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viewsHow to make the initial budget for a software project?
Context: I was "educated" in the methodology of Unified Process. I know Agile is very popular today, but I have very little knowledge of the process. I understand the philosophy that "changes are…
project-managementasked 10 years, 4 months ago mgibsonbr 80,631 -
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viewsWhen to use Waterfall and when to use Scrum?
There is a clear way to determine when a software development project should be conducted using a methodology Waterfall or use Scrum? What criteria should be observed to choose one or the other?…
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viewsWhy use Git for individual development?
In 2008 I asked an OS question about version control for solo developer and received an excellent response from Jon Skeet indicating the use of SVN. Unfortunately it was recently closed and removed.…
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viewsWhat is the purpose of the software development sequence steps?
I was reading the answers to the question When to use Waterfall and when to use Scrum? and came across something cited by the user utluiz which left me with doubt, which is the sequence of software…
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viewsWhat is technical debt?
Technical debt is the sum of some types of backlog in your project that can prevent the evolution of your project. However, this concept is much more comprehensive than that, and I would like to…
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viewsDocumentation at the beginning of a project working alone
Studying object-oriented analysis and design I found various types of documents that are built before any code is developed. Among these documents are user Stories, use cases and several UML…
software-architecture project-management software-projectasked 9 years, 8 months ago SomeDeveloper 18,074 -
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viewsRewriting vs Incremental Improvement?
In the place where I work I am implementing new features in a legacy system. The system in question was written around 2008. Some problems encountered in the system: Database tables with 90+ columns…
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viewsAt what point in a project should the platform be chosen?
When a project is designed (i.e. a need is identified, and it is decided to develop a computerized solution for it) one of the first things the customer asks: on which platform should the software…
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viewsWhat are the differences between the available versions of Visual Studio 2015?
Last year it was announced 3 versions of Visual Studio 2015: Community, Professional and Enterprise Based on the tools available in each version: what I miss between using one and the other in part…
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viewsSoftware development: paradigms
I’ve always heard and still hear many comparisons, someone claiming to build software is assimilated to a building construction. I see that engineers are able to design buildings on time and within…
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viewsWhen to use RUP and when to use Agile?
What parameters should I use to determine whether a project will be more successful if conducted through a methodology Agile (Scrum, XP), or through the Unified Process (RUP, Praxis)? I can think of…
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viewsWhat is a Backlog?
Was reading regarding the term Backlog, but I did not understand very well what he would be in relation to Scrum. Well, according to this website, there are some variations of Backlog, and it seemed…
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viewsWhat to do if the end user doesn’t want to collaborate?
After reading a lot about agile methodologies and Domain-driven design, I was convinced that it is of vital importance for the development of software that the domain specialist (who is often the…
software-architecture software-engineering project-management requirementsasked 7 years, 11 months ago SomeDeveloper 18,074 -
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viewsDifference between epics and Features
In Visual Studio Team Services you can organize the backlog in epics, Features and user Stories. For each Epic, a set of Features associated can be defined, and for each Feature a set of user…
software-architecture software-engineering software-project project-management requirementsasked 7 years, 10 months ago SomeDeveloper 18,074 -
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viewsOrganizing requirements using Visual Studio Online backlog
I recently started using Visual Studio Team Services, mainly for the availability of free Git private repositories. After a while I realized that it has several resources to manage requirements and…
visual-studio software-project project-management requirementsasked 8 years, 4 months ago SomeDeveloper 18,074 -
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viewsWhat is the best free and online tool as an alternative to Jira?
The jira is a great tool to track bugs and stories, but is paid. Someone knows a free and online compatible tool?
project-managementasked 9 years, 1 month ago Frederico Coêlho 61 -
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viewsHow to manage a project with several variations?
How you manage the development of an application that is replicated to multiple customers? My setting: An application web and 2 apps (1 for iOS and 1 for Android). For each client the base (master)…
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viewsHow do you "synchronize" a branch with a master before working on it?
I’m in the following situation: I have a Git repository, and at a certain point I created a branch from master. I didn’t do much in that branch at the time, and then I advanced the master branch…
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viewsWhat is UML? What is it for?
A conceptual issue. What is UML? What good is? Is it really useful? Therefore, we must learn? Is widely adopted? What defects of this language? Is linked with object orientation?…
software-engineering uml software-project documentation project-managementasked 3 years, 6 months ago Maniero 444,682 -
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viewsHow to correctly write a project vision document?
I am a developer who works alone and for some time questioned here on what documents would really be important to be produced at the start of the development process. Analyzing the accepted answer,…
software-architecture software-engineering ddd software-project project-managementasked 7 years, 10 months ago SomeDeveloper 18,074 -
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viewsStages of Development
1 - What is the first technical document about the system (I think the vision document?!). How to write it, which software to use? 2 - To each stage that is delivering, how to do it? It may seem a…
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viewsWhat is the difference between pull-based and push-based Development?
