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Time management is the act or process of planning and exercising conscious control over the amount of time spent on specific activities, especially to increase effectiveness, efficiency or productivity.

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Becoming the most efficient one-man team

Like many here, I am a one-man development team. I'm responsible for everything from gathering project requirements, designing concept-screens, planning and developing databases, and writing all code. Being a one-man team is nice, but has its…
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What's the best way to synchronize times to millisecond accuracy AND precision between machines?

From what I understand, the crystals on PC's are notorious for clock skew. If clocks are always skewing, what is the best way to synchronize clocks between machines with millisecond accuracy and precision? From what I've found, NTP and PTP are…
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How to Deal with chronic time issues?

I have a developer on my staff that chronically overshoots deadlines, and estimates. On several projects the last week or two everyday I hear "It should be done by the end of the day". This developer does good work. I have already spoke to him about…
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How much of your work day is spent coding?

I've been thinking about software estimation lately, and I have a bunch of questions around time spent coding. I'm curious to hear from people who have had at least a couple years of experience developing software. When you have to estimate the…
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What are the biggest time wasters for learning programming?

I've had several false starts in the past with teaching myself how to program. I've worked through several books (mostly C and Python), and end up just learning the syntax without feeling as though I could sit down and actually write a program for…
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What is a good project management software for many small projects?

I work at a smallish web agency (3 programmers, 2 project managers), we mostly make sites for marketing campaigns and also some larger sites. Most of our projects are a week, maybe two, in development. The majority of projects are only worked on by…
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Do you have "Slack" time?

The CodePlex team has a Slack time policy, and it's worked out very well for them. Jim Newkirk and myself used it to work on the xUnit.net project. Jonathan Wanagel used it to work on SvnBridge. Scott Densmore and myself used it to work on an…
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Calculating Project Programming Times

As a lead developer I often get handed specifications for a new project, and get asked how long it'll take to complete the programming side of the work involved, in terms of hours. I was just wondering how other developers calculate these times…
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How do you find time for improving your programming skills?

I'm a Java/J2ee programmer working in India. I'm very passionate about programming and I constantly strive to hone my programming skills by reading blogs, solving Project euler questions, learning new technologies, developing small apps etc;. But I…
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Time management tricks, tools & tips

Working with software day-to-day usually means you have to juggle project work, meetings, calls and other interrupts. What single technique, trick, or tool do you find most useful in managing your time? How do you stay focused? What is your single…
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Tips for programming in 5 min segments?

I have a laptop and bunch of 5 min segments throughout my day. I used to think this was simply too short a time to do 'anything'. Though with a little practice and a few minor behavioral changes (like unplugging) I have realized that I can get…
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What learning habits can you suggest?

Our profession often requires deep learning; sitting down and reading, and understanding. I'm currently undergoing an exam period, and I'm looking for ways to learn more effectively. I'm not asking about what to learn, or whether to prefer blogs…
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Does anyone have recommendations for a good task/time management tool?

Does anyone have recommendations for a good task/time management tool. Ideally this would just keep track of programming tasks / the project and the time spent also the option to produce an end of week report would be advantageous
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Does the 80/20 rule of time management apply to developers?

Jeff's recent article linked to a time management example of the First Fit Decreasing algorithm, which talked about the Pareto principle (or, the 80/20 rule) of time management, that is, that 80% of the work we produce in 20% of our time. Now we've…
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How would you store and query hours of operation?

We're building an app that stores "hours of operation" for various businesses. What is the easiest way to represent this data so you can easily check if an item is open? Some options: Segment out blocks (every 15 minutes) that you can mark…
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