Identifying the Challenges of Team Development
Professional software products are often created by more than one programmer. As more and more developers become involved in a project, managing the work performed by all the developers becomes exponentially more difficult. A team-developed project can quickly become a multiheaded beast, ready to strike at any time. Some of the challenges inherent with team development are
Making sure that multiple developers aren’t modifying the same code and objects at the same time
Preventing developers from overwriting the work of others
Tracking versions of the software
Centralizing project files
When two developers modify the same code at the same time, someone’s going to lose. Generally, it’s the first programmer ...
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