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How to stop the development spec from changing in mid development?
Problem: It seems with almost every development effort I'm involved in, no matter how much time is spent planning prior to starting development, there is always a large amount of changes required ...
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6answers
723 views
How much can one programmer do on his own?
With software products taking whole teams of people to develop, how much can one programmer accomplish on his/her own? In other words, could a single person write Photoshop, MS word, etc...? And if ...
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7answers
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How can I complete a project as a single web developer?
I am a PHP 'developer' who codes for fun. My problem is I have never completed my large projects. Please I would like to know how experienced programmers like you are able to complete projects ...
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3answers
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What should I be responsible for as the first developer in a large scale web project?
I am the first developer in a large scale web project, in the real estate sector.
I am not an expert in any field, I know the basic of all, programming, databases, something about design and a little ...
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3answers
215 views
Making big changes incrementally
Currently working on a complete front-end and back-end overhaul of our webapp. We did this because a lot of changes needed to be made to the database schema as well as the user experience.
Now we are ...
5
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2answers
342 views
Is it common to separate back-end and front-end into two positions on web development projects?
At a web startup, is it more common to have an engineer working the front-end AND back-end of the feature (basically in charge of the whole feature)? Or have engineers separated between the back-end ...
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7answers
307 views
Handling out of hours support
This isn't a programming question per se - more about application management. I work for what started out as quite a small company, which has grown rather quickly and become very succesful in a ...
5
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1answer
166 views
How do you define a project for a web developer?
I am primarily a web designer, and a very rookie web developer.
Say I have a comprehensive web app I want developed through a freelancer on Odesk.com
What is the best way to effectively communicate ...
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4answers
145 views
Stick with custom or migrate to CMS?
I have a site that has been built from scratch by a few different programmers over time. The first programmer, who built the initial system and database, was not very tech savvy. Other programmers ...
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2answers
230 views
Web-Development preparation and entire project workflow
I work as a lone programmer on web-development projects(front and back-end) - I have completed a couple of projects, so I'm fairly new at this, I have read and tried a few approaches and reached a way ...
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5answers
939 views
What's a good methodology for a small 2-person project?
Hello
What's a good methodology for a small 2-person project? Ranges from 20-40hr.
It's mostly small websites. I want to approach it as a developer, but Agile and other methodologies seems too large ...
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5answers
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Avoid losing time making budget
I often receive some potential client who wants me to make his web site. Some of them end up as real clients and give the project. Some others (the most) have no idea about prices and times.
For ...
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3answers
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How to manage tailored/branded web tools?
We produce a number of analysis tools which we re-brand and customise for other businesses to include in their websites.
The tools are typically product comparison, data/trend analysis and report ...
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0answers
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New website - best practice for requirements specs? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Extracting user requirements from a person who does not know how to express himself
As a hobby freelancer I'm new to this. I've never had a non-technical client before ...
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6answers
346 views
Can you successfully keep managing when you are forced back into development?
For about eight months I managed a development team doing a re-write of a web based application. During this time, I was focused on many aspects of the project that did not involve directly writing ...
