Questions tagged [management]
"The powers that be" is often a phrase used to describe those in a position of authority responsible for work. Distribution of resources would be a way to describe what managers do though resources include time, money and people.
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When team members are busy in fixing bugs what can/should their dev manager do?
We have a release cycle about three to four weeks for a new release then a bug fix sprint to make the product stable, then new features sprint to kick off another round of release cycle. What should I,...
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Separation of Concerns between test automation engineer and manual QA engineer? [closed]
I've been working as a test automation engineer for almost two years now. As expected, most of my job involves ensuring that the automation (primarily written in Python) is operational and reliable. ...
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How to initiate unit testing when you're the grunt?
I am the newest programmer on a very small team of 6 developers, 3 of which are offsite. By "newest" I mean both in years of experience (drastically) and familiarity with the code. I've been ...
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Banker's Algorithm for project management?
Is there an equivalent to Banker's Algorithm but for project management? For example you have several teams with different tasks and there is a deadlock, how do you resolve and prevent these ...
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Two types of problems? [closed]
According to my experience, there are two types of problems: For some problems I have been able to use some quick/dirty workarounds. Users are happy. Since the outcome quality has been acceptable for ...
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How do I prevent Scrum from turning great developers into average developers?
I found this also happened in my team although he may have exaggerated the situation a little bit. Scrum is a way to take a below average or poor developer and turn them into an average developer. It'...
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Making software defect correction "fun" [closed]
Where I work we occasionally come across really challenging defects, which require a great deal of technical expertise, skill and patience to resolve. Getting our most talented engineers to work on ...
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What are best ways to manage and keep track of services
We have an enterprise software introduced as SaaS model, and we end up with a huge number of services which are sometimes duplicated but no one knows, so what might be good practice ways to keep track ...
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