Questions tagged [development-process]
Use this tag for questions about how to use a PM methodology in a development process.
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When to Use Waterfall, When to Use Scrum ?
Where I lecture, I was always taught to use waterfall to manage projects, but when I finished college, waterfall wasn't the only method that can be used for project management, and I am very ...
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Can Scrum be suited to smaller development teams?
I'm not a 100% certain that this is the best place for this question as it's a little more development methodology related than directly project management related.
I work at a company where the ...
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Why are estimates treated like deadlines?
This is one thing that I've always taken as a given, the "status quo" in my line of field (software development) but never really gave it a deep thought. And even now that I do, I still don't ...
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Should small teams use Continuous Integration?
I recently switched to a start-up organization providing a social network site. In my new organization, we are a small team of 8 developers/designers.
I heard a lot about continuous integration (e.g. ...
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How to structure a software development team
Given a 15x strong software development team working on individal projects, and small, medium, and large projects; what is the best way to structure this team and what is the best software development ...
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How do I improve the development process when the only 'spec' is a "slogan" from management
I am working in a new environment where a typical project consist of a “slogan” provided by management and a team of engineers who delivers a product that matches the slogan. The company doesn't have ...
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Best way to evaluate software engineers' performance?
What is a good mechanism to evaluate software engineers' performance? We need to have a PAR session every year so would like to know how to proceed and what mechanism is used within the industry.
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Separation of multi-team project into several projects
When should a multi-team project be split to run as separate projects?
Where lays the border, when something should be run as separate project?
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3 feature teams (DEVs+QAs) working on ...
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Dealing with external departments when changing to continous delivery / smaller feature scope
I'm an engineer on a small engineering team at a small business-to-business company. We're looking to transition from a "big bang" release model to a more iterative release style with smaller changes ...
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