Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, securing, and managing resources to achieve specific goals.
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Task ownership with Wordpress - CSS - Designer or Developer?
We have a dispute regarding who owns which tasks when it comes to the CSS on our live site.
Our designer argues that he is not responsible to log-in to word press and modify the css or use ftp for ...
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How to visualize the design of a program in order to communicate it to others
I am (re-)designing some packages for R, and I am currently working out the necessary functions, objects, both internal and for the interface with the user. I have documented the individual functions ...
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Given a project and working with 1 other person - never worked with someone before [closed]
I'm taking a class where I work with a partner to implement the link layer of the OSI model.
I've worked programmed with a partner once before and it went bad. Is the goal to divide the work up and ...
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How to balance programming projects between feasibility and usefulness [closed]
I've become fairly competent as a programmer, but I would not say I am a master. I work independently, most as a hobby, although I have done some freelance PHP work. I tend to find myself dabbling in ...
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Where can I hire local programmers with very specific skillsets?
I have been browsing the site and haven't found a exact fit to this question so I'll post it but if its already answered(since I'm sure its a common problem, then let me know).
I have a business and ...
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Should I be looking for developers with specific skill sets or generalists that need to learn?
Thanks to the great help of this site and SO, I've been able to make a prototype of a software I want to sell but unfortunately although the prototype works I think my code quality is very low. I ...
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How can I get better at explaining complex software processes to developers?
I'm really struggling with my software specs. I am not a professional programmer but enjoy doing it for fun and made some software that I want to sell later but I'm not happy with the code quality. ...
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In a team practicing Domain Driven Design, should the whole team participate in Stakeholder meetings?
In my experience, a Software Development Team that comprises:
1 Project Manager
1 Tech Lead
1 - 2 Senior Dev
2 - 3 Junior Dev (Fresh grad)
Only the Tech Lead & PM (and/or Senor Dev/s) will ...
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Programming vs Planning
Recently, I have been tasked with more high-level planning assignments due to the lead developer of my team leaving. I hate long-term planning. My brain just doesn't naturally seem wired for it, and ...
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How to measure the right time to bring a new client? [closed]
My growing company has a team of developers working on a number of separate projects. Our developers depend on us to keep them working, and we depend on them to make our clients happy. Our projects ...
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is SCRUM useful for the project's success? [closed]
I work for a company as a Project Manager. My company want us to get training in SCRUM and is sponsoring the training. So is SCRUM useful for the project's success?
Should I go for the SCRUM ...
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Can Foswiki be used as a distributed Redmine replacement?
I am quite familiar with and love using git, among other reasons due to its distributed nature. Now I'd like to set up some similarly distributed (FOSS) Project Management software with features ...
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Community Programming
Background
I just began working for a religious non-profit organization. As with most non-profits, the organization is resource-poor and has no IT department to speak of. In my two months here I've ...
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Case insensitive keywords in a language
We're trying to write a custom scripting language. There has been a suggestion to make the language forgiving by providing case insensitive keywords.
I personally do not like the idea, but there are ...
