Software development harmonization and improvement

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We have three main software development groups within ASTRON: Research&Development, Radio Observatory and Science Data Centre. Earlier this year an initiative was started by the ASTRON management under guidance of Gert Kruithof to harmonize and improve the development processes across these groups. Various topics have been identified and currently the group is working in regular meetings to handle these topics one by one. Topics include Documentation, Coding Standards, Code Review process, Tools like issue tracking, Handover from R&D project to operational development and maintenance, etc... The effort is currently being led by Ronald Nijboer and Jasper Annyas. These are images of our first meeting where we used sticky notes to identify and group topics.