Dear all,

We are 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

Applications are open, contact us following this link.

Best regards,

Eiji Kawasaki