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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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Program Manager vs Product Manager

What is the difference between a Program Manager and Product Manager? Is there actually a difference in the roles/responsibilities or our the terms mostly used interchangeably.
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After having started a project and suddenly having found new competition, how do you convince yourself to keep going?

I understand this is a subjective question but I want to see how others dealt with this issue: How do you convince yourself and your teammates while trying to start a business or a project and suddenly faced with competition, whether due to lack of…
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Utility to search through VS projects looking for string

Can anone recommend a tool for searching my visual studio projects folders to find a specific string value? I have many solutions / projects stored in either the d:\VS2005 or the d:\VS2008 folder depending on the VS version used to create the…
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How do you implement the "one step build" for a LAMP project?

Having the "one push build" to take your changes from development environment to live server is one thing that is very nice to have and often advocated. I came on board with a small team running in a LAMP stack and use SVN for version control,…
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Scrum, Kanban or Other for 4 person dev team

We have a four person development team that is in need of a formalized project management system. I have a general understanding of Scrum and Kanban but it's hard to truly understand until it's been tried. We don't have the luxury of trying one…
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Open Company: what advice would you give?

Alexander Stigsen, author of E Text Editor is starting an ambitious project - called Open Company - in an attempt to combine the culture of open source software, with the remuneration of commercial. Read the blog post announcing Open Company. Like…
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What's the difference between Low-level functions & Top-level functions?

I need to understand the following sentence: "Charles Simonyi introduced the idea of organizing really big software teams by creating one super duper uber programmer writing the top-level functions, while handing off the implementation of the…
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How do I close the gap between developers and production support teams?

To make my question clear, allow me to define the terms of the title-- Production support teams are the resources who maintain software applications which are currently in use. The developers are the coders who write the software apps from…
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Is there a nice task/todo app/system for developers out there?

I am looking for a really basic developer task/todo app or system. Are there any good ones out there? What are you using? All I need is a good overview and being able to add time and priority to my tasks.
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organization of Redmine projects?

I'm the sole developer working on a couple of webapp sites. I have them in subversion, but I'm not using a project management tool. I recently got redmine up and going, and I want to set up the projects in there. What I'm looking for is a…
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How do one start a successful open source project?

Some time ago I observed a few people trying to start an open source project. About a week after the project started it more or less completely dissolved, partly due to issues with how the project itself was managed. The ideas behind the project…
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Forking Subversion Project

I've never forked a project before so I'm a little stumped as to how to proceed. I have a project that I use on my own that I release as a BSD licensed project (Project A). At work I want to use that code but with modifications specific to our…
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How to plan my web based project before starting code?

Me and my friend started working together as partners , we have decided to make Kick-as* website after website. We have the ideas written down like 100's of them (yes we are choosing best and easy among them first). My friend does the layout design…
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Version control for PHP Development

I have been hearing a lot about the advantages of using a version control system and would like to try one. I was doing freelance web development in PHP for the past 2 years, two months back I hired two more programmer to help me. I will be hiring…
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Sprint Lengths - 2 week vs 30 days

I want to implement Scrum, but I can't decide on a Sprint length. Ken Schwaber seems to relate that 30 days it the defacto... but I can't imagine waiting 30 days without the possibility of changing direction or reprioritizing. Our projects usually…
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