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eiji.kawasaki
2 years ago
eiji.kawasaki 2 years ago

Dear all,

We are pleased to announce that the upcoming “Do Research Like a Munchkin” workshop (6th edition) about Clean Code and Agile Project Management will be organized online from 6 Oct 2022 to 1 Dec 2022 (8 weeks) one session a 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

The application deadline is the 15th of September (12:00 CET): register here!

Best regards,

Eiji Kawasaki




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