More than ever, developers must work as a team to achieve business goals. Here are three types of collaboration tools to help developers work with ease.
No software project gets very far without the means to plan, communicate and track work. Developer collaboration tools must provide ways to track and assign tasks, work together on software, report progress and share code among team members. Otherwise, you have a bunch of developers, not a development team.
Key categories of developer collaboration tools include: project management, communication and code collaboration tooling.
Let's explore each tool category to understand how developers collaborate.
Project management software tools
Notable examples of project management software tools include:
Jira from Atlassian
Trello from Atlassian
Asana
Airtable
Smartsheet
Monday.com
Developers on a project team must track and manage work. Work can include tasks as well as issues to resolve. Project management tools should give developers a system to organize work itself: what work is completed, what tasks are behind and where task dependencies exist. This type of developer collaboration tool can also visualize information about the work a development team needs to do, via diagrams like Gantt, PERT and burn down charts.
The following project management tools address these needs and offer basic functionalities, such as privacy settings and team member tagging.
Developer communication tools
The list of communication tools a development team could use includes:
Slack
Microsoft Teams
Google Meet
Zoom
Constant emailing back-and-forth is a disorganized and inefficient way for team members to communicate. With the proliferation of remote and globally distributed work, it's not often feasible to walk over to a co-worker's desk or schedule an in-person meeting. Developers need capable and user-friendly communication tools.
Version control and code sharing tools
Developers can choose from code collaboration or version control tools, such as:
GitHub from Microsoft
GitLab
Bitbucket from Atlassian
To do programming on a group project, developers need a place to store code and juggle contributions to a single codebase coming from multiple people. A version control system enables developers to perform various actions, including check out code, fork a repository, create a branch, merge code changes and pull others' changes. Additionally, a version control tool keeps a history of the changes made to a codebase.
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