Dear all,

We are pleased to announce that the upcoming “Do Research Like a Munchkin” workshop (5th edition) about Clean Code and Agile Project Management will be organized online from 27 Jan 2022 to 24 Mar 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

Applications are open, contact us following this link.

Best regards,

Eiji Kawasaki