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Questions tagged [project]

A project is a collaborative and planned activity for attaining a particular goal.

Please use the tag if you have a question revolving around the management of a project.

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How should I behave as a developer in a project that's headed for failure?

I am a developer in a 5-member team and I believe our project is headed for disaster. I'll describe why in a moment, but my question is: how should I behave? The deadline is in 1.5 months, and I feel no matter what we do, this project will fail.…
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How should you deal with a popular project that you no longer want to maintain?

I am the maintainer of a project which has a large non-technical userbase. I've been maintaining it for about 4 years now and adding new features as they've been requested. I'd like to move on to other projects now and stop developing for this…
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Earning extra cash as a programmer

I work as fulltime programmer and have a pretty well paid job for the country where I live, but I could do with a bit of extra cash at the moment (wife nagging about new kitchen etc.). I'd be interested in taking on small projects in my spare time.…
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Programming with a group of people I've never met

I've been assigned a group project from my AP computer science class, and I am required to work with three other people. I've never talked to them before, I have no idea their skill level, and all I have is their email address. The assignment,…
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How to explain that it's hard to estimate the time required for a bigger software project?

I'm a junior developer and I find it hard to estimate how much time it takes to finish a bigger software project. I know how to structure the architecture in general, but it's hard for me to know what details I have to do and what problems I have to…
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What makes a project big?

Just out of curiosity what's the difference between a small, medium and large size project? Is it measured by lines of code or complexity or what? Im building a bartering system and so far have about 1000 lines of code for login/registration. Even…
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Why do large IT projects tend to fail or have big cost/schedule overruns?

I always read about large scale transformation or integration project that are total or almost total disaster. Even if they somehow manage to succeed the cost and schedule blow out is enormous. What is the real reason behind large projects being…
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How to promote an open-source project?

First of all, I apologize if this is the wrong section of network to post this question. If it is, please feel free to move it to more appropriate location... Question: I would like to hear your ideas regarding the ways of open source projects being…
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Dangers of huge monolithic application

The big project I'm working on for a couple years now is a control (and everything) application of an advanced device, heart of its firmware. The device is quite advanced, with more different functionalities than I could say from memory, and 98% of…
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What makes documentation good?

I need to write documentation for several projects I worked on. I was wondering what, according to your experience, makes documentation useful and complete. What part should I include, how deep should I go in my explanation, etc? My target audience…
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How to tell client I no longer want to work on his project

This is probably going to sound messed up, but here it goes. I've been working on a project for a client for a while now. I wasn't given any details except for "It has to be an XYZ plugin and interface with ABC product". Which was fine, but now…
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Can the Scrum method be used with only one person and only one 10 day Sprint?

So I have to do a project for about 10 days. About the work, lets just say Im going to develop a Website with a front-end and a few interfaces between internal services. Now I have to use a projectmethod and I'm thinking of the Scrum Method. But…
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Reconciling contradictory programming advice: get something working and iterate vs. really think it through before coding

I am an intermediate programmer with a few years of professional experience who is halfway through a masters degree. In learning to program I've often heard two pieces of seemingly contradictory advice. The first piece of advice was get something…
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Effective way of keeping past projects with their working development environment?

I find that whenever I want to go run a past project, it will take a long time before I can find it and before I have everything set-up again for it to be able to run. For example, I have python projects I created in Linux, and it depends on…
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Is quitting the only reasonable response to this situation?

I read an interesting article, 10 reasons for quitting IT. I quote a part of this text: "This misunderstanding of both duty and technology does one thing: It makes your job impossible. When the powers-that-be begin to micromanage your…
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