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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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version control for one-man project using eclipse?

I'm currently working on several projects on my own (at least the developing part is done only by me :). Using Eclipse with different Java, R, SQL and other source files I'm wondering what version control system would be best for me. At the time the…
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A Opensource alternative for basecamp?

Is there a Opensource based basecamp alternative? Or even a free hosted version of it?
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What is better: set up underestimated or overestimated deadlines?

Suppose you are a project manager. You can estimate an effort in days for specific task for specific developer. After performing estimation you obtain some min and max values. After this you delegate a task to developer. Actually you also set up…
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How to hand over a project systematically?

We have a project hand over from on shore team to our team (off shore) not long ago. However we were having difficulties for the hand-over process. We couldn't think of any questions to ask during their design walk-through, because we were…
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Cannot add embedded binaries (other projects) to project dependencies in XCode

I have an XCode workspace created with XCode 6.0.1. It constains 2 (Swift) libraries and one iOS app (Swift) that depends on those 2 libraries. I had stable setup that allowed me to run the iOS app on both iPhone and simulators: The 2 library…
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Function Point Analysis -- a seriously overestimating technique?

Bounty clarification I know it's a subjective question. The ideal answer I'm looking is one that explains why the quoted scenario here would be so surprising. If you think the quoted scenario is it fact not surprising and to be expected, please…
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How do you handle large projects?

I've just inherited a large project previously coded by about 4-5 people. The documentation consists of comments, and is not very well written. I have to get up to date on this project. How do I start? It consists of many different source files.…
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How do you protect code from leaking outside?

Besides open-sourcing your project and legislation, are there ways to prevent, or at least minimize the damages of code leaking outside your company/group? We obviously can't block Internet access (to prevent emailing the code) because programmer's…
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Tracking requirements across multiple projects with JIRA (or other tools)

My company has been using JIRA as a requirements tracking tool as well as a bug tracker, and it's been working pretty well while we've been working on one project at a time. We now have a scenario where we have three different project proposals…
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How to adapt agile to different companies? An MBA thesis

My master's thesis is to look at how to apply agile. There is an awful lot of corporate selling of agile - lots of management consultants selling their brand as 'best'. I'm not interested whether XP, Scrum, Crystal Clear, Agile-CMMI, Six Sigma or…
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Time management tricks, tools & tips

Working with software day-to-day usually means you have to juggle project work, meetings, calls and other interrupts. What single technique, trick, or tool do you find most useful in managing your time? How do you stay focused? What is your single…
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Why mailing lists for project collaboration?

I've noticed that a number of open source projects continue to use mailing lists in lieu of forums. I've personally found mailing lists to be cumbersome and unsearchable, making it harder to solve/discuss technical problems with projects employing…
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Personal Project Planning

I want to design a 2D game idea with C#/XNA. Between school, project inexperience, limited resources, and other things that may cause me to bail on the project I am going to try to plan it out before I jump in: What are some key aspects you've…
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Should you include non-development tasks in your Scrum backlog?

We're having trouble incorporating certain types of tasks into our product and sprint backlogs: Meetings with clients Training and knowledge-sharing Administrative tasks Some of these aren't directly related to the project, so it's easy to put…
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Scrum. Dealing with low prioritized stories that will introduce architecture change

today in the university we had a Scrum practicing exercise (simulating the whole process of creating a software solution) and I came up with an issue that couldn't quite understand. Let's say we've had defined our stories and give them a proper…
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