mostly works on "his own" component. I understand that this isn't very cross-functional, but it is impossible to know every components' details. Team sostav changes from time to time. So we have situations when one p...
I am working in a small software company, which has grown from 4 to just over 50 employees (1 to 12 developers respectively) in the last 4 years with me being the lead developer/manager of the development team. No developer has quit so far and during the last round of feedback interviews everyone emphasized that they like the environmen...
Hi. I have some trouble getting my team foundation server to work. If i try to access the http://:8080/services/v1.0/serverstatus.asmx with the "administrator" account everything seems fine. But if i try to access it as some other user i get: TF10216: Team Foundation services are currently unavailable. Try again later. If the problem ...
We are a .NET shop, mostly coding using C# in VS. We created coding standards for our organization, and now we need to enforce them. We can use tools like FxCop & StyleCop. What we want: On each developer's PC, have settings that will give them a warning or error when they compile their code. When they check in the code into version...
Hello, We are setting up a new TFS 2008 implementation as our first usage of TFS for source control. We have several projects in Visual Studio 2003, 2005 and 2008, as well as other script/non-Visual Studio based projects. My question is, for the Visual Studio 2003 and 2005 projects do we have to install Team Explorer 2003/2005 and mak...
Hello, A whole team of programmers who were managing a project in our company have left the company to start their own venture. Now,How do I carry on? itseems quite hopeless. Please advice... Thanks ...
How do you grow from 6 to 20+ developers and maintain the same productivity? When I started at my company there were only 6 of us doing development. There were no communications issues. Each developer knew the system from top to bottom and was capable of implementing any feature. At the start of each release cycle each feature was estima...
I currently run Visual Studio 2008 SP1 connecting to Team Foundation Server. I want to try out the VisualSVN client connecting to a separate repository I have in SVN. Is it possible to install the VisualSVN client on my existing dev machine such that I can use Visual SVN for some of my solutions and TFS for others? ...