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Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, securing, and managing resources to achieve specific goals, as defined in the Wikipedia Article on Project Management.

Projects are, in general, temporary. Projects generally have a project owner, project manager, and a team. The project manager of the team is not a functional manager or direct supervisor of the team, but is instead a person responsible for the project schedule and the overall success of the project.

Many times, projects involve members of different functional skills or disciplines who are brought together temporarily to meet a common goal. Once the project is complete, the team may disband.

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Web Project planning tutorial

I am about to start a web project in PHP/MySql and would like to do proper planning but i have no experience in doing this, so i am looking for an online tutorial i can read that will help me learn how to plan web projects. Please post resourcesful…
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PHP Based Project Management Application (Scrum/Agile)

I've been fiddling with Redmine in the past few days and not 100% happy with the way it organises tasks etc. I need a open source PHP based solution that is like Redmine or even VersionOne to assist our small team of 3 developers with project…
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What is the best way to organise e-mails in MS Outlook?

Every software development professional (and especially project managers) has to deal with a never ending stream of e-mails. What is the best way of organising them in MS Outlook? Obviously some fancy issue tracking tools give more flexibility but I…
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Time Tracking in Scrum

Note : Before asking this question I did an exhaustive search, and found little bits of the answer in various other questions, for example: What is the best resource for learning Scrum? Scrum Process Management - tips, pitfalls, ideas Two…
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How do you manage database revisions on a medium sized project with branches?

At work we have 4 people working together on a few different projects. For each project we each have a local copy we work on and then there is a development, staging, and live deployment, along with any branches we have (we use subversion). Our…
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Web Development Work flow using git

I'm managing a team of 4 developers. We develop CMS based sites on a PHP / MySQL backend. I want to improve the workflow. What i want: Are there any services that host a git repo and sync it automatically with the servers? Production server would…
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What factors do you consider when deciding what to work on next?

Lately I've been feeling like I'm being pulled in different directions. In my company there are a lot of forces demanding my time and I'm having a hard time deciding which direction to focus my energies. I have the choice of several different…
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Free alternative to Targetprocess?

We are searching for a free alternative to TargetProcess. We would like to use the following features: Collaboration Software Project Management Gantt Charts maybe SVN/ GIT support Usual things like release plans, boards & charts Does anybody…
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What is Scope Creep?

This is going to be the noobist of all noob questions, but what exactly is scope creep, what does it entail?
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What are your feelings on functional specs? And Software design?

Does the functional spec help or hinder your expectations? Do programmers who practice the waterfall methodology, are they open to functional specs? I'm a web designer/developer working with a team of 5 programmers and would like to write a…
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How to handle multiple projects in a small team

We just started to use scrum for our project management. We are a very small team (2 developers, 1 UI/Web-deisgner ) and we have a lot of running projects at once. How do you handle having multiple projects running at once in the scrum model? Most…
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Dependency management in git repositories (using submodules)

I have a rather big project with lots of dependencies. The project is stored in a git repository and the dependencies are stored in dedicated git repositories linked as submodules. The dependencies can have further dependencies (again, using git…
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Does Scrum alone = agile?

I'm hearing about a lot of companies that act like they're agile but the only agile thing they do is the Scrum process. Is this enough to be considered agile? Using Scrum alone seems like the perfect excuse for a bad manager to get more meetings…
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Agile, Waterfall, Scrum... how difficult is it to transition a team into iterative development?

What are the challenges of transition a team in a corporate atmosphere from a traditional non-iterative, spec list, gantt chart, phase dependent team to a more iterative approach? Moreover, what was a successful way to gain acceptance with other…
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Assembla Redmine JIRA Zoho Yodiz review and/or alternatives

I'm looking for a AaaS to handle the agile/scrum project management for a commercial software development project. We are probably going to use git as SCM and ideally we would like to have a good integration between the code changes in SCM and the…
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