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How to make the most out of a beginner-level development team?
I now find myself in a scenario, mentoring no more than 8 beginner-level developers and tasked with the development of a reasonably complex SPA website. It is to be developed using React (which the ...
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How do I calculate server requirement for a web application
I am developing a backend where in I will be exposing APIs for my mobile application. Users can register,add products,share the links of products through email/sms/anywhere and others can click on it ...
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COCOMO II SLOC count for web application development
What type of SLOC do you take into account for estimating web application development projects with COCOMO II?
For instance, suppose you have to estimate a web application project that will probably ...
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How to split up ASP MVC Project using Code-First Entity Framework
For an academic exercise, we have been tasked with creating a small website. We have already gathered the requirements and fleshed out the business domain to see the classes we are supposed to support....
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What's the best way to scale and split an agile team building a web app?
I've recently joined a company where I'm working as the scrum master on an agile development project building a web app.
The team is just about to be the maximum size for an agile team (expecting 9 ...
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How should we handle extra cosmetic features in Scrum sprints?
I was reading the Scrum documents and it says that the tasks in Sprint should be "potentially shippable".
I am confused by what this means. Suppose in Sprint 1 the goal was, "user registration form".
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Can I demand code quality on a project I've gotten
I have been given a Drupal project from an external web agency and have been trying to becomer wiser on both Drupal and their approach of making a site. With time I've learnt a bit morer about Drupal, ...
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How to deal with management staff (company owner) that downplays the impact of specs changes? [closed]
I work in a small web development company (3 programmers) for a while. During the last year the company had hard times (less projects) and a few co-workers were fired, including our Production Manager....
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How to start a development project when there are too many potential stakeholders
I've just taken on a new job at a college as (the sole) Web application developer.
The college has a number of disparate but all pretty badly coded legacy systems. Mostly built in PHP they deal with ...
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Advice: Developing two projects where one is an extension of the other
The Two Projects
I work at a pretty small software company, and I'm currently in a situation where I'm at the end of development for "Project A", about to start development for "Project ...
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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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What should be the minimal design/scope documentation before development begins?
I am a junior developer working on my own in the programming aspect of projects.
I am given a png file with 5-6 of the pages designed, most times in specific detail. From this I'm asked to develop ...
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By what features and qualities are "free" and "premium" themes differentiated
I have a lot of time invested in creating Wordpress templates. I want to release combinations of these templates along with different styles and Fancy Front pages as "Premium Wordpress Themes". What I ...
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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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Reinvent the wheel or using the existing wheel? [closed]
I would like to ask something about project management. I got a project that has some requirements, it can be done from scratch with the use of a big framework. Maybe some tools are necessary for some ...