Project Management and Version Control

In this chapter, we'll take a detour away from the Dead Keys project specifically, and into related development fields, such as project management and version control. These are critically important for organizing your work and ensuring that a development is focused and completed as per the schedule and with the intended quality. You might think these practices are unnecessary for people working alone or in very small teams, but this is not true. Teams of all sizes, from one person to hundreds, need some degree of project management skills, and version control is a technology (alongside others) that can really help. Generally speaking, project management is about understanding the project design, aspirations, and required workload, and then creating a schedule to support that workload, distributing tasks to qualified people, at the right...