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Questions tagged [project-planning]

An activity in project management that includes defining the project scope, creation of schedules, and allocating resources.

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What should I do when waiting for a review?

Before asking my question, I must explain the situation. I'm working for a company as a junior software engineer. One of the seniors always stops me when I have finished my development and want to commit. He always wants me to wait for him to review…
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Planning poker with visually impaired colleague

At the office we just got a new colleague who is visually impaired. I'm in charge of organizing the planning poker sessions and the new colleague must participate as a member of the team. We have these nice sets of poker cards with planning poker…
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How should I plan and start a project?

Every time I start a project, I decide at crucial moments to completely change the core classes and get caught up in obscure errors. I try planning in advanced and usually start off on a good foot but then I go to it another day and decide I would…
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Tips for planning a rewrite of a large PHP project?

I've decided to completely rewrite a PHP framework (Using MVC) that I've been working on, on and off, for years. My problem up until now was that I would just come up with ideas, throw them into Trac as tickets, and add them later - without worrying…
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Does it work when a developer is the project manager's boss?

I am in the planning stage of a project and I am looking to hire a project manager. I would like to do some coding and keep eye on all parts of the project. However, i have a feeling that a project manager will get better results. I have the…
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What to do with a development team that is starving?

It sucks being on the critical path as normal developer, especially if you're late. When you're the senior developer, that the team is looking to for leadership, it's even worse. When work for most of the team is stalled waiting on some critical…
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Does a time estimate equal a promise in Scrum?

If an estimate is not a promise then as a product owner how can I deliver my projects without knowing how long it will take? Does a Scrum team work more efficiently if we treat time estimates as a promise? How much research (preparation, effort to…
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In Scrum, what to do when story points and task hours don't roughly correlate?

Our development team is pretty new to the scrum process, so I would like to help refine our methods to make better use of it. In particular, I noticed that the correlation between story points and task hours is not very good. That is, we often have…
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Plan, Build, Run organization philosophy

I am looking for some logical explanation of how software development fits into a Plan, Build, Run model of an organization. I am struggling to find anything which explains how software development projects fit into this structure. In fact the body…
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How do I break down and plan a personal programming project?

I've just started a programming job where I'm applying my 'How to code' knowledge to what I'm being taught of 'How to Program' (They are different!). As part of this, I've been taught how to capture requirements from clients before starting a new…
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Alternatives to *documents* in the SDLC?

Since no one prints anything any more, the concept of actual project documents (meaning, a monolithic piece of formatted text) seems like it could be improved on. Problems with documents are things like Word version incompatibilities, endless…
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Estimating scrum points for non cross-functional team

We are working to transition our development team to be more Agile. I have a question about story point estimation and their relationship to an individual's skill. The scenario is that our team members do not have cross-functional skills. One might…
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UML diagrams to describe how a new feature will impact/affect an existing system?

What kind of UML diagrams can describe how a new feature will impact/affect an existing system? For example; my usecase is we have an existing web application (system) that uses framework specific user login & authentication. We need to change the…
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How are crossplatform/multiple-OS C++ projects planned in terms of code and tools?

I want to create a project in C++ that can work in Windows, Linux and Embedded Linux. How are projects created when they have to work across many OS'es? Is it first created on one OS and then the code slowly modified to be ported to another OS?…
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Estimating time for planning and technical design using Evidence Based Scheduling

I'm at the beginning of a development project in a large organization. The Functional Requirements are currently being worked out and documented with our business stakeholders by our Enterprise Design department. I'm required to produce Technical…
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