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Questions tagged [scheduling]

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Is it normal for a company to have programmers on such a rigid schedule?

So I've been working at this job for a couple of months. I'm a little frustrated because I do my best work from 2 to 7. In previous jobs, I've come in at 9:30-10:00 and leave at 7. Some companies have been okay with this, others have not. But my…
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Why is software schedule estimation so hard?

Possible Duplicate: Why are software schedules so hard to define? I often need to explain to senior management why software estimation is so hard, and why our preliminary estimates are often so far out. I suspect some want to know why it is not…
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Encouraging software engineers to track time

How can I encourage my coworkers to track the time they spend resolving issues and implementing features? We have software to do this, but they just don't enter the numbers. I want the team to get better at providing project estimates by comparing…
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How can you make a cluster run a task only once?

If you had a task that you wanted to run only once on a cluster of servers, at a regular interval what would be the best way of achieving this? The definition of cluster in this case is 2 or more identical servers with distributed sessions sitting…
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Setting realistic expectations for deadlines

I'm a tech lead for a small team. One of the major tasks on my plate is communicating with the client. One thing I find particularly difficult is dealing with deadlines because they are mandated by the client and I'm frequently not consulted.…
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Find out whose turn it is to buy the croissants, accounting for possible absences

A team has decided that every morning someone should bring croissants for everybody. It shouldn't be the same person every time, so there should be a system to determine whose turn it is next. The purpose of this question is to determine an…
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Are there any build systems that incorporate relative expected task times into the schedule?

Here's a small illustration of my question: Assume a build job that consists of 4 independent tasks named A-D. D takes longer than A-C do in sum. A build system that cannot incorporate the relative task times might schedule the tasks like…
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How can I advocate a semi-strict release schedule in a risk-averse environment?

Recently I've been increasingly plagued by what I would have to describe as one of my most frustrating and morale-killing experiences in this profession: Having to sit on a release that has been tested, re-tested, staged, and for all intents and…
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Does late have any meaning in Agile methodologies?

This came out of some of the answers and comments on another question (this one). I've worked primarily with waterfall projects and while I've worked on ad-hoc projects that have taken on agile behaviours and have read a fair bit about agile, I'd…
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Need help identifying a league scheduling algorithm

I am trying to create a sports league scheduler. I am having trouble identifying an algorithm to help me efficiently fill in each slot. Sample data to build the schedule would be: 10 teams Each team plays each other 1 time (45 total…
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How do tight timelines and scheduling pressure affect TCO and delivery time?

A friend's father, who is a software engineering manager, said, emphatically, "The number one cause of scheduling overruns is scheduling pressure." Where does the research stand? Is a moderate amount of scheduling pressure invigorating, or is the…
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Fair distributed task scheduling with RabbitMQ

Problem: A single client of our system can completely flood all available resources with a massive workload. You can consider we have only one queue, and anyone can schedule any amount of work in it. Any other client that subsequently submits a…
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Making API calls with celery

I'm designing a system for a client where the requirements are: they upload a JSON file (one object/line) make a call to an API with the JSON object as the payload record the state (success/failure) of each API call in a database make one retry if…
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Why is it optimal to schedule shorter jobs first on a uniprocessor?

On a uniprocessor, it is apparently optimal to schedule jobs that take less time first assuming non-preemptive scheduling - once a job runs, it must finish. Why? I am confused about how the ordering would change the overall latency. Since a…
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Advanced Job Shop Scheduling Algorithm Question

I've looked into numerous solutions for the simple version of this problem, but I've found no solutions for advanced cases, short of sorting through all possible permutations. I don't know where to begin this question, but I'll do my best. In my…
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