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New machine. Love it.
Constant barrage of Windows updates. Leave me the elephant alone!!!
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Which windows version?
CPallini wrote: You cannot argue with agile people so just take the extreme approach and shoot him.
:Smile:
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98
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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7.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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At least you know when you are done, it won't be windows 8  .
CPallini wrote: You cannot argue with agile people so just take the extreme approach and shoot him.
:Smile:
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Those updates are for your protection citizen.
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It's not the total number of patches that burns me up, it's the number of reboot cycles triggered by dependencies combined with having to download a large number of patches (and often multiple reboot cycles) before Windows Update will even offer a Service Pack for installation.
(Yeah I know I could probably bypass the SP thing by downloading and manually running the SPs offline installer; but that has a much larger effort requirement than just mashing the Check for Patches Now and Reboot Now buttons repeatedly.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Hello All,
What project management software/tool are you using to manage tasks, deadlines, errors, communication with team etc.
I started a web development company last year and initially we had only 2-3 projects. So it was easy to manage. But now projects are increasing and so is the team and I think it's not efficient to communicate via email (other than face to face meetings). Now I am looking for a proper project management solution where I can assign team and monitor progress, deadlines etc.
Any recommendations?
Thanks
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I didn't know we have that tool available to us; very cool!! 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Depends on how many emplyees you have.
I would recommand Fogbugz to start with.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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We are standardising on JIRA with the Greenhopper agile plugin. This is more of a development perspective tool but it certainly does well to store tasks, known bugs and things that need doing, and I believe some people put PM type information in there as well as the more well defined developer stories. If you set up your 'sprints' appropriately for any agile task board it will give you good monitoring of progress and impending deadlines.
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We used OnTime a my last job. Management liked it, devs hated it. We use JIRA at my current job, I'm not impressed but its less annoying than OnTime. I use BugNET at home, its all free and stuff.
CPallini wrote: You cannot argue with agile people so just take the extreme approach and shoot him.
:Smile:
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AndyInUK wrote: Any recommendations?
Hi Andy,
(Shameless plug...)
Please take a look at the link in my signature. And let me know if you have any questions.
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Try this[^] Note that the tool for holding the incentive is remarkably similar to this tool[^] which means that it can be used in an alternative mode for motivating assignees to expedite tasks. Quite versatile.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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We're trying out Youtrack[^]
Free if you have a small team (<10)
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I use Workspaces[^] for my pet projects, works like a charm. Have a look at Springlog[^] to see one which I recently ported over to Workspaces.
The scariest moment is always just before the Start - Stephen King
Die Frauen warten auf die Liebe, und die Männer warten auf die Frauen - Wolf Wondratschek
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Project manager is a tool. A nutjob, a blabber, a clueless, excel/mpp freak, douchebag sometimes.
On a serious note, if you work with .Net, TFS it is. No matter how much people say it is bad, I personally never struggled with it. You can also try project server (which I think is crap) if your budget allows.
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We're using Excel™ at my job. 
I'm lobbying for Fogbugz.
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Yeah, I'm fighting this battle myself.
Mgr. wants me to use the ticketing system for project planning. I told her that would take half a day a week at least just to keep updated.
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I just started using Asana. It looks good so far.
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There are two issues
1) Project Management
2) Work Management
A dedicated project manager or project management keeps the project on track but is distinctly different from the minutia of what is required to make an individual software project successful.
Weird, right? Break the two tasks apart and you may find the solution a little bit easier. And as a bonus it will scale much better to having 10 consecutive projects and 50 employees.
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Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote: A dedicated project manager or project management keeps the project on track but is distinctly different from the minutia of what is required to make an individual software project successful.
Yep. I refer to them as "Project Management" and "Task Management"
The latter would be the management of individual development processes necessary to complete specified features (and associated) for a product. This is the 'internal' management of the project which a project manager and development team uses.
The former represents determining what products are delivered to customers, allowing for budgeting, resource management, etc. This is what sales, and higher management uses. It is the 'external' view.
The Task Management is an input into the Project Management. And the Project Management drives creation of Task Management projects and decisions made based on Project Management would impact how Task Management might proceed.
Project Management is where one starts for high level estimates for a product delivery date. Task Management is where one tracks how tasks are proceeding (and at some point this feeds back into the Project Management to fine tune estimates.)
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I once used something called PSP(Personal Software Process). Essentially you got a week or two of training, then a certification, and then you were supposed to feed every bit of code you wrote into a statistical analysis, so that you could estimate everything when the managers asked.
Invidious performance monitor. Navel gazing waste of time. The management loved it. The 'church of PSP' expected us to go out into the world with our personal databases and spread the good news while giving uncannily accurate performance forecasts.
When an old girlfriend I met for lunch couldn't understand what the hell it had to do with being a software engineer, I saw the light. 
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