Answer to Question #309125 in Marketing for Gyven

Question

Describe the range of tools available to support the programming

development process for a team of programmers who work on

collaborative projects

Answer 1

 4GLs, data flow diagrams, data dictionaries and system flowcharts are the most familiar and widely used system development tools. CASE tools are used by all respondents especially for the analysis and design, implementation and project management activities.

Tools to make remote collaboration with your team a breeze;

When it comes to the management of remote teams, it’s not only the tools but also how you use these project management tools. For example, if you take Task Management alone you can already name 10 different remote working tools but only for one specific task.

Communication Management – Slack is the first communication tool that comes to mind for instant messaging between distributed teams, especially in software development. It is not only a fast chat room but also has many options for creating different channels for projects.

Slack can also be integrated with a variety of other project management tools and essential applications like Dropbox and Google Drive. Dropbox and Google Drive are some of the most popular workspaces for storage and file sharing.

Task Management is another important aspect of cooperative work. There are a number of task management tools out there: Jira, Asana, Trello (for smaller projects).

If you use Kanban methodology in your remote work, Trello will work perfectly. The main thing is to focus on the needs of the team.

Code Management is something that Non-Technical clients often forget about, but it is critical to the success of any product. The main developer collaboration tools for this purpose are GitLab and Bitbucket. You can add all of your developers, see all their comments, create all the code branches, and then merge them together into sprint releases.

Project Wikis. It is important to keep all your use cases, test cases, etc. in the same place to ensure everything is connected, considered, and up to date. The main tool for this purpose is Atlassian’s Confluence, which by the way, also works perfectly with Jira or Bitbucket, which we use in our company. This combination of tools effectively acts as a code hosting and collaborative remote development platform.