Questions tagged [methodology]

A methodology is usually a guideline system for solving a problem, with specific components such as phases, tasks, methods, techniques and tools.

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What to read as a good quick review and intro into development process methodologies?

Being mostly self-taught freestyle developer and having no experience of working in teams of professionals in serious software companies, having only a very general idea of how the software development is should really be done, I think I've came to…
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jQuery paradigm?

It seems to me that jQuery doesn't seem to be written as an OOP framework, it seems too short, and not verbose enough for that. Am I right in thinking this and if it isn't written as OOP, then what methodology/paradigm are they using?
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How and when to use Fragments in applications?

I am very in doubt of the structuring of my application. When to use Fragments is a big question for me still. I understand the concept of fragment, but I would like to know how more experienced programmers use them. Is it really only when there is…
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How to move over

Uphill about 5 years ago my career was going fairly well, but separation, family deaths and a bit of illness caused me to make a couple of BAD career decisions, and I ended up in a dead end job doing mainly vb 6, though it was the end as mid to late…
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Unit testing huge applications - Proven methodologies?

I've been working in windows forms applications and ASP.Net applications for the past 10 months. I've always wondered how to perform proper unit testing on the complete application in a robust manner covering all the scenarios. I've the following…
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Has the role of the Business Analyst become redundant on true Agile projects?

On a truely agile project where the business is performing the role of the product owner, is there still a role for the Business Analyst? The product owner would do the functional testing as soon as the user story is developed and document and…
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RUP (Rational Unified Process)

I have chosen to use the development method RUP (Rational Unified Process) in my project. This is a method I've never used before. I've also included some elements from Scrum in the development process. The question is what the requirement…
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which are the best best tutorials, books, software to start and manage a .net Agile Project with No Experience

which are the best tutorials, books, software and practices to start and manage a new .net based Development Project in an Agile way with no experience with it. which methodology is easier to adopt XP|Scrum?
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Would you use VersionOne also as issue-tracking system (aka BugZilla)

Within our Agile / Scrum team there is the idea to start using VersionOne as the project planning tool. My question is, can it also handle the issues (defects; new feature requests; improvements; patches) that come in? Meaning can it also replace a…
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Where's the definitive resource online about how to carry out Agile development?

I want to start Agile practices in a team. I'm assuming the information is available for free online about how to specifically carry it out. Online I can locate the manifesto, the alliances and corporations involved but where is the actual central…
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Best case to move to an agile development methodology?

If you had to make a case to a business about adopting or moving to an agile development methodology (like SCRUM or XP etc) what case would you make (how do you sell the concept)? e.g. How would you describe the concepts and benefits to a…
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Anyone got any tips for organizing/managing a solo development effort?

I've got a project I'm starting to tinker with that is a solo project but I'd like to try to stay organized and have some methodology to work from. Most methodologies that I've seen are aimed at teams. I'm wondering if anyone has any links or…
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What are good tools for using Model Driven Development with Embedded work?

I believe there has been some up-take of model-driven development / engineering (aka OMGs model driven architecture) in the real-time and embedded software development sectors. What tools and tool vendors have people had experience with? Google…
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Why is SendKeys bad practice?

When dealing with signal interrupt issues, the Ctrl-C SIGINT would close my ssh session. (I'm sure you've all heard this before, and I'm certainly sick of it too - so I won't bother explaining that further.) In short, I could achieve the desired…
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What is Object-Oriented Methodology?

I have been looking at different programming methodologies: Scrum, waterfall, spiral but someone told about one called Object-Oriented. Now as far as I know that's a paradigm and not a methodology. If it is a methodology can someone please explain…
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