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Delivery Plan in Azure DevOps
I am managing projects having multiple Hives. Each Hive has 10 squads and the project cut across multiple squads.
I have created delivery plan to track project in ADO.
I would like to get inputs on ...
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Simplest and quickest way to portray an application for development [closed]
As a designer I sometimes feel the need to portray the main idea of an application in a graphical form like a flowchart. Something that is easy enough to understand for the development firms and could ...
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Deciding when to build your own or to reuse in a project with deadlines [closed]
I have a project which requires some complicated components built. Some of these components are promised by some obscure software packages which are proving to be poorly documented and difficult to ...
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methodology for a team coursework [closed]
I need a methodology to organize my team for a university assignment.
I am a university student and already have some programming experience. My experience of working in teams of more then 2 people ...
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Empirically estimating a project duration [closed]
What are common empirical formulas that can produce a rough estimate of project duration for waterfall methodology ( up to 20% fluctuation is acceptable). If it helps in narrowing down the answer, ...
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Looking for a sample C++ program for learning how to start up a project [closed]
I've learned the most basic of C++ but I feel like I don't know how to organise the code and start up a C++ project. I've searched for guides about project/code organization without very much luck.
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Building and Planning of a Web-Application [closed]
Good morning everyone,
I hope I'm not posting this in the wrong place; I've been programming web projects, mostly in MVC and ASP.NET for consulting companies, but I always pick-up unfinished projects,...
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What's the best way to generate a (nice looking) roadmap? [closed]
I'm using internally a simple text list to represent roadmaps. But that's not enough when it comes to present the roadmap to some powerpoint accustomed decision makers.
Do you know of any techniques ...
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Database User Interface Design Process [closed]
I am the only developer at my organization and am expected to develop databases and interfaces to those databases. Developing online front-ends using web frameworks is time-consuming. Do other people ...
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Suggestion and Idea tracking [closed]
I'm searching a software (web-based, php/mysql) that allows users to (anonymously/with registering) write suggestions or ideas on a project. The project itself does not necessarily have to be software-...
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Prediction Effort - how does that relate to time to complete projects? [closed]
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" ...
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The Right Way to start and finish a small-scale software project? [closed]
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 ...
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To do lists in project management [closed]
I'm not sure if this an appropriate question for stack overflow. If not, I apologize.
I was wondering if there is any tool for keeping track of different uncompleted tasks in different modules of a ...
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How much time should a Project Manager spend on a typical IT based project [closed]
We've had a number of projects where the costs have been scrutinised recently and one thing that has come out is that people believe there is too much time allocated to the project managers' role.
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Web Project planning tutorial [closed]
I am about to start a web project in PHP/MySql and would like to do proper planning but i have no experience in doing this, so i am looking for an online tutorial i can read that will help me learn ...
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Cutting off features or delay schedule (close to code completion) [closed]
would like to explore what are the general practices in
dropping features
make a decision to delay the project schedule
design the features in a way that can be dropped with lesser pain
delay a ...
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MS Project File Associated with Multiple TFS Projects [closed]
Is there a way to associate a single MS Project file with multiple TFS projects?
Here is the situation: I have two projects that are related and have dependencies on each other and I would like to ...
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Organizing code, logical layout of segmented files [closed]
I have known enough about programming to get me in trouble for about 10 years now. I have no formal education, though I've read many books on the subject for various languages. The language I am ...
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How do you organise your tasks related to a single project? [closed]
I'm working on a project that has components, components have features, features have bugs. I can't organise these tickets tidily. What kind of tool do you use to keep these things in order?
I'm ...
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how do I manage filenames in my php project
I have a problem regarding the filenames management in my PHP project.
If I have a large number of PHP files in my project and I rename a PHP file then this will result in changing the name of file ...
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Big picture planning with Agile [closed]
I did some fairly thorough reading and searching through SO and didn't find anything on this topic, so hopefully I'm not creating a dupe. If this has been asked before I would appreciate a link.
I ...
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Boehm’s Model - Explanation [closed]
I am reading through "Mythical Man-Month" and near the end in the updates for the 20th anniversary edition it talks a bit about Boehm's model and the optimal time to delivery based upon the ...
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What is better: set up underestimated or overestimated deadlines? [closed]
Suppose you are a project manager. You can estimate an effort in days for specific task for specific developer. After performing estimation you obtain some min and max values.
After this you delegate ...
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Adopting software project management and testing protocol from scratch [closed]
I work in a small company (2-4 software developers) where software is "only" a part of the main product (specialized measurement instruments). So far the software has been built from start to end with ...
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Managing Project Development for Single Programmer? [closed]
I am going to be starting a new job in a few weeks where I will be responsible for both the maintenance and development of a couple of existing web applications and the development of new web ...
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Ideatorrent open source alternative [closed]
Are there any open source not drupal bundeled alternatives to the not very active Ideatorrent project?
