How to manage expectations while juggling different projects with overlapping deadlines and competing resources?

Collaborations Workshop 2018 - 2018-03-26 How to manage expectations while juggling different projects with overlapping deadlines and competing resources? - CI1-CW18 Reporter Tania R Allard - t.allard@sheffield.ac.uk Participants Stephan Druskat, Robert Haines, Tania Allard, Mark Woodbridge, Stuart Grieve, Brigitta Sipocz, Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran, Raquel Alegre Context / Research Domain This problem is often found within Research Software Engineering like-teams working collaboratively in a number of research projects. Problem Now that the necessity of having an RSE in a project is established, the issue of managing the expectations of the projects and allocating resources to multiple concurrent projects....

3 min · 445 words · Stephan Druskat, Robert Haines, Tania Allard, Mark Woodbridge, Stuart Grieve, Brigitta Sipocz, Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran, Raquel Alegre

Key Performance Indicators for Research Software Engineering Output

CW22 - 2022-04-04 Collaborative Ideas session group: F-Fern Participants Stephan Druskat, German Aerospace Center (DLR), stephan.druskat@dlr.de Daniel S. Katz, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, d.katz@ieee.org Heather Turner, University of Warwick, h.turner.1@warwick.ac.uk Vashti Galpin, University of Edinburgh, Vashti.Galpin@ed.ac.uk Amal Alghamdi, DTU, amaal@dtu.dk Jannetta Steyn, Newcastle University, jannetta.steyn@newcastle.ac.uk Group photo Collaborative Idea Title Key Performance Indicators for Research Software Engineering Output Context / Research Domain Software Sustainability Problem (Stephan) Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are used in research evaluation to determine the grade of success of a researcher, research project, research group, or research process....

4 min · 647 words · Stephan Druskat, Daniel S. Katz, Heather Turner, Vashti Galpin, Amal Alghamdi, Jannetta Steyn, Daniel S. Katz, James Baker, Martin Donnelly, Melodee Beals, Richard Adams, Stephen Dowsland

Koko

CW21 - 2021-03-30 Koko - CI11-CW21 Participants Stephan Druskat (stephan.druskat@dlr.de) Sammie Buzzard (BuzzardS@cardiff.ac.uk) Bailey Harrington (baileythegreen@gmail.com) Leyla Jael G. Castro (ljgarcia@zbmed.de) Abhishek Dasgupta (abhishek.dasgupta@cs.ox.ac.uk) The Adventurous Architect - \ A Blueprinter for Research Software Skills Context / Research Domain Cross-domain (research software education/learning) Problem Learners completing a basic Software (or other) Carpentry workshop don’t have clear next steps for how to continue their education, and those next steps will be different for many career paths....

2 min · 363 words · Stephan Druskat, Sammie Buzzard, Bailey Harrington, Leyla Jael G. Castro, Abhishek Dasgupta

Ready to deposit?

Collaborations Workshop 2019 (CW19) #CollabW19 2019-04-01 to 2019-04-03 Discussion group 8 - Ready to deposit? - CI14-CW2CC Reporter Stephan Druskat - stephan.druskat@dlr.de Participants Emily Bell Dav Clark Stephan Druskat Robert Haines Patrick McCann Tom Russell Initial ideas discussion Guidance for researchers on how to deposit software Ref: “Software Deposit: What to deposit” https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1327325 Tool: Repository checker for what to deposit? Tool that checks all necessary files and metadata is available for As a GitHub commit probot?...

3 min · 598 words · Emily Bell, Dav Clark, Stephan Druskat, Robert Haines, Patrick McCann, Tom Russell

RESPIRATOR (Research Software Performance Indicators Really Acknowledging The Objective Reality)

CW22 - 2022-04-04 Hack Day Idea proposer Stephan Druskat Hack Day Idea title (provisional) RESPIRATOR (Research Software Performance Indicators Really Acknowledging The Objective Reality) - Breathing life into key performance indicators for research software engineering work that evaluators can understand Context and/or research domain This applies to all domains, institutions, managers, funders, etc. who still rely on outdated metrics and KPIs that don’t reflect the reality of computer-based research. Problem The Objective Reality is that research software plays a crucial role in research today....

4 min · 667 words · Stephan Druskat