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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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Giving estimates for large scale projects in an Agile Environment

My firm just got its first large-scale development project inquiry and I would like to use an Agile process. The client has a vision for the application but openly admits to having very few requirements and recognizes that we will have to charge by…
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How to add TODOs and track project issues in Android Studio (NOT in sources)

I am writing a new better version of my old Android project that will fix a lot of UI bugs but also has a better design, needed for integration of some new features. As I go through the source I can see all my old and new TODOs in the source, but…
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Breaking a project's first User Story in to tasks

I'm starting a new project from scratch and have written User Stores to describe how a given user will interact with the system. But, I'm having trouble understanding how to break the first user story in to tasks without the first one becoming an…
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Subversion repository statistics, other than StatSVN?

Are there other open source/free packages for producing repository statistics for a Subversion repository? I've tried StatSVN but it seems to be incompatible with the logfiles for Subversion 1.5 and above. Note, I know that TortoiseSVN has some…
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IntelliJ IDEA not showing my module/project

Suddenly, IntelliJ IDEA is showing the following module view with a strange yellow colour in the background. I don't know how to get my module back, because it is not being shown: Do you know how can I see my project folder back? Thanks
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How much of the Mythical Man Month still applies?

This book was written in the era of time sharing systems, procedural programming, and about 30 fewer years in software engineering experience. With the improvement of things such as existing libraries, higher level languages, IDES, and the amount of…
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Why should my team adopt source control?

I have the opportunity to give a formal presentation to my boss about anything that benefits the company. My idea is to adopt source control in my workplace. I have been using Mercurial to manage my own project at work, but the rest of the team…
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How did you sign a contract to an Agile project? (not how you think you would, how you did)

To execute an Agile project you first need a contract. No contract – no project! No project – no Agile, SCRUM or whatsoever! The contract, if we are talking about mid to big projects, must have well defined safety triggers. I.e. customers want to be…
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Git: Ahead and Behind together. How to solve?

I have a commit with 1 ahead and 6 behind. What should I do in this situation? I think, that solution might be like this: git push and after git pull But I think, it can solve only Behind. Maybe I am wrong. -------*------*-----*-----*-----B …
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Code version change "rules"

I know that there are no fixed rules about software version control but I have several questions. 1) How to upgrade versions correctly I have a small software that I started a while ago and since i started from scratch I started with version 0.1. As…
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What are some recommended plugins for Trac?

In particular, I need a more full fledged version of Trac to support robust project management, and task tracking. I went through the plugins and literally found over 50 that looked promising. My question is to the admins/users of Trac: which…
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What should the penalty/response for missing a deadline be?

Being relatively new to the software industry I have come across a question of deadline enforcement: Back in the idyllic age of academia, the deadline was the end of the semester and the penalty was a well defined 'F' (or local equivalent). Out…
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Too hard a project? What do you do?

What do you do when you get assigned a project that is just way too hard to do: Say it's a mammoth project and your boss thinks you alone can handle it You have knowledge to do somethings, but some other things are a little beyond your expertise at…
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Role of Testers in Agile?

I work in a team which has been doing the traditional waterfall method of development for many years. Recently, we've been told that future projects are going to be moving towards an agile (particularly Scrum) methodology. It so happens that my…
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How far do you go with YAGNI?

I am developing a new revolutionary web application for the enterprise market. Sure, many before me thought that their web app would be revolutionary only to find out it isn't. (Or it is, but the business is not good anyway). So I'm am thinking, in…
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