Webinar 011: Barely Sufficient Project Management
Channel: IDEAS Productivity
Date: 2017-09-20

Presenter: Michael A. Heroux, SNL
Presented: 2017-09-13

Software development is an essential activity for many scientific teams.  Modeling, simulation and data analysis, using team-developed software, are increasing valuable for scientific discovery and engineering. Many teams use informal, ad hoc approaches for managing their software efforts.  While sufficient for many efforts, a modest emphasis on team models and processes can substantially improve developer productivity and software sustainability. In this presentation, we discuss several light-weight techniques for managing scientific software efforts.  Using checklists, policy statements and a Kanban workflow system, we emphasize techniques for managing the initiation and exit of team members, approaches to synthesizing team culture, and ways to improve communication within a team and with its stakeholders.

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