1) A readme file with basic information anyone needs to know to get started on the project.
2) A (personal) setup file so that each person can document the location of each type of directory on their own computer.
3) A main do file that executes project do files in order. Note that you should nest do files within other do files. For example, you might have a do file that executes all of the code to create your analysis files. Another do file could execute all the scripts to do the data analysis. The main do file would call and execute both.
4) A system of logging the state of the computer when it ran the analysis, the set of steps to produce the results, and the results.
5) Code produces tables with the results you report. Certainly don’t type results into a table from a stata results window, but also don’t cut and paste.
