Software Development Practices Applied to Computational Research

Dear all, I am pleased to announce that the upcoming “Do Research Like a Munchkin” workshop (4th edition) about Clean Code and Agile Project Management will be organized online. It will start on the 18th of October 2021 and will last 9 weeks. Participants will be asked to practice what they learn by working with a team on a small research project. The total effort requested to each team is less than 5 hours of work every week. Details about the workshop can be found on the official website. Summary: We are two Computational Physicists who moved out of academia to work in Software Development. The workshop “Do Research Like a Munchkin” is our attempt to introduce computational researchers to our vision of how Scientific Computing can benefit from Software Development practices. You can find the program here: https://the-munchkins.gitlab.io/do-research-like-a-munchkin/lectures/ The workshop will include the following topics: - Introduction to Project Management: Waterfall vs Agile - How to write stories, maintain a Backlog and work with a board - Improve constantly with Retrospectives - Agile best practices - Tests and test-driven development - Git and git workflows - Clean and maintainable code - Useful documentation Best regards, Eiji Kawasaki