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What is the best way to allow a client to contribute to a project?
We've been building a CRM for a client. Now that the first major phase has been finished, and a second one agreed upon, the client would like to pick up some of the work, making minor amendments to ...
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Advice/guidelines for managing a distributed development team
What are some strategies, methodologies and best-practices for managing a distributed team?
What can be done to encourage and enforce communication between the various team members?
Is it possible ...
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Scrum for team split between two spoken languages
I have a team that without a single common language among all of the team members. The team is split across two locations (though the geography isn't the main issue). All team members in each location ...
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How to setup a distributed version control that can commit to subversion
We have a trac server setup that works with the svn commits, so we can do things like "fixed #183" in the commit messages, and references changes involved. Right now I have eclipse with subclipse + ...
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Cross border data obfuscation and how to deal with it?
I am currently facing a situation where I will need to obfuscate data for legal reasons (these are countrywide rules and not specific to me)
I will still need to work with teams outside this area who ...
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Tools and/or methods for regular Code review of Remote development team
We are outsourcing a development to a small team of offshore devlopers. Our in house process for code review is manual, paper based, based on a waterfall model requiring "big bang" delivery. It ...
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Best way to work easily with a database in remote programs?
In Database 101 you learned never to distribute the sensitive database password along with your program, since all a person has to do is reverse engineer the program, find where you actually need the ...
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Governance models for multi-institution open source projects
I'm working on an open source project that has full time professional developers from several universities, plus a couple of other organisations. The product has something like a dozen deployments, ...
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Distributed Development Tools — (Version control and Project Management)
I've recently become responsible for choosing which source control and project management software to use for a company that employs me.
Currently it uses Jira (project management) and Subversion ...
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Must-read when managing virtual teams? [closed]
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Advice/guidelines for managing a distributed development team
As a software engineer, I've been working remotely for 10+ years. Either by choice (I like working from ...
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Looking for a distributed locking pattern
I need to come up with a custom recursive object locking mechanism\pattern for a distributed system in C#. Essentially, I have a multi-node system. Each node has exclusive write permissions over ...
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Experiences with Sococo for distributed Scrum teams?
I just came across Sococo and it looks like an incredible solution for distributed Scrum/agile teams.
Does anyone have any experience with this?