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Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, securing, and managing resources to achieve specific goals, as defined in the Wikipedia Article on Project Management.

Projects are, in general, temporary. Projects generally have a project owner, project manager, and a team. The project manager of the team is not a functional manager or direct supervisor of the team, but is instead a person responsible for the project schedule and the overall success of the project.

Many times, projects involve members of different functional skills or disciplines who are brought together temporarily to meet a common goal. Once the project is complete, the team may disband.

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Duplicate and rename Xcode project & associated folders

I would like to be able to duplicate an entire Xcode project, rename the project and the associated files without Xcode going mental, and without having to manually re-import all files to the project.
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I need this baby in a month - send me nine women!

Under what circumstances - if any - does adding programmers to a team actually speed development of an already late project?
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How do you maintain development code and production code?

What are the best practices and rules-of-thumb to follow while maintaining code? Is it good practice to have only the production ready code in the development branch, or should untested latest code be available in the development branch? How do you…
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How different is Scrum practice from Agile Practice?

Mostly people say Scrum and Agile interchangeably but what is the difference between Scrum Practice as compared to Agile Practice ?
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Project management to go with GitHub

(EDIT: This question is now outdated for my particular issue, as Google Code supports git now and I've converted Protocol Buffers to Mercurial anyway. However, it's still of general interest, IMO.) My C# Protocol Buffers Port uses github for its…
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How does Scrum work when you have multiple projects?

I'm fairly well read in the benefits and processes of Scrum. I get the ideas on the backlog, burndown charts, iterations, using user stories, and other various concepts of the Scrum "framework". With that said... I work for a web development firm…
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Redmine best practices

What tips and "standards" do you use in your Redmine project management process? Do you have a standard wiki insert template you could share or a standard way to work a project using bugs features tasks and support issues? Do you let issues and…
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How should I structure complex projects in C?

I have little more than beginner-level C skills and would like to know if there are any de facto "standards" to structure a somewhat complex application in C. Even GUI based ones. I have been always using the OO paradigm in Java and PHP and now that…
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Do you inflate your estimated project completion dates?

If so why? How much? I tend to inflate mine a little because I can be overly optimistic.
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What's a good way to organize projects with shared dependencies in Mercurial?

Currently, I'm moving from a legacy version control system and moving my group's project to mercurial. As one example of the kinds of code I'm moving, I have a 25+ project Visual Studio solution, containing several separate application areas that…
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Templates of Technical and Functional Specs

So basically I am looking for good templates for writing both technical and functional specs on a project or work request. What do you use? How deep do you get while writing the specs? Any additional general tips you could provide would be…
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Separate "include" and "src" folders for application-level code?

This questions concerns mostly Unix/Linux style C++ development. I see that many C++ libraries store their header files in a "include" folder and source files in an "src" folder. For the sake of conformance I adopted this in my own code. But it is…
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Free alternative to Atlassian Greenhopper/PivotalTracker?

I'm working with my brother on a website idea we have, and we'd like to use a tool to plan sprints and assign estimates to individual tickets. Atlassian's JIRA+Greenhopper looks fantastic but costs $20/month and at this stage we're just validating…
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Trac vs. Redmine

I'm working in research and my bioinformatics work group needs a project management software for keeping track of multiple projects (Linux environment). Originally, we planned for using TRAC but then I got aware of REDMINE. Moreover, I read in some…
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Giving estimates for large scale projects in an Agile Environment

My firm just got its first large-scale development project inquiry and I would like to use an Agile process. The client has a vision for the application but openly admits to having very few requirements and recognizes that we will have to charge by…
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