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What time tracking / time management software do you use?

I made a few searches for such a question and I did not discover any. So... have you tried implementing and actively using a software that is tracking employees time spent on different assignments? If so, could you please refer me to some useful…
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How to approach convincing employers to invest in software

I am relatively new to my current job, but I have a lot of ideas of how to improve the current working environment in terms of productivity, software quality and performance. I aim to be having a meeting with the bosses of this small company, in…
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Where should employee training fall into the project life cycle?

Where should employee training/reinforcement of new skills and techniques fall into the project life cycle? Is anyone able to find any studies conducted about how the end product is affected resulted if training is done on the production code…
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Are Agile Project Deliverables Generally Tied To Stage Payments?

Do software developers operating under some sort of agile development cycle and presenting a series of 'deliverables' to their customer generally expect—or contract—their clients to make a stage payment per acceptable deliverable? I ask as many…
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What to do If client set the deadline for tasks in software development?

What to do if the client which you work for gives you tasks as well as deadline for those tasks, without compromising on time and budget? Even though you know that the tasks can not be completed within required time, how would a manager/software…
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What is good PM software for an iterative system development approach?

We aren't necessarily using Agile, but we aren't using the Waterfall approach either; it's more of a hybrid of both. I was told that Microsoft Project is great for the Waterfall method, but it's not really good to plan out iterative projects. Are…
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software development through collaboration of waterfall and agile methods

How can waterfall method and agile method be used in a single project?
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Easiest online team collaboration tool

I would need an online team collaboration (project management) tool very easy to use. I don't need a lot of features, just these ones: assign tasks to team members comment on tasks give time estimation to tasks mark tasks as done categorise tasks…
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Running training session for a software product

I am running a training session for external users of our software product soon, and am currently planning how to approach it. I have a good idea how to run through the specifics of our platform (sustainability data management and analysis), but how…
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Any information on traditional company structures and variations?

Now that I'm working at higher levels within companies, I come across different groups and people with high-level responsibilities - bodies responsible for funding decisions, governance, CEOs, CIOs, Heads of IT, programme managers, department heads,…
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How can I prevent this software outsourcing project from failing?

This is a bit long, but I think it's important I give all the details. I am an intermediate Software Engineer at my company who has been tasked with outsourcing a software development project. It's a web portal to display data/charts, notify users…
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Is it unrealistic to develop a software project and get reliability not just by what you see on screen?

In the software industry, not in all cases but true for many, you usually report to a manager who has no advanced knowledge about the underlying technology used in a software project. Usually this drives managers to value your work based on what…
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Project Management technique for my pet project

I have a little/mid-size software project idea which I am currently planning to do on my own. Or there may be maximum 1-2 other developers joining. Does it worth to apply any of the project management techniques? If yes, which one? So far I have…
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Team consistently not making sprints

So I know that this question has been asked before, but since I haven't really seen anything that benefited my problem, I thought I would give it a chance. So first things first, in a perfect world we would be completing sprints and at the end of…
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Book recommendations on software detail design

I've recently worked on improving our development processes by working through McConnells "Rapid Development" and "Software Project Survival Guide". One area of weakness I've identified here is software design - we either skip it completely or only…
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