Questions tagged [time-management]
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How to optimize the request time for large data response?
I have created a dashboard for rendering a list of clients into a DataTable. Below shown is the data model structure: When I had a few records in the clients schema, let's say a thousand rows, the ...
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In which order perform tasks from big backlog
I have a big backlog of tasks gathered during last years. And new tasks are added occasionally. All tasks have the same priority and tasks never expire over time. I was thinking of the reasonable way ...
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Percentage of time of an evaluation used to perform the evaluation [closed]
I often need to evaluate the time required to do software modifications and include this time in the evaluation. What is the average percentage of the time evaluated that should be used to perform ...
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Cumulative sum of overlapping increase/decrease over time
I am looking for an efficient way to handle a calculation. I have lots of timestamped events, representing loading and unloading of trucks. I need to construct the filling rate of these trucks over ...
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How can we measure time spend on different activities on the project? (not tasks!)
For the simplification, I am talking here only about the time, invested into the project starting from the task being defined for developers and functionality being passed to testers. AFAIK, the ...
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(System) Hooks for embedded libraries
With the inability to go into to much detail, imagine the following situation: You are developing a library that needs to run on various embedded platforms (AVR, ARM, etc..). Some functionality of ...
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How do you set a reasonable time-limit on some exploratory mission?
Given some legacy module in a ten year old project, where you have seen none of the code and not used the application, how long will it take you to grok 10000 lines of code from that module? The ...
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Time estimation samples in big companies [closed]
I need some real time estimation samples from big companies like google, facebook and apple etc. I need the task description, time estimation for task, team members count and after all, the real time ...
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Is there marginal benefit in fixing bugs [closed]
I have heard from a former colleague that not all bugs need to be fixed, because as you go down the priority list of bugs, the use case which causes that bug becomes more obscure, or the customer ...
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How do I feel more productive after programming? [closed]
I really enjoy the actual programming part of programming, and actually writing the code, and figuring it out. But on this project I've been working on, most of my time has been spent on kind stupid ...
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What to do when critical functionality of a dependency is broken and impedes development?
Yesterday I was working on a Rails 5 API project which is using the acts-as-taggable-on library to allow things to have tags (like questions on SE). Rails 5 is in alpha support right now. There is ...
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Frustrating on time tracking
Our agile sprint lasts three weeks. Say 40*3 = 120 hours. Our boss requires us must to log at least 8 hours every day. We use JIRA to record time. However my current story in the sprint estimated time ...
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API design dilemma: to REST or not to REST
I'd like to design a REST API supporting: Login Temporary token generation The reason being there are a number of client-side REST libraries that would speed up development if used, as they take care ...
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Divide time available by task type [closed]
We’re a team of a few programmers working on different projects, enhancing current features adding new features and of course fixing bugs as they come to our attention. Problem is that we need a way ...
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How much detail to put into first iteration of project?
I have just started a new personal project (Python), and am writing what amounts to a "rough draft" of the program, the minimum required to do what I want to do. I am not yet putting in extensive ...
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