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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

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Most of the other processs changes - mandatory design reviews (prelimninary, critical, etc), - documenting all our procedures, and so on - were to support those two factors. A project usually has an absolute duration and budget whereas the time and money dedicated to development within the project is where the tradeoffs are made.

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How To Create a Web App

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These serve to ensure that everyone who ends up on the development team knows what the system is for. More than one person can review it, but only one person can author. My experience says that if the development team relies on mockups and documents created by customers then the team and the project are in a real trouble.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

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They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews. The translator rejects or approves.