Questions tagged [planning]
Planning is the process of thinking about and organizing the activities required to achieve a desired goal.
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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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How much time should you spend planning a commit before writing code?
At the moment I'm spending more time planning out a commit than actually writing code when adding a new feature. Less than two hours would be lucky, and sometimes I'd spend a good part of the day ...
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term for errors which occur when running code with new data, when older data was used to develop/test the code [closed]
I'm writing code to clean and process a large number of transcript text files. My code will be re-used in the future to process additional files which do not yet exist. Future files will take on the ...
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How can you decide how much detail is it worth going in to when planning a new feature?
I'm a recovering perfectionist. According to my colleagues, I am also a good software engineer, but one of the feedback I have often received is that I tend to dive too deep too soon. Suppose I start ...
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How to handle similar/re-usable work when estimating story points?
In our Jira board we might have 5 tickets for different API endpoints - for example: ListArticle GetArticle CreateArticle DeleteArticle When we create these new endpoints, there is some initial work ...
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Agile approach in ETL/ELT development
What are the pros and cons of using agile/iterative approach in ETL/ELT (Extract Transform Load or Extract Load Transform) data warehouses/data lakes/lakehouses systems development? I often find that ...
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Productivity - Pushing towards 3 (at max 4) completed requests followed by code commits in a span of 8 hour interval on novel support requests
Situation Right now, I am at a point of realization, that at my present position I am not completing requests with regular interval, have spaced out request completion. But to approach my true ...
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Difference between a Software Requirement, a Feature and an Objective
I'm working on my first ever software project. Being the only one working on it, I'm making the work breakdown structure and I know requirement gathering is an important phase in the development ...
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How much technical detail should we talk in Sprint Planning 2
I'm working in a Scrum team, We have Sprint Planning 2 to breakdown backlog into technical tasks. The team is pretty big around 12 developers, We can't split cause it's not under our control. We ...
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Convincing "agile" product managers of the value of planning
Became tech lead of a startup a few months ago. Software development is under Product in the org chart. Even by startup standards the codebase I've inherited is poor. Example: the dev team took three ...
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Operational planning for web app (backend)
I know the question is a bit broad, but will give it a try. I newly joined a backend team in our company that is about to release an app to external users, I noticed we don't have an operational plan,...
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Planning a sprint when you don't know the next tasks
How should sprint tasks be planned when you won't know the next task to be done until the current task is complete? For instance, consider the case of optimizing a program's performance. Until you fix ...
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Not planned work emerges during the sprint from management?
I believe that most of us have encountered this situation. What is the best approach when higher management or client is forcing the PO to include some new functionality in the middle of the sprint, ...
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Agile process, assigning estimated tasks to people in a Sprint
Today I was surprised to hear that our Scrum Master and Product Owner decided that they wanted us to consider a change to how Sprint Planning was done. The change essentially is that all of the ...
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How to deal with sprint planning running far too long?
I took over 5 hours in sprint planning for a week long sprint. That seems like too much. We discuss things in detail in sprint planning, as most of team members are not senior. If we don't it will ...
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