I'm a newbie programmer in a troubling situation and wondered if anyone knew best practices for dealing with this type of project management problem. After a rough job-search, I finally found a contract job to port an arcane system from an old OS to a new one. I was up front about having little...

Mark Phillips dusted off his editing gloves and attacked the question referenced here in this meta discussion and made great progress on the constructiveness issue. We also reopened the question. Here it is: How to Adapt to a New Team Culture? Where PMSE Begins and Ends? However, as both a mo...

The following question was asked on PMSE: Would you give developer(s) bounty/bonus for his/her result? On the surface, the question title may appear on-topic, but after reading this well-written, detailed question, I noticed it was asked from the perspective of a developer and that it didn't se...