Questions tagged [software-development]
This tag is for questions about software development projects, as opposed to questions about construction projects, or some other field that doesn't involve software.
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Am I just getting milked by my development team?
I'm trying to develop a new technology. Now I have to get the website (aka the Front End) part of it working. I'm running a small startup and pay a foreign software team to do the development.
The ...
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As a product Owner can I tell a developer to seek help before they submit pull request in JIRA?
My organization somewhat implemented Agile but assigned Product Owners to also be the Scrum Master. In one of my scrum meetings, one of the developers said they did not have experience in a certain ...
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How Can I Successfully Transition to a Junior IT Project Manager Role with My Background? [closed]
I have spent 3 years in IT recruitment, where I also had some project management responsibilities. I have 4 years of experience in e-commerce (my own business). For the past 7 months, I have been ...
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2 week agile sprint calendar
Let's say we arrange a sprint in agile methodology.
The sprint will last for 2 weeks.
let's say the first day is Monday of the 1st week &
last day is Friday of 2nd week.
In this setup, on what ...
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Ticket Scoping for Integration Tests and New Components of System
I am a software engineer trying my best to scope out some work in ticket form. My question is: what is the best way to write stories to include integration tests between two components which don't ...
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How to select between upfront waterfall planning with a fixed schedule and a milestone-driven approach?
Team Composition and Framework Disagreement
We are developing a software product, and we release a major version twice a year. The team has 2-3 developers and a product team that provides support and ...
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Who ensures that the backend API is compatible with the user interface?
In SDLC, who is responsible for ensuring that the backend API is compatible with the UI/UX?
Tester, front-end developer, software analyst, or some other role? I think that it's the responsibility of ...
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DevOps & Development Teams Processes, Procedures, Communication & Coordination to ensure tha latest supported technologies are used in development
Like many IT departments, we have numerous Developer teams, and DevOp teams.
Recently, our .NET Development Team just completed an application
based on .NET 3.1 that took around a year to complete.
We ...
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Ticket/task managment for multiple repositories on a same application
I'm looking for an improvement when managing work on one specific project.
Right now we have one application that has 3 repositories that are querying the same database. All three repositories (...
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How can I effectively manage a ticket which needs developers from multiple teams?
I'm a new project coordinator.
My company is developing a telemedicine - AI mobile software. We have the AI team, the Back-end team (as BE) and the front-end team (we call them Mobile). So each time ...
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According to scrum, how do you handle troubleshooting problems in an application as a developer?
Maybe if I give a couple of examples it will explain my question better. I am a Lead Developer and I've noticed that frequently it's difficult to estimate the amount of time troubleshooting and ...
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What is the best way to limit access permissions for a group of developers? [closed]
What is the best way to manage a group of developers without giving them access to the whole codebase?
I have a project with a front-end and a back-end. I want to be able to give new developers just ...
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Who speaks to the client when there are some errors in the documentation that the client delivered?
We have a web development project with a client. This project has plenty of formulas and documents (around 100 formulas per block, and 5 blocks for the whole project.
The Product Owner created a ...
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Sprint planning estimations and who is involved
In the past but only in 1 team, during the sprint planning, the product owner provided also an estimation for the story discussed, not so much as to use that estimation instead of the developers, but ...
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Story Points given by task owner leads to disagreement
Hypothetically speaking
There's one big project that requires involvement from different members - infrastructure, backend, frontend, security, etc.
The members are working a flavour of Scrum using ...
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Epics, stories, and tasks
I am new to project management in the software world and have been tasked with setting our user requirements and setting up our project board accordingly. I understand the structure of Epics, User ...
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How does the use of CI/CD make it easier to handle the loss or absence of key staff?
I'm working on a project that has no CI/CD. We have only one person who builds the code and deploys it to staging and production. In the past there have been discussions on implementing CI/CD, but to ...
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Managing R&D projects that don't have a 100% chance of success
I have to do a quote for a contract work with a small company to do an AI task on images (classification, pattern recognition with specific conditions).
With "classic" programming tasks, you ...
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Define an MVP for eCommerce project
I am building an eCommerce project and I wanted to define the MVP of it so that I can build it in an iterative way in an agile fashion so I can shorten the feedback loop from clients and adapt asap....
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Project Management on a team with diverse skill set? [duplicate]
Assume I have 2-3 Objectives (OKRs), and 1 to 3 Key Results (KR) per Objective.
Today here’s my workflow:
I work with my team during grooming sessions to get a high level cost to achieve the KR. I do ...
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Project Management on a team with diverse skill set?
Assume I have 1-3 Objectives (OKRs), and 1 to 3 Key Results (KR) per Objective.
Today here’s my workflow:
I work with my team during grooming sessions to get a high level cost to achieve the KR. I do ...
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What methodology to choose for rewriting an existing software, incremental or waterfall?
We are rewriting and re-designing a desktop application (something like QGIS) into a new Web Based application with new technology.
We almost know 80% of the requirements and use cases because we have ...
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How to improve our developer retention and development output?
I am a mid-level developer at a small company of about 15 people, and I am (aiming at) leading a team of 3. I am concerned that my team suffers creeping disinvestment in the project and company ...
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Which is the better general guideline, "prefer standardization" or "don't care about standardization"?
In my software development team, we have established some guidelines to help single developers take decisions on their own. Recently, some discussion arose around one of those guidelines. It deals ...
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Where does development process improvement fall into the product development lifecycle?
For most of my career as a software developer, I have been a part of Agile teams using Scrum, Lean Startup, or Kanban.
The Product team usually has goals for keeping the product running, improving the ...
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