project-management
Organizing your data and software with a reproducible project workflow
DCC Spring Training Days
In this Spring Training workshop, we will take you through the life cycle of a project, teaching good habits along the way, and using familiar tools as much as possible.
We will start at the PRESENT, where you will create your project. From a few data files (adapted from Hope et al., 2021), you will create an organized project. Then, we will track the project’s history in PAST: you will make a changelog, and create a ‘project release’ with a version number. Finally, in FUTURE, you will archive and license your project so others can use it.
We will end the workshop with an informal sharing of our respective lessons from the past.
Preparation
See how you can prepare for this workshop here.
Code of Conduct
Participants are expected to follow these guidelines:
- Use welcoming and inclusive language
- Be respectful of different viewpoints and experiences
- Gracefully accept constructive criticism
- Focus on what is best for the community
- Show courtesy and respect towards other community members
- We do not tolerate any form of discrimination, intimidation or harassment.
If you feel any one of these guidelines has been violated, please contact the workshop organizers!
Workflow
- Work in groups of three (or pairs); ‘pair programming’ style.
- One of you is the driver: they work on their laptops and perform the actions.
- The other(s) support(s) the driver, by e.g. looking up questions, and being active and engaged with the driver’s work.
- Switch roles so that everyone in your team has been in the driver’s seat:
- You can share the dataset with each other.
- Do not worry if you have not been able to finish the exercises. You can take your project to the next step.
- Ask for help when needed, we are happy to support you!
- Call for a helper by sticking the post-it to your laptop.
Schedule
| Morning session | Agenda item | Link |
|---|---|---|
| 09:30 | Kickoff & introductions | Plenary |
| 09:45 | PRESENT: organize your project | Exercise for Present |
| 10:30 | Coffee break | - |
| 10:45 | PAST: version control | Exercise for Past |
| 11:30 | Coffee break | - |
| 11:45 | FUTURE: publication & archiving | Exercise for Future |
| 12:30 | Personal stories of challenges and struggles | Discussion |
| 12:50 | Wrap-up | Plenary |
| 13:00 | End of workshop |
Discussion
Answer these questions for yourself, and share your answers and experiences with the group:
- What is, for you, the main take-away from today’s workshop?
- What experience in your past has taught you an important lesson about project management?
Slides
Find the slides of the 2024 workshop here:
Videos
This is the third time this workshop was taught as part of the DCC Spring Training Days. Listening to the recodings of previous workshops may help you to solidify your knowledge:
More training
If you’re interested in learning more digital skills for research, check out the eScience Center’s upcoming training programme at esciencecenter-digital-skills.github.io/.
If you have feedback, questions, compliments, or simply greetings for us? Please contact the organizers.
License
This project is licensed under Creative Commons Attributions 4.0.