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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...