For new collaborator
A short and painless introduction into the Smart Process Lab (SPL) Team.
Hereafter some informations as new SPL collaborator. You can look into it once you have some free time. Feel free to ask the teammembers anything anytime.
- SPL Team
- For holiday demands use the Notion tool to make your requests.
- The Scrum Planning is done with the Notion Kanbanboard
Project
A list of some SPL project can be found on the project page of the official SPL page.
Microsoft Teams
We use intensively teams, we have a Smart Process Lab Scrum channel additionally each project has its own channel too. Teams is mainly used for communication not for file sharing.
Normally for each Project a seperate team is created. Ask the project manager for inviting your to the team.
All old projects are archived in the network drive filer01.hevs.ch/FS_PROJETS/SmartProcessLab/Projects/.
One Drive
With each Team Channel there is a Onedrive automatically created. You can view the files online or sync it locally via Onedrive app in Windows or Linux.

Notion
Notion is a platform where the SPL group implemented the tools for the SCRUM work methodology. There are multiple pages dedicated to specific tasks.
- SPL Workspace
- Kanban - The official Kanban board with all current tasks for the sprint are listed. These card will be moved during the Daily Standup as well as the Sprint planning.
- To-Do Extern - Work to be done by persones external. That way we don't forget to push these people to do their work.
- Meeting Notes - For every meeting a meeting note can be created and edited my multiple persons during the meeting in real-time.
- Retrospective - At the end of each SCRUM retrospective the SPL group performs an analyses of the work methodology.
- Projects - Quick information about projects if needed subpages can be created. Main documentation has to be done in SPL Projects
MkDoc Webpages
This website is an integral part of the SPL work methodology. Everyone is encouraged and even required to write content on this website. The content is written in markdown language. to get to know how to write content checkout the Cheatsheet and the How to write Docs pages. There are three different webpages live at the moment.
- SPL-Website: General information about the SPL, for promotional activities
- SPL-Docs: General information about programming tools, code, spl admin stuff and internal (non constellium projects)
- Constellium-Docs: Non public webpage for Constellium related confidential informations
- Hevslib-python: Documentation about our own python library with some modules helping programming in python
The Webpages are a live construct and anybody is free and even encouraged to add/change information to it. If something is wrong of missing, just do it.
Code
We use mainly our internal gitlab to manage the code and use always and only git repos 😉. In gitlab there is a dedicated group called SPL there are multiple subgroups.
- Miscellaneous for all code unrelated to any project
- Digital Twin for all code related to the Digital Twin project
- Unique Stability Plate for all code related to the "Unique Stability Plate" project
- Digitalu for all code related to "Digitalu" project
- Extrusion Feasibility Prediction for all code related to Masterthesis "Extrusion Feasibility Prediction"
- Viable Large Scale Production Metrology for all code related to "Viable Large Scale Production Metrology" project
- Press Pressure Prediction for all code related to "Press Pressure Prediction" project
- Syrto for all code related to Syrto project and mandats
Additionally there are three special repos for the Documentation on the root of the SPL Group.
Styleguides
- For git repository commit message see git intro.
- For python code see python intro.
- For issues organization in GitLab we use labels, see gitlab-labels.
Tools
We don't really have common tools, every project works a bit differently and every collaborator prefers other tools. Many project are using python and therefore some recommendations from my side:
Windows only
- TotalCommander as a proper file explorer
- Everything to find quickly any file or folder
- Cmder as command line interface
- Rapid Environment Editor as environment variables editor
- PhraseExpress text expander and autotext software
Linux only
- Krusader as a proper file explorer
- Fsearch to find quickly any file or folder
- oh my ZSH to replace the default linux shell
All platforms
- Sublime Merge for using our git repos
- Sublime Text as a simple easy and quick text editor
- VS Code another full fledged IDE
- Anaconda as python datascience distribution
- Jupyterlab for datascience with python (shipped with Anaconda)
- IntelliJIDEA if you need a full fledged IDE
- Speedcrunch to replace any official calculator
- Deepl text translation into any language