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I’m currently using Scrum in my school capstone project.  The advisor, however, designed the deliverables around the Unified Process and still expects some things like a Software Project Management Plan (SPMP).  While it’s a little late in the game, I’ve decided to fill one out and hope that maybe it’ll help weed out some requirements I didn’t document well in my backlogs.

First task – find a template.  An SPMP is usually based off of IEEE’s standard 1058-1998, which costs more than a hundred dollars to get a copy of.  I’m not paying $100+ to get a 200KB document.  I’ve seen example around the Internet of a SPMP but nothing that was formatted well in Word or handled copying and pasting into Word.  I spent some time doing more digging and found this wonderful site -

Construx – Resources & Tools

The site/company was founded by Steve McConnell – a name I had not heard of until now.  He’s apparently well known for software design, etc.  Free registration gives you access to the tools and under Management there is a full and light template along with instructions.  Score!

Xcode has a build directory inside of your project, which you shouldn’t be including in your source code management repository.  Simply said, those files change so much and are “discardable”.  There is no way to easily exclude this directory from your repository.  The accepted way to fix this (after some digging) is to simply move the build directory for Xcode to a temporary folder.

To move the build directory, click on the Xcode menu in your menu bar, and click on Preferences.  Change the folder under “Building” to a temporary folder.  I created a tmp directory in my user folder.