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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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TFS 2015: How to use CMMI (Portfolio-)Backlog work item types

We are using TFS 2015 together with the CMMI process template for work item tracking of our customer projects (where we not only deliver software). I must say that I am not absolutely sure how to correctly use the different (Portfolio-)Backlog work…
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Cutting off features or delay schedule (close to code completion)

would like to explore what are the general practices in dropping features make a decision to delay the project schedule design the features in a way that can be dropped with lesser pain delay a project schedule with good estimation without re-delay…
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Development best practices: automatically grant permission to application's new folders

Some functionalities require new folders in my application and sometimes I need to grant write permissions to those folders. At the moment, when I upload the code to production environment, I need to manually grant those permissions in the server.…
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Matrix Comparison between Spiratest and Testlink Test Management Tools

I've our QA division is looking into implementing either Spiratest or Testlink, depending on whichever is the better of the two. I do know that the former is paid for and the later is an opensource tool. I'd like a matrix or spreadsheet with…
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How can a change be brought about in the testing process that follows waterfall?

We are a small company and i am a test coordinator appointed to bring a process in testing for the company. We dont have a testing process in place. Development-Deployment and testing happens almost daily and the communication is established over…
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Managing code transitions between developers

What are your best practices for making sure newly hired developers quickly get up to speed with the code? And ensuring developers moving on don't set back ongoing releases. Some ideas to get started: Documentation Use well established…
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Project hosting vs. my own SVN

I'm working on different projects with some small teams (2-3 people for each). Those projects are about some scientific stuff, most (probably all) the code will be released under GPL after the publication of some results and we don't want to spend…
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Planning Large Projects?

How do you start planning a fairly large project? Do you immediately start writing up the major classes and break it down further and further? Do you sit down and draw out some UML? I'm designing my first large project (well, large compared to the…
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In JIRA, is the burndown chart ignored when associating a new workflow and new statuses in your project?

I've introduced a new workflow that I'm using for my project, and everything looks so good so far. There was one unintended effect,though. When I applied everything and the new statuses were applied to current issues, the burndown chart showed…
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How can we *set* deadlines, to allow us to work to them effectively, in an agile way?

I'm working in a team that's been consistently and fairly successfully working in an agile approach, and this has been working great for the current project until now, for our initial work, as we incrementally build the product. We're now moving…
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How do you combine components of large c++ projects?

I have a question about how large c++ projects with many components are supposed to be managed (I guess is the best term). For all intents and purposes I'm a beginning programmer. I understand the basics of compiling, header files, etc., but I've…
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What type of Java Project is Netflix-Graph

Java has various project types and the worse thing is that I'm a newbie in Java. Netflix hosts a open-source project on GitHub: github.com/Netflix/netflix-graph/. I want to know which kind/type of project it is ? Console, EE, or ....? Also, how can…
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Project management - replacement to JIRA which wouldn't support SVN

We were working with JIRA and SVN and it was great. I love the way JIRA works and think. Unfortunately JIRA will stop supporting SVN on Oct 2013. I do want to continue with SVN. I need a tool that supports mainly the followings: Task blocking (I…
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What are all of the automated build tasks that can be performed?

I'm curious. I'm looking into creating a CI server and wondering, after the first couple of obvious tasks, what else can an automated build do? The tasks that I'm aware of (not in any order): Compile (debug/release versions) Code style…
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A good project-mangament system for communicate, bugtrack etc

I am looking for a good app / website that would have * some issue tracking system * maybe documentation managment system * possibility of creating chat rooms, or at least one group chat. * Todo lists Do you know something like that ?
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