One of the programmers on our team is leaving for greener pastures. We will be going from 6 to 5. What steps should we take to ensure our development process continues to run smoothly, potent...

We have a large enterprise application where projects are scoped designed and finally coded using a formalized waterfall process. I am often given code changes for non related initiatives jus...

today in the university we had a Scrum practicing exercise (simulating the whole process of creating a software solution) and I came up with an issue that couldn't quite understand. Let's sa...

Should technical items such as "Upgrade sever from v1 to v2" or "Increase startup performance" or "Refactor login module to reduce code complexity" go in to the product backlog and if so how ...

Being relatively new to the software industry I have come across a question of deadline enforcement: Back in the idyllic age of academia, the deadline was the end of the semester and the pe...

I'm with a pretty small startup and we started using a form of a Scrum/Agile development cycle. In many ways I enjoy Scrum. We have relatively short sprints (2 weeks) and I like the Burn Do...

You must have heard the archetypical story of a failing/failed project: A team of inexperienced programmers work 24x7 Bugs are fixed only to introduce new bugs Customer is screaming that he...

I've used a Continuous Integration server in the past with great success, and hadn't had the need to ever perform a code freeze on the source control system. However, lately it seems that everywh...

A beginner question, bear with me: I'm just wondering under what circumstances one should use a build tool like nant or msbuild? I'm working on a medium sized application (.net 3.0), every develope...

I know there are things like doing manual check to make sure the codes committed is fundamentally correct. But beside that? Reason i asking is because a big project there are so many commits everyd...