checklists for different stages of projects

[sbailey]

Turning a private email discussion with @gvwilson into a public issue for followup:

Consider organizing the Managing Research Software Projects curriculum into time phases of the project: starting, mid-stream, and finishing/maintenance, with summary checklists of the issues to consider at each stage. e.g. starting a new project:

• choose version control system and hosting
• choose license
• choose primary communication method (email, slack, tickets...)
• choose programming language(s) and key technologies
• document coding standards
• setup template repo(s) with placeholder docs, code, unit tests, README, install methodology
• (I'm more fuzzy about requirements gathering, a&e, etc. at start of project; that was a very useful section but I'm still digesting it...)
• ...

And a similar checklist for how to keep a mid-stream project on track and how to wrap up a project into "done" (or at least maintenance mode).