What is the difference between pull-based and push-based Development in software engineering? This refers to Git as well?
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viewsHow to determine Stories users?
An important process in software development is the organization of what really needs to be developed and the prioritization of what needs to be done first. As far as I have seen, one strategy to do…
software-architecture software-engineering software-project project-management requirementsasked 7 years, 11 months ago SomeDeveloper 18,074 -
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viewsHow to understand and deal with the cost of Azure?
I’ve known Azure for a long time, read a lot and watched several videos but never used it. What I know about payment is that you only pay for what you use. It turns out that recently an acquaintance…
software-engineering windows-azure asp.net-core project-management microservicesasked 7 years, 3 months ago SomeDeveloper 18,074 -
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viewsHow do you know when Brooks' law applies?
"Adding more people to a delayed software project results in an even longer delay". But when I know that this law applies, for every law there are exceptions. Sometimes a project really isn’t…
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viewsHow to structure the development of a program?
I’m about to start on the software I’m going to develop for TCC (C# + Mysql). The problem (for now) is not code, but how I will develop my project in a structured way, and without "curling up" too…
software-project project-management project-organizationasked 9 years, 2 months ago Diego Oliveira 31 -
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viewsSprint in Scrum methodology can’t have the scope negotiated?
Regarding the scrum methodology, would like to know. It is correct to state whether during the Sprint: The scope can be clarified and renegotiated between the Product Owner and the Development Team.…
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viewsWhat are the project organization standards?
Large companies use methodologies in the development of projects that result in an organization of software (packages, classes, interfaces). There are various patterns that a programmer can use, but…
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viewsStatistics for remote requirements collection
When developing software one of the main steps is the collection of requirements, the acquisition of knowledge of the domain and the construction of a ubiquitous language. Both agile methodologies…
software-engineering ddd software-project project-management requirementsasked 8 years, 10 months ago SomeDeveloper 18,074 -
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viewsHow far do you try to predict the future when designing an application?
How far can we or should we try to predict the future when designing an application? Be it architecturally or in design. What makes a rugged change-face design without being overly planned? It is a…
oop software-engineering software-project project-management requirementsasked 4 years, 6 months ago Piovezan 15,850 -
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viewsDoubt about having control TFS version
I am learning versioning, my doubt is with respect to the terms shown in the figure below Epic and Issue, looking for their translation for me did not make sense how to use these options to create a…
terminology visual-studio-2015 versioning team-foundation-server project-managementasked 8 years, 2 months ago rubStackOverflow 7,372 -
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viewsRepresent project
I’m looking for a way to represent a balloon-shaped system, flows. I thought about using UML diagrams, I did a part, but I came across a difficulty, of expanding specific things.Without opening…
project-managementasked 7 years, 8 months ago Valdo Batista 21 -
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viewsHow to generate Code Churn in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)?
In this article, I noticed that it is possible to generate Code Churn reports for TFS: I would like to generate similar report using Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). This is possible and, if so,…
visual-studio project-management visual-studio-onlineasked 7 years, 2 months ago Augusto Formentão 82 -
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viewsIdeal environment IT sector
In a reformulation of the work environment, where 10 programmers work, there is some study/article where demonstrates and explains the best layout for table layout coupled with increased…
project-managementasked 10 years, 9 months ago Marcony Felipe 879 -
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viewsHow to make divisions in the software development process
We have a whole project architected on paper, drawings, sketches, what each part of the system will do, but how can we manage the team, define by which part of the code to start? By news feed or by…
project-managementasked 10 years, 7 months ago João Neto 2,676 -
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viewsCan I centralize all my project Header’s into one? C/C++ Language
Good afternoon. I have a problem with my C project. I have made some libraries and would like to centralize their imports in just one header so that when calling all, give a #include only in the…
c software-engineering software-project project-managementasked 3 years, 10 months ago Felipe.ferreira 11 -
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viewsOrganization of projects with qMake
I’m developing a project and would like to start separating things into smaller parts and also to be able to test those parts, so researching found something about using the *.pri files to be able…
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viewsWhat are the advantages of using a Current status in applications?
It is common that during certain moments an application goes off the air for an important update or for some reason it is already slow. Companies that have many services choose to use a status that…
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viewsA strange case in the management of a project. What position to take?
The issue is related to project management, where this was the best (perhaps only) way to expose my doubt before the situation. I agree that it was a little long, but I found no other way to focus…
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viewsHow to work as a team with Git?
Fork and Pull Requests or direct contribution within the repository? I’m starting a project at Github and I’m a beginner in programming. What are the best practices for working in teams? Direct…