Item: GitHub
Rating: 9
Author: Tom Thomas

Overall Satisfaction with GitHub

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have been using GitHub for the past few years as a place to collaborate and work on complex projects that involve more than one person. It provides powerful tools to manage projects with granular control over Git's version control system. It also helps as a platform to advertise our work to possible clients.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Great collaboration tools
Excellent version control support
Detailed contribution analytics

Cons

Limited private repositories for free users
Better and more mobile presence

Return on Investment

Improved stability and reliability of project deliverables
Reduced redundancy of code
Reduced down time when project needed to be rolled back due to road blocks

Other Software Used

Eclipse Luna, NetBeans, Oracle WebLogic Application Server

Likelihood to Recommend

GitHub is well suited to those working in teams, especially at a software company or in a software development context. Every person working on the project can can contribute equally, separate from the main project branch, enabling excellent stability of the project, in case something goes wrong with someone's work. If you are more interested in a project planning platform, you should look elsewhere.

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