A few years back, I tried to map the different types of software project management infrastructure, based on when they're needed at different stages of maturity for a project (see attached). This drew upon sources like Fogel's Producing OSS, with tweaks specifically for working in a research environment. Would be interested in getting comments on whether I've missed anything.
What I never did was map the current tools to these types - e.g. we've gone from using IRC to Skype to Slack for Real Time Chat, and Trac to GitHub Issues and Trello for Issue Tracking / Project Collaboration (which is something I've missed from the diagram). Cheers, Neil On 8 February 2017 at 10:08, Anelda van der Walt <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear community, > > I am struggling to advise our researchers about which tools to use to manage > their research projects, data, communication, documents, calender, etc with. > > Some suggestions has been Asana, Trello, Slack, amongst others. > > I understand that individual researchers/research groups may choose to use > any tool they prefer and that they probably came to using the tool because > they saw it in their community or heard about it from a friend. > > My question is, at a university level, what is a good default workflow to > recommend to researchers if they're completely new at using software to > manage/share? So the audience is not computer programmers (github won't > work). > > The great thing is that so many tools integrate with each other these days - > Take e.g. Trello's integration with Github, Drive, etc. > > If you have any ideas or suggestions of something that works or is > recommended by your university, please contact me directly. I would really > appreciate your ideas and inputs. > > Kind regards, > > Anelda > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss -- Neil Chue Hong Director, Software Sustainability Institute