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How to infer my Assumptions I based my time estimate on?
In an answer on how to make time estimates it is said to write down all your assumptions you made when estimating a project. Seems like a good plan.
Problem is, by assuming I already made an ass out ...
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What is the difference between waterfall model with iterations and evolutionary software development model?
Does anyone know the difference between those two?
They are both created by iterative approach - giving successive revision after each iteration. They both have the initial ...
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Are tools and addons for IDE's good or bad? [closed]
Is the usage of IDE'S addons good or bad?
Does it improves your programming skills or not?
Why it is good to use them and when not to use them.
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cost trade-offs for deploying changes to prod, stored procs vs. LINQ
Some context for thisi question: it is not about development time over the entire iteration of development, but just the stage of deploying changes from dev to prod environment. "LINQ" here really ...
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When to Stop Debug
I've read the article about fixing bug in this post What process do you normally use when attempting to debug a problem/issue/bug with your software?. One of the answer which I noted is "take a rest" ...
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What does a code review look like?
I'm writing a code review process document for our team; we've never had a formal process in place although we do do some code review.
I've found lots of articles talking about how important code ...
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Is Agile Development used in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing?
I've been developing web apps for a while now and it is standard practice in our team to use agile development techniques and principles to implement the software.
Recently, I've also become involved ...
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Finding an agile coach
I'm hoping that this is the right place to ask this question, but my company has recently started a process to look at how we build software, from the tools we use to the methodology. As you can ...
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How far has process-i-fi-cation of SW engineering come in the past 10 years?
I read a UML book a long time ago (15 or so years ago) by the inventors which said something like "software engineering should be like building a house". Meaning architects produce blue prints, and ...
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What is the difference between Software Project Management Process and Software Development Process?
What is the difference between Software Project Management Process, and Software Development Process, or Software Life Cycle?
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Pros and Cons of Joint Application Design
I was asked to lead "JAD sessions", which I've heard of before, but never facilated before; at least in name, they appear just to be a fancy name for stakeholder workshops.
My experience has been ...
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Manufacturing vs Software Development
It's often said that the software industry is immature compared to manufacturing. Specifically with regard to being process driven.
Question:
Can we as developers learn from the processes of the ...
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What's the best way to handle multiple simultaneous “streams” of development in version control?
My department is planning on working on our next several releases (spanning a year) simultaneously. The powers that be are advocating we support this by refactoring all affected code into classes ...
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Using bug-tracking / issue-tracking software to discuss design questions, new tools etc
Does anybody have experience with using a bug-tracking / issue-tracking software like bugzilla, mantis or JIRA not only for bugs or tasks, but to initiate and maintain discussions that in the end lead ...
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Role of “Refactoring” in good programming pratices?
I have learned in Agile Development that:
Refactoring is the process of clarifying and simplifying the design of
existing code, without changing its behavior.
I have heard about some GUI ...
