Software engineering for data scientists – Part 3, No Man Is an Island

As we've seen in our previous posts, developing software is not only about writing code. You have to use quality tools to write human and machine readable and maintainable code and you have to automate your workflow while following industry best practices (i.e. using git, doing unit tests, and etc.) We can't emphasize enough that software development is team work, and there are development methodologies which help you to manage the complexity of a project and also these methodologies help you to coordinate you and your co-workers' effort to make a good software. Following various software development methodologies is very similar to ideological fundamentalism. As Heraclitus said, you cannot step into the same river twice. Also, you cannot do the same project twice, so you cannot face the challenges coming up during a project twice.