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How should I pitch moving to an agile/iterative development cycle with mandated 3-week deployments?
I'm part of a small team of four, and I'm the unofficial team lead (I'm lead in all but title, basically). We've largely been a "cowboy" environment, with no architecture or structure and everyone ...
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What is the difference between Agile Modeling and the Agile Manifesto? [closed]
By searching for the different software development methods I found that there are two AM:
Agile Modeling
Agile Manifesto
The problem is that I can't get the difference between them. If one is a ...
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How to gain personal practice at heavyweight development methodologies?
I'm in a new job where the project needs to meet strict quality standards, be heavily documented, managed in great detail, UML diagrams, and all those things that are opposite of "cowboy coding" where ...
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Methodology between Scrum and Rapid [closed]
I would like to ask about which one is the best and appropriate methodology for someone who is developing a mobile application that consist of phases during the development process? Basically the ...
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Flowchart for solving programming problems
I noticed that every developer implements a somewhat different flowchart for solving programming problems.
By flowchart I mean a defined system of techniques that the developer goes through in a ...
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Is the Waterfall software development methodology still viable?
In my experience, it seems as though the Waterfall model has proven to be too inflexible and non-responsive to requirements changes to be considered a viable method in the modern world of software ...
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What are the monetary benefits of going agile? [closed]
Why go agile? This is the first question that comes to my mind when I think of going agile. What are the possible financial benefits one can achieve from going agile?
Most of us certainly like to ...
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what does “domain” mean when referring to DDD
What does the word domain mean regarding driven design/development?
Not in terms of semantics or a scholarly definition but in terms of how it modifies processes or philosophies?
I was reading a ...
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What issues should we be aware of converting to Agile/Scrum with a project that's underway? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
What have you seen go wrong when introducing SCRUM?
Let me preface the question by telling you that our company doesn't have any formal "thou shalt..." processes in ...
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Scientific evaluation of programming methodologies [closed]
There are now a a variety of programming methodologies: Scrum, Extreme Programming, Kanban to just name a few. Most of them combine several more basic techniques (for example frequent iterations). ...
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Personal Software Process (PSP1)
I'm trying to figure out an exercise but it doesn't really makes to much sense.. I'm not asking someone to provide the solution. just to try and analyse what needs to be done in order to solve this. ...
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Is it possible to write software that doesn't need to be continually modified?
I have written a lot of software in many different languages, and I've also "written" hardware for use with FPGAs using Verilog and VHDL.
I tend to enjoy writing hardware more than software, and I ...
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What is this development methodology called?
I recall a methodology that emphasized making functions short and numerous. It said that if a section of code can be separated at all, it should be, even if the resultant functions are only used ...
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How do I go about choosing a development lifecycle model model?
Based on this question about alternatives to the agile philosophy and its answers and comments I thought it might be useful to discuss what goes into the decision of what "methodology" to use when at ...
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Large Ecommerce Site Topology and Deployment Guidelines
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I am a lead engineer for a highly trafficked eCommerce website (upwards of 1m page views an hour). For various reasons we have the opportunity to rebuild large portions of our ...
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Planning Development Projects
We are currently re-evaluating the way we manage, plan and run our projects (an area that I think we can massively improve upon) so I just wanted to get some ideas as to how other development teams go ...
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What would a piecework-based payment system for software development look like?
In software development, a developer is usually paid either annually (by fixed salary) or by the hour. For the most part, it seems like this works. However, I've seen industries where professionals ...
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Should we adopt an agile methodology when rewriting an existing application from scratch?
I work for a small product based company. We are about to re-write our existing product from scratch. We are planing to adopt Agile methodology for our development. Now my question is as we have all ...
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Tdd on a datadriven webapp
How would one go about to use tdd/bdd on a mostly data driven webapp? For example a blog or a forum?
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What do we mean by “design” in software engineering?
I have been reading about different software methodologies. Every method has a design phase to some extent, more or less.
I am not clear on what we mean by designing. Does this mean writing your ...
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Which software methodology works when you are in learning phase of a technology?
In my scenario, we have a team of experienced developers with 3+ years and they are not co-located. We are in a learning phase in terms of the domain and technology. I want some recommendations in ...
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What is the minimum subset of best/well-known practices in software development for a solo programmer?
I've been the lonely programmer in my work for quite a long time. Usually I've read articles and posts about
Version Control Systems
Continuous Integration/Delivery
Development methodologies: Scrum, ...
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Tool that turns truth table into smallest possible if / else block
Is there any application or tool that will take a truth table and turn it into a compacted if block?
For instance, lets say I have this truth table where A and B are conditions and x, y and z are ...
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Is SCRUM Methodology a good technique to go with in crucial deadline project?
I am just join a firm and they are working in a (their called) SCRUM methodology, They have very sharp deadline and the project development doesnt seems to have any direction or neither it is looking ...
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Do I have the wrong idea about software engineering? [closed]
Hello folks I have a question which's been raised by my latest job (rather intern).
Just to put things into context - I'm 21 and I've finished my 2nd year of university before that I've had around 2 ...
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Does scrum have any merit in defense contracting?
Overheard at the watercooler yesterday: "Scrum has no place in defense contracting."
I tend to disagree in the sense that I believe Scrum can be tailored to work in many scenarios and I can see ...
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What is a good example of a software development idea or technique that was a failure?
Specifically what are some examples of where ideas of the masses where just wrong. Why did people latch onto the ideas in the first place? And why were the ideas dismissed? Or perhaps the ideas are ...
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BDD: Getting started
I'm starting with BDD and this is my story:
Feature: Months and days to days
In order to see months and days as days
As a date conversion fan
I need a webpage where users can enter
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What Software Development Life-Cycle (SDLC) methodology or methodologies are used by Google?
Does anyone know or have information about which Software Development Life Cycle methodologies are used by Google?
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Development methodology for single web developer? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Design and Development Methodologies for the single developer
I'm a web developer who mostly works with the LAMP stack when it comes to my own projects. Most of the time ...
