What kind of programs/solutions can only be written with OOP or are too hard to achieve without it? [closed]
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Advice for Setting up an On-Call Team
I’m leading a largish development team (~35 developers). We are doing primarily Web Development work on a number of sites.
Statistical Software Quality Control References
I’m looking for references about hypothesis testing in software management. For example, we might wonder whether “crunch time” leads to an increase in defect rate – this is a surprisingly difficult thing to do.
How to tell whether your programmers are under-performing? [closed]
Closed. This question is opinion-based. It is not currently accepting answers. Closed 9 years ago. Locked. This question and its answers are locked because the question is off-topic but has historical significance. It is not currently accepting new answers or interactions. I am a team lead with 5+ developers. I have a developer (let’s call […]
How do you balance between “do it right” and “do it ASAP” in your daily work? [closed]
Closed 9 years ago.
Creating an in-house single source software development team
Our company wants to create a single department for all software development efforts (rather than having software development managed by each business unit). Business units would then “outsource” their software needs to this department. What would you setup as concerns/expectations that must be cleared before doing this? For example:
“A good programmer can be as 10X times more productive than a mediocre one” [closed]
Closed. This question is opinion-based. It is not currently accepting answers. Closed 9 years ago. Locked. This question and its answers are locked because the question is off-topic but has historical significance. It is not currently accepting new answers or interactions. I had read an interview with a great programmer (it is not in English) […]
what is the best way to ensure accountability in code checkins?
Note: after writing this I realize that this question is perhaps philosophical, but I’m interested in how the industry handles this scenario regardless.
How to properly deal with ER and UML diagram management
When learning about these tools, I (naively) thought that mapping about the business space could be front loaded by doing it only once and refering to those diagrams for each project within a single business unit. However, I am finding that each situation is calling for it’s own set of diagrams to properly communicate what’s going on. I find that I am dealing with the same objects, but the relationships change.
How to write “SMART” Objectives as an agile developer?
Like many corporations the company I work for is transitioning to a performance review system based on SMART objectives. My team is a high functioning agile development team employing practices from Extreme Programming. To our great benefit our employment of agile practices has the full support of immediate and upper management.