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Forcing related development tasks to stay together in Microsoft Project when Resource Leveling [closed]
When planning a software project, I wish to force Microsoft Project to keep several tasks that are dependent on each other and assigned to the same resource together, without other tasks interleaved ...
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Has Crashing or Fast-Tracking a project schedule ever worked? [closed]
I posted this question on Reddit Programming and did not get a single response. So I am hoping that Stack Overflow community will have an opinion.
Have any of you ever been on a software project ...
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How to manage a project when it is frozen/delayed for an indefinite amount of time [closed]
Right now, I'm extremely frustrated because I was in the process of developing some cool mechanism to optimize a calculation system by reducing the number of calculations from around half a million to ...
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What is the acceptable upper limit of time allocated to a single development task? [closed]
When asked to estimate and/or while reading my coworkers estimates they often read something like this:
Make new ############# page with feature ############## - 8 hours
Create new ########## control ...
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Software task/project planning books? [closed]
I'm looking for a book that tells you how to split up a software (or anything; doesn't have to be software-specific) task or project into discrete chunks, and helps elucidate all the issues and ...
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What's the difference between managing "product development" and "software development" [closed]
I would like to know, from your expertise, what you consider to be the main differences and/or similarities of managing the development of products and software in large teams.
By products, I'm ...
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How far should you go with estimating your tasks? [closed]
What is the good resolution of time to use for estimating duration of your tasks?
is it like 0.5, 1, 2, 5 days or should you go down to hours like 0.5, 1, 2, 4 hours and then continue up to days?
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Is there a good reason to make time estimates for features that are months out? [closed]
I was in a meeting today with a consultant (consulting us on internal procedures) and we went through an exercise of planning out the next three months of development. I'm not opposed at all to doing ...
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After having started a project and suddenly having found new competition, how do you convince yourself to keep going? [closed]
I understand this is a subjective question but I want to see how others dealt with this issue:
How do you convince yourself and your teammates while trying to start a business or a project and ...
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webframework effort estimate [closed]
How do convert effort estimate say in function points to a specific web framework like django? Or is effort estimation solely dependent on the architecture of the web framework? ANy hints or ...
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Is function point analysis still used for estimates? [closed]
In one discussion among colleagues I have heard that function point analysis is not used nowadays since it can go wrong for various reasons.
So WBS (work breakdown structure) is used commonly.
Is ...
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Script for creating development environment folder structure?
How would look like a simple script ( cmd.exe batch, *nix shell , perl , python or whatever .. ) for creating folder structure for development environment.
Suppose we are in a project where we need ...
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Visual Studio Plug-in to measure time spent on Solution/Project [closed]
does anyone know of a Visual Studio (2008) Plug-in that attempts to track how long you've spent working on any given Solution or Project?
I realize this would be difficult, like at work I might leave ...
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How do you give a valid time estimate for something you have never done? [closed]
As a new developer who is the only software guy on staff I have faced a few challenges but possibly the most difficult has been time estimates. I strugle every time I have to give a project estimate.
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Determining which features are enough to launch [closed]
How do you determine what features are enough for launching? Should we launch with the "bare functionality" without goodies? Or should we add "bells and whistles"?
How do you decide? Is it true we ...
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Higher level project management (portfolio management) software? [closed]
Probably not the best wording for that question but...
I understand there are things like MS Project to manage tasks within a project, however I'm looking for something one level higher. I need to ...
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How do you measure a small, big, very big project? [closed]
I am reading Code Complete as well as a couple of other programming books at the moment. The size of the project affects a lot of other parameters that you need to take heed of in planning, coding, ...
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Do you inflate your estimated project completion dates? [closed]
If so why? How much?
I tend to inflate mine a little because I can be overly optimistic.
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What are your feelings on functional specs? And Software design? [closed]
Does the functional spec help or hinder your expectations? Do programmers who practice the waterfall methodology, are they open to functional specs? I'm a web designer/developer working with a team of ...
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Requirements or Testing? [closed]
If you had to do without one or the other in a software project, which would you pick?
I've had plenty of projects in which the client or PM thought they could get away without one or the other. We ...
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software documentation templates [closed]
Does anyone know any source of examples and templates for software requirements, build environment description and other kind of documentations that are common for software development?
Thanks!
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Sprint Lengths - 2 week vs 30 days [closed]
I want to implement Scrum, but I can't decide on a Sprint length. Ken Schwaber seems to relate that 30 days it the defacto... but I can't imagine waiting 30 days without the possibility of changing ...
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Using Scrum in fix-length/fix-priced projects? [closed]
I'm a Scrum newbie and looking to implement Scrum in my company. Obtaining buy-in is not a problem, it is my company and the developers are more than happy to work like this.
The problem is that 75% ...
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How to plan test time [closed]
Say suppose 10 developers have taken 6 months to develop some application. As a project manager how much time should I spare in my plans for testing?
6 months of effort includes unit testing. I am ...
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