Managing Research Software Projects

About the Workshop

This workshop introduces the ideas and tools you need to manage a team of up to a dozen people working together to build research software. Each session ends with something you can take home and use the following week.

Sessions

1. Introduction
2. Project Health
3. Checklists
4. Welcoming Newcomers
5. Governance
6. Marketing
7. Requirements
8. Hiring and Firing
9. Performance and Growth
10. Managing the Work
11. The Next 90 Days

Additional Modules

1. Managing Your Manager
2. Psychological Safety
3. Succession and Endings
4. Career Development
5. Remote Collaboration
6. Burnout
7. Office Politics

Appendices

1. License
2. Code of Conduct
3. Contributing
4. Bibliography
5. Glossary
6. Retrospective
7. Development Process
8. Managing Conflict
9. Security
10. Performance Review Counterexamples

Acknowledgments

Greg Wilson is a programmer, author, and educator based in Toronto. He was the co-founder and first Executive Director of Software Carpentry and received ACM SIGSOFT's Influential Educator Award in 2020.

start where you are · use what you have · help who you can