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What is the meaning of "Alpha Review" for any software project?
A very early version of a software product that may not contain all of the features that are planned for the final version. Typically, software goes through two stages of testing before it is considered finished. The first stage, called alpha testing, is often performed only by users within the organization developing the software. The second stage, called beta testing , generally involves a limited number of external users.
So to answer your question, it is a development status that usually means the first feature complete version of a program or application, that is most likely unstable, but is useful to show what the product will do to, usually, a selected group. Sometimes this stage is referred to as a preview version. Sometimes no more features are added after this release, but bug fixes continue. This release comes after a pre-alpha version and before a beta version.
IMHO, you can easily substitute review with testing.
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I am evaluating biicode in my organization.
I started this activity last year in september but did not continue because of other pressing concerns. I have resumed the same now.
It seems biicode has shut down their operations. None of their help links seem to be working. The login page as well as signup page are dead.
Is there anyone using biicode nowadays or is it dead?
Yes, biicode is closed. While you are evaluating options you can take a look to conan project and conan.io. It's an full open source project with a lot of community contributions right now.
Conan uses a more direct (and easier) approach to library dependencies management than biicode, supporting both binary packages as building from source.
Biicode as a company has shutdown. The central biicode servers have been closed, and will no longer operate. The current pages, blogs, etc, that can be seen are in fact static pages captured and hosted in github, thats why it is impossible to login/register. There are no support people (in fact no employees at all) since July 2015. If you still have interest, it is an OSS project (MIT), included the server, if you want to run biicode, you have to run your own server.
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Could anyone please suggest a software process suitable to the work our team?
We are a team of 6 developers (mostly juniors).
We are supporting the ordering system for an online book store (similar to Amazon books).
The system is already online and functioning.
Most of the work is task based. Sometimes there is a bug that needs immediate fixing or a new module that needs to be added to the system.
Most of the time each developer is working on a separate module of bug which it's estimated time could range from few hours to few days.
Our customers (the management department) are located in another country (we are being outsourced) so requirements take a long time to verify or discuss.
You can view us mainly as a team of freelancers each waiting for a task to be handed to him. Sometimes if a big module is required 2 or 3 developers start working together on it, but that's when things starts going bad as we lack a well defined software process to adhere too.
Notes:
The Waterfall model clearly fails in our case as our team is responsible for gathering the requirements, designing, coding and testing everything.
We tried adopting Agile practices, but it was a complete failure mainly because of points 4, 5 & 6. There is no iteration or prototypes in our work.
So We are looking for a software process that can help us organize our work and provide an acceptable output.
You say you're mainly Juniors. So, learn to walk before you try to run. I suggest you try a staged delivery model. And I also suggest you try reading this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Software-Project-Survival-Guide-Practices/dp/1572316217
I suggest using TFS Express, it's free and have Agile management tool, it's still beta, but Microsoft give a "Go Live" Tag so you can work with it and upgrade your work when RTM release
You can download it from here
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/11/en-us/downloads#tfs-express
I would Strongly Suggest RUP(Rational Unified Process)
Reason being
Concurrent Phases can go on with part of team doing some phase whereas other developers working on a different thing
You will follow RUP increments where some developer who finds solutions to bugs can move to next increment with a part of team still working on previous increment
its highly adaptive and flexible and will help you a lot with different threads going on within project
Previously it was Closed source although IBM donated it to Open source in 2005 and
here's a great presentation that will surely help you understand it better
http://www.perftestplus.com/resources/rupfordummies_ppt.pdf
Hope it helps!!
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HI
I'm moving a visual basic 6 application from one machine to another, however this application is quite old and uses a lot of third party components (.ocx files) that we have lost the license key for.
Is there any way to get the license key off the old machine for use on the new machine?
Once the application can be built on the new machine, the old machine will be decommissioned and all data erased.
I keep my VB6 dev kit in a VM image for this sort of reason - getting a working development state can be a hard-fought battle for VB6 stuff, but it also has the tendency to soil it's own house by filling it with left-over bits of dead COM components. So if I install new tools or components, I do it in the base snapshot, then restore any required bits into a new snapshot for that project.
Not really a helpful answer for your current predicament... but hopefully helpful for long-term legacy VB6 maintenance.
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We have different steps in our planning for online webprojects:
1) Information Architecture
Provides user stories
Provides wireframes
2) Design
Use Wireframes to develop a nice design
3) Development
4) Testing
I know that working agile asks for dedicated teams. But it is impossible to have a dedicted IA until the end of the project. Because the projects are small developers are working in different teams. How do you plan resources when you know 50 small projects and 20 new projects are using different resources?
And is there a useful tool that can assist in this?
The situation where an IA (or a UI designer or anyone else for that matter) could not be committed for the whole length of the project is quite common.
However with Agile the problem is easily resolved: commit a resource for the length of the iteration where he is needed. I.e. if you need an architect for a spike or for a particular user story make sure that she could work with your team for the length of that iteration when the user story will be implemented. Later on if you will need her again do the same thing.
If your iteration is too long for that approach try committing the resource for the length of a particular user story or a spike only.
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What is the best way to retire a currently active project? I've been working on this one for a while now and I think its time to let go. Without going into too much detail, there are other projects and technologies that are way ahead now and I don't see much value in investing in it any further.
What have you done to retire a project and what is the process like?
As operating systems, compilers, etc. change, it can be difficult to rebuild old projects.
Consider creating a virtual machine that is configured to build it again, in case you need to update it for some reason in the future. Archive that VM along with the source code, etc.
Personally, I've done this before, and put up on the homepage of the project
"I no longer wish to maintain this project - if you're interested in taking it over, then feel free to email me (email#address)"
And then let someone take it over.
Is this a personal, community, or commercial/professional project?
I have had a professional prject go sour due to lack of feedback form the client. Bascially they were going at a slower pace than they should have and it got to a point where the software would be more expensive to contine than to get a prebuilt alternative. In that case i just brought in the data to show the client where their saving are and recommend to abondon. Its hard to swallow, but after a while they realize it was for the best.