Questions tagged [project]

A project is a collaborative and planned activity for attaining a particular goal.

Please use the tag if you have a question revolving around the management of a project.

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Earning extra cash as a programmer

I work as fulltime programmer and have a pretty well paid job for the country where I live, but I could do with a bit of extra cash at the moment (wife nagging about new kitchen etc.). I'd be interested in taking on small projects in my spare time.…
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What makes a project big?

Just out of curiosity what's the difference between a small, medium and large size project? Is it measured by lines of code or complexity or what? Im building a bartering system and so far have about 1000 lines of code for login/registration. Even…
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How to start to gain experience of managing a project

There are some job requirements of project management experience for a programmer, such as: the candidate has to have some experience managing a project, not necessarily with subordinates, but rather having worked on a project all the way…
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Univeristy Projects and Uniqueness

I am in the process of trying to identify a suitable project for my final year at university. How important is it that the project be unique? I really want to do a project with the Kinect and am eagerly awaiting the official SDK. As yet I am…
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Demoing Project

I'm an undergraduate student studying computer science. I have been working at a company as a student researcher and next week I am to demo my complete project to my boss and the other developers. It is the most complex and largest program I have…
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Estimating Coding/Development efforts?

Possible Duplicate: How possible is it to estimate time for programming projects? We have designed a User Interface (UI) in HTML for an Intranet Application.it took almost 30 days to make it,how we should estimate the development effort(coding)…
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Do the Project managers build a structure of an app (with empty methods) then give it to the others for completing the app in real world Project?

I have very little experience working in a big project. But I did work about 3 months in a small outsourcer (a company that do the coding for a bigger foreigner web development company). This is what I saw. The foreigner company did all the user…
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Why would companies allow these practices?

Here's a situation that usually happens in some companies: Announce interesting product X. Promise a release date. Release on the promised released date, ready or not. Users discover and report defects. Send patch after patch after patch after patch…
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