CLOUD SERVICES FOR COLLECTIVE PROJECTS PREPARATION PROCESSES OF FUTURE IT-PROFESSIONALS: ANALYSIS AND SELECTION CRITERIA

Abstract

The criteria for selecting cloud services for project management (ability to form groups, assign tasks to team members, prioritize tasks, communicate between team members, organize video calls, organize real-time collaboration, plan and save team work results, embed additional services) and collective development of software products (ability to collaborate on code, bug tracking, discuss code with other team members, manage code versions and integrate additional services, have a repository, wiki, and code editor) that should be used in the preparation of future IT professionals are analyzed and outlined in the paper. A comparative description of selected cloud services according to certain criteria and indicators are presented in this study. The recommendations on the use of appropriate services for the organization of project work (Microsoft Teams, Asana, Trello, Jira) and collective development of software products (GitHub, Bitbucket, DeployBot, Phabricator, Beanstalk) are offered by the author. The pedagogical research involves 42 expert-students of the Computer Science speciality. The results of the use of certain cloud services for project management and collective development of software products in the study of professional disciplines are presented. According to the pedagogical research, the most effective cloud services for project management and collective development of software products in the process of training future IT specialists according to certain criteria are Jira and GitHub cloud services, respectively. Examples and results of using certain cloud services in the process of training future IT professionals are given.