Questions tagged [project-management]
Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, securing, and managing resources to achieve specific goals.
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How should small but highly requested features be prioritized in technically driven B2B products?
In technically driven B2B products — such as hosting panels, billing systems, or extensible CMS platforms — it’s common for users to request small but high-impact features, like:
Custom messages on ...
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How can you predict with any accuracy the number of hours needed to develop an app [closed]
I'm a university student, but I don't come from an engineering or programming background. I'm doing an academic assignment where I need to estimate how long it would take to develop a website for a ...
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Story points and many small tasks
My director and I are having a recurring conversation about story points and planning and I wanted to get additional feedback from this community.
We use fibonacci story points. When we plan a feature ...
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How to Mitigate Risks Before Delivering a Project with Limited Testing?
I’m currently leading a project where I completed 80% of the work myself because I felt a strong expectation from the team to ensure timely delivery. The rest of the team contributed about 20%. Due to ...
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Rigorous way to compare designs that support the same project
When having 4 different designs that can be delivered for a project and there is a strong difference of opinions on which design is preferred taking into account functional/non-functional requirements/...
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Is it okay to have architects to work under the product owner as a part of scrum team? [closed]
So, as an architect, I work across the ecosystem, defining solutions, defining the future roadmap, and making architectural changes, upgrades, etc., along with collaborating with third-party vendors ...
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how best to take a vertical slice of something already trivial?
Lets say I have a project which is something relatively simple like a copy checker for legal text files stored in git, that multiple people contribute to via pull requests that must be reviewed before ...
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How do you do major changes within an iterative setup?
I am part of a project that develops a software with quite a clearly defined in- and output.
But the path (a chain of intermediate steps and artefacts) is not yet clear.
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Sufficient conditions for refactoring
I've found that many codebases in large companies degrade over time, only adding new features and never improving the design of the codebase. Gradually, these codebases degrade to what is considered &...
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What is a route I could take when considering setting up a data warehouse for a small business? [closed]
I am working for a medium-sized development and construction company and we are looking to upgrade our data and BI. Currently, all project data is managed via Excel (data, project management, and ...
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The role of the Product Owner in a Scrum Team following Domain-Driven Design
In the Scrum framework, the Product Owner is the person responsible for preparing the backlog, refining it, and prioritizing it. He/she is expected to be a domain expert and somebody with enough ...
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Testing against a customer's environment before releasing
"In my company, we have this distributed system over Kubernetes. Some microservices are shared among all customers, and others are up to them to upgrade. This system has to interact with A LOT of ...
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Publish a trivial libraries separately or as a collection
As an individual developer, I often find need to write a trivial (let's say, under 100 SLOC + tests + docs + build system config) library that helps me to write code of some other (large) project in a ...
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How to measure progress on a replatforming project?
I am working on re-platforming and migrating to microservice from an old monolithic application.
But I need a way to measure the success and progress of the project.
The things I thought about are:
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Shared Branch while working on User Story
Two developers (front-end and back-end) are working on one User Story, while the front-end is dependent on the work of the back-end. What is the best way to handle this dependency regarding the ...