Questions tagged [deadlines]
According to Wikipedia, a time limit or deadline is a narrow field of time, or particular point in time, by which an objective or task must be accomplished. In project management, deadlines are most often associated with milestone goals.
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Is "releases mutexes in reverse order" required to make this deadlock-prevention method work?
Operating System Concepts says 7.4.4 Circular Wait The fourth and final condition for deadlocks is the circular-wait condition. One way to ensure that this condition never holds is to impose a total ...
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Adding a new developer just before deadline is horrible. But what is not?
Imagine a project is assigned to a team, deadline is estimated as 8 months. After 6 months it becomes apparent the project will most certainly not be complete on time(e.g a law changes or a hidden ...
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Is there such thing as minimum testing required when building a software?
As far as I know, ideally testing should be done extensively as hard and far as possible, however sometimes (always) we are required to ship quickly. In case of a delayed or a over-deadline projects, ...
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Prevent deprecated code from compiling after reaching a deadline [closed]
In my team we have been cleaning a lot of old stuff in a big monolithic project (whole classes, methods, etc.). During that cleaning tasks I was wondering if there is a kind of annotation or library ...
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software disaster recovery when an engineer is suddenly unavailable
Recently in my company we had a project where the deadline was very tight, and everything was going according to plan until I was unavailable due to extreme personal issues. Eventually we missed the ...
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Is it reliable to use and download libraries needed from GitHub and copy-pasting codes in order to increase productivity? [duplicate]
I'm just wondering. Is it okay or true that some of the best programmers once taught that to become an effective programmer is through being a lazy programmer rather than spend time memorizing lots of ...
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Why are deadlines always so short? [duplicate]
I'm a junior developer in a small company (in a team of 2 developers). Everytime we are asked to implement a new feature: the deadline is set so that we just have time to do the development: there is ...
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How do you deal with being behind on a task? [closed]
I have a question for you guys. Say, you're given a task as an item in a product backlog. Say, you have a deliverable that's due the following day. If you're behind on the task compared to when you ...
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Project is nearly done, but procedural spaghetti code. Do I rewrite or just keep trying to ship it? [closed]
I'm a beginner web developer (one year of experience). A couple of weeks after graduating, I got offered a job to build a web application for a company whose owner is not much of a tech guy. He ...
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Estimated work remaining doesn't get lower [duplicate]
I'm working as a developer / architect on a software project. The project manager decided not to follow the Agile principles, but to rather have an Excel sheet with all the feature requests and their ...
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What should be the minimal quantity of code production per week? [duplicate]
I'll try to further explain what I mean. Imagine you are the boss of a company. You have to deal with the tradeoff between the quality of the code and the speed of producing it. Let's assume to ...
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In freelance software development, what kind of penalties should firms have when they miss deadlines? [closed]
I was talking with a co-developer. He has a client that wanted to make sure that he delivers on time. The client wants repercussions for missed deadlines. While I do not do freelance work, I couldn'...
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Are missed deadlines common in programming jobs? [closed]
It was my freelancer job at oDesk. I have done several jobs earlier in given time, but is was the first time I missed the deadline. It was a very lengthy job and I tried my best but I still missed the ...
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Increasing User Changes/Requirements in Agile Methodology
My question is quite simple. How to handle a situation where the team is applying agile methodology in software projects and there so many iterations and change in requirements, that the schedule is ...
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Obsessed with finding most elegant solution [duplicate]
I find that at times I get obsessed with finding the most elegant solution to a problem or task. I'll spend hours trawling the internet/texts for ideas and discussion on the right way to solve a ...
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