Effective Collaboration

Slides for a talk given during the Aakash Lab Guidance Talk at IIT Mandi.

Transcript

1. Effective Collaboration Team structure, Documentation, Version Control, MVP
2. Team Structure Sma! teams are good because of magnified accountability. However, a team leader is sti! needed to facilitate communication. We do not officia!y require that you select a team leader, but strongly recommend doing so on your end. You may consider rotating team leaders among everyone.
3. Sharing Documents Sharing and co!aborating on documents is a solved problem. Just use Google Drive or Dropbox and stop wasting time.
4. Version Control
6. Benefits of Version Control Automatic merges. Ability to revert. History. Automatic backups.
7. Git Git is a distributed version control system. Used by the Linux Kernel, Ruby on Rails, Android, Eclipse and PostgreSQL to name a few. Github is an awesome website for hosting Git repositories.
8. Learning Git http://try.github.com/ Mastering Git Basics, a talk by Tom Preston-Werner (available on http://students.iitmandi.ac.in/) Peepcode Screencast
9. Minimum Viable Product
10. Thank you! Vikhyat Korrapati http://vikhyat.net/