How to start a project successfully is often overlooked, but is always important. Projects often consist of many components that are built separately and then combined together to create a larger system. Because of this, we will look at how to create and share libraries so we can benefit from modularity and a more decentralized system. This will also help in configuring your environment to work with, for example, checking project folders into and out of version control systems.

Due to the decentralized nature of software engineering, we will take a look at how to import projects from different sources. This will give us a greater opportunity to work with various teams that use different sets of tools while still benefiting from NetBeans's capabilities.