Software development process for small teams [closed]

Question

I might be an exception here but I have never worked on a team with more than three developers and / or five people. Still we could manage to get the job done (somehow).

Is there a software development process which fits this "extreme" scenario? And, if you work as a standalone programmer is there something you can adapt to your daily life to make it more predicatable, coherent, documented and still get the job done?

Answer 1

The agile methodologies are a good starting point because, imho, they are better suited for small groups.

As for keeping your personal working pace I'd recommend a method based on TODO lists and some tool like Task2Gather. You might want to look at GTD, too.

Things I would never give up even for a team of me:

• source version control
• backups
• TODO
• unit testing/TDD
• code documentation
• refactoring/code reviews

Answer 2

Let the mighty SecretGeeek teach you how to be a standalone programmer. Enjoy :)

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