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How to structure the project documentation?
I just started our bachelor thesis, and want to ask you how to make a proper documentation. There are two pieces of software in our project's scope: a microcontroller software (node), and a server ...
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When is documentation, unit testing, QA and refactoring meant to be done in a 2 week agile sprint?
The team I am working on is trying to do agile development with 2 week sprints. I think we must be doing something wrong however, as we have to work like madmen to get the features implemented in the ...
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Agile Scrum - Importance of requirement gathering and documentation and suggestions to improve
We are using agile scrum methodologies for developing and maintaining a product. Since we are a product company, we do not work with customer directly on day to day basis, but instead communicate with ...
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As an lone, Agile (PXP/PSP) developer what is the proper structure for a formal project post-mortem? [closed]
Question: As an lone, Agile (PXP/PSP) developer what is the proper structure for a formal project post-mortem? Scenario I'm using a PXP methodology (which is a blend of extreme programming and the ...
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How do you validate need for documentation?
I once was on a project where a non-tech manager had the team spending half of every hour documenting what they just did so that someone with zero understanding of the tech would be able to understand ...
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Design documents as part of Agile
At my workplace, we face a challenge in that "agile" too often has meant "vague requirements, bad acceptance criteria, good luck!" We're trying to address that, as a general improvement effort. So, ...
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Extreme Programming - documenting implementation?
In extreme programming methodology, what artifacts/ can be used to document the implementation? I have used an activity diagram to document the design steps for each activity. I have read that for XP,...
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Documentation degrading - how to deal with it?
Important: we have no issues whatsoever with source code documentation. This belongs to regular code audit and is kept up to date. Our problem is with developers documentation (or, "external" if you ...
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How to properly document functionality in an agile project?
So recently, we've just finished the first phase of our project. We used agile with fortnightly sprints. And whilst the application turned out well, we're now turning our eyes on some of the ...
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How to use unit tests as a source of information?
A colleague of mine was once at a seminar about agile development, where he heard it is possible to use unit tests as technical documentation. Something like using unit tests as an example of how to ...
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How can Scrum be adapted to an academic environment?
I'm currently working with a professor at my university to develop new curricula for the Software Engineering and Capstone Design courses offered in my college. Up until recently, both courses used ...
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How to change documentation expectations from "risk management" to a "project risk"
We are trying to introduce some agile concepts to the business folks but one of our biggest hurdles is their expectations for documentation - the quantity, the authorship/ownership of the documents, ...
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How do you track existing requirements over time?
I'm a software engineer working on a complex, ongoing website. It has a lot of moving parts and a small team of UI designers and business folks adding new features and tweaking old ones. Over the last ...
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Is it a good idea to write requirements specifications by stories?
We're using agile methods in my current project at the moment, and we have heaps of stories like these: As an assistant, I want to pay a customer a refund so that they can get some money when they ...
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Are High Level Design and Low Level Design documents needed to follow Agile development process?
Our team is developing a project using an Agile development process. All of our requirements are converted into product backlog items and task are broken down based on that. One of my team member ...
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