Planning research software: management plans and technology choice
Strategy & ManagementOperationsOpen accessPublished 3 Oct 2026
Covers planning research software work: writing and maintaining a Software Management Plan (SMP), and choosing programming languages, tools, and infrastructures for a project. Use when the user wants to write or review an SMP, plan how software will be developed, maintained, shared, and preserved, needs the software sections of a proposal or funder template, wants to decide which language or framework to start a project in (Python, C++, R, Julia, Rust, Fortran, JavaScript), pick a project template or boilerplate, or weigh reuse, sustainability, and funder requirements at the start of a project. (Data management plans, maDMPs, DS-Wizard and DMPonline are rseng-data-managem…
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