Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow

Questions tagged [project-planning]

QUESTIONS ABOUT SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT METHODS AND PRACTICES OR PROJECT MANAGEMENT ARE OFF-TOPIC. Please consider Software Engineering or Project Management Stack Exchanges for these questions.

208 questions
10
votes
3 answers

Python OO program structure planning

I'm a beginner in OOP and I want to create a program with three classes, A, B, and C. Each instance of the class is defined by a set of characteristics, Achar1, Achar2 etc. The program is supposed to create uses comprising of element of A, element…
098799
  • 462
  • 1
  • 4
  • 17
10
votes
15 answers

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…
jrutter
  • 3,173
  • 9
  • 42
  • 51
10
votes
6 answers

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…
Artem Russakovskii
  • 21,516
  • 18
  • 92
  • 115
9
votes
2 answers

django: how to evaluate a project for refactoring

Has anyone of you done evaluation of a django project and how to improve/refactor it's code base? A pet project in company I work at is becoming more widely used and it would be good to improve its quality before further development. Are there any…
gruszczy
  • 40,948
  • 31
  • 128
  • 181
9
votes
8 answers

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…
Jason
  • 16,739
  • 23
  • 87
  • 137
9
votes
6 answers

Planning a programming project by example (C# or C++)

I am in the last year of undergraduate degree and i am stumped by the lack of example in c++ and c# large project in my university. All the mini project and assignment are based on text based database, which is so inefficient, and console display…
Lunan
  • 183
  • 1
  • 3
  • 8
9
votes
5 answers

Big picture planning with Agile

I did some fairly thorough reading and searching through SO and didn't find anything on this topic, so hopefully I'm not creating a dupe. If this has been asked before I would appreciate a link. I work for an enterprise development shop that is…
RationalGeek
  • 9,425
  • 11
  • 62
  • 90
8
votes
3 answers

Visual Studio Plug-in to measure time spent on Solution/Project

does anyone know of a Visual Studio (2008) Plug-in that attempts to track how long you've spent working on any given Solution or Project? I realize this would be difficult, like at work I might leave a Solution open all day, but only work on it for…
andy
  • 8,775
  • 13
  • 77
  • 122
8
votes
1 answer

How can I track issue from multiple different issue-trackers in a single place?

Like a lot of open-source developers I find myself interacting with maybe dozens of different projects' issue trackers - some for work, some as a hobbyist; some frequently, some more rarely; sometimes to report bugs, sometimes to contribute patches,…
slinkp
  • 3,406
  • 2
  • 21
  • 18
8
votes
10 answers

Tools for a lone developer setup?

I'm a lone developer who would like to get some structure to my projects. My hardware setup is a laptop running windows XP and a desktop running Ubuntu that acts as a storage server. I currently use Mercurial as my source control system with my…
Jared
  • 39,513
  • 29
  • 110
  • 145
8
votes
4 answers

Warning signs to look for in a potential customer?

I have seen a few questions about how to interview potential employees and employers, but this is something fairly important that I've come across in the past and I'm sure a lot of other users here will have too: If you are running a small…
glenatron
  • 11,018
  • 13
  • 64
  • 112
8
votes
14 answers

Employee Scheduling Software? Web/Browser Based

Just wondering if any of you guys know of any web-based/browser-based employee scheduling software/tools? Currently doing it all in Excel, but it just isnt intelligent enough... any product suggestions? Needs to handle multiple employees time over…
Andykiteman
  • 702
  • 1
  • 7
  • 17
8
votes
9 answers

Is it a good idea to apply some basic macros to simplify code in a large project?

I've been working on a foundational c++ library for some time now, and there are a variety of ideas I've had that could really simplify the code writing and managing process. One of these is the concept of introducing some macros to help simplify…
Tim Leaf
  • 388
  • 3
  • 15
7
votes
7 answers

How do you measure a small, big, very big project?

I am reading Code Complete as well as a couple of other programming books at the moment. The size of the project affects a lot of other parameters that you need to take heed of in planning, coding, automating tests, etc. I was wondering what people…
Stefan Thyberg
  • 3,445
  • 3
  • 23
  • 29
7
votes
11 answers

Twitter for work updates

If you are sending work/progress reports to the project lead on a daily or weekly basis, I wondered if you would consider using Twitter or similar services for these updates. Say if you're working remotely or with a distributed team and the project…
cringe
  • 13,401
  • 15
  • 69
  • 102
1 2
3
…
13 14