Reading material

Software Management Plans

Software Management Plans – Current Concepts, Tools, and Application provides a good overview of SMPs

Software Management Plan Tool

Guided questionnaire to create your own SMP: smp.research.software

Zenodo

Read in Zenodo about Practical guide to Software Management Plans

Software Sustainability Institute

Read in SSI Resources Hub about Writing and using a software management plan

The Turing Way

Read The Turing Way chapter on Software Management Plans

Overview of practical guides

There are various practical guides online to the different aspects of software management.

Here is an (incomplete) list:

• Version control
• Testing
• Packaging
• Documentation
  • User
  • Deployment
  • Developer
• Citation
• Software licensing and compatibility
• Software Management Plan (SMP) Decision Tree!