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Questions tagged [task]

Task here is a synonym for activity in Project Management, or individual day to day work.

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In project management, a task is an activity that needs to be accomplished within a defined period of time or by a deadline. A task can be broken down into assignments which should also have a defined start and end date or a deadline for completion. One or more assignments on a task puts the task under execution. Completion of all assignments on a specific task normally renders the task completed. Tasks can be linked together to create dependencies.

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Calling multiple async services in parallel

I have few async REST services which are not dependent on each other. That is while "awaiting" a response from Service1, I can call Service2, Service3 and so on. For example, refer below code: var service1Response = await HttpService1Async(); var…
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How can agile be applied to applications involving complex processing?

Most of the literature on agile seems to be biased towards CRUD type business applications where the user is pretty much aware of what is going on behind the scenes. (That's fine because most of the code being written probably belongs to this…
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Who should define, assign, implement, and follow the tasks in Scrum?

Roles in scrum are Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Scrum Team. A user story should also break down into smaller pieces called tasks. A task seems to have four phases, namely, definition, assignment, implementation, and following. Who should do what…
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What defines "software developer" role

I am a junior software developer and I have been working for a company less than a year. While I always thought being a software developer means to develop software and CODE something, my tasks are more in administration type of work, such as…
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How to have TFS automatically add certain tasks to new work items?

We use TFS at my workplace to manage our source code and track development. Whenever we have a bug or work to do, we always have to do the following two tasks as a minimum: Test the work, or decide whether testing is needed. Update the release…
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Shared Development Tasks for Agile User Stories

My team is going to be using Visual Studio Team Services for an upcoming project. The Agile tools let me organize User Stories and Tasks hierarchically like this: Epic > Feature > User Story > Task/Bug Let's say that I am designing a Student Org…
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Best algorithm to sort tasks by priorities by a human

I have developed a task management tool. And some task lists can be very large. (I have myself more than 300 tasks to do). I would like to do some task reviews from time to time as the tasks pile up to be able to sort them by priority. I imagine…
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Task Planning on an Agile Team

At the beginning of each sprint our team will pull in a handful of user stories and then, one by one, write slightly more detailed tasks for them as well as assign specific hours to each task. Having individual tasks helps us establish our sprint…
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How can we effectively manage software projects without killing creativity?

I am convinced that software development is essentially a creative process. I also believe that this is the case for all levels, from architecture to coding. What makes me think so? To put it very briefly, because a software developer is supposed to…
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When is it safe to use Monitor (lock) with Task?

In a multi-threaded environment, we must consider concurrent access to writable resources. A common approach is to use Monitor or its shorthand form lock. Task is at a different abstraction level than Thread. A task may run on a thread of its own…
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What happens differently when you add a task Asynchronously on GAE?

Google's doc on async tasks assumes knowledge of the difference between regular and asynchronously added tasks. add_async(task, transactional=False, rpc=None) Asynchronously add a Task or a list of Tasks to this Queue. How is adding tasks…
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A 'task' system which has an ending, to get ready for next task

I want to make a system, so that there are certain tasks. For example, let's talk about a game. I want to make it so there are 100+ tasks doing different things, but when the player's magic level is 5, it will do the magic task, if the player's…
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Name of this pattern

I create an object that holds the status of a job. The job has many stages, some concurrent. Worker threads constantly monitor the status object to see if it's ready for the next stage to begin, if it is the perform the job, update the status object…
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Solve Synchronization

I want to solve Synchronization with a Message Queue In the wikipedia page of message queue, I read: Most messaging systems support both the publisher/subscriber and message queue models in their API I used python-rq (celery in the past), with fun…
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Get service data of future iterations

I have a doubt with threading data service calls within a foreach loop. Here it goes: Say you need to request data from a service and then process that data, for this example, let's say data request takes 2 seconds and data processing takes another…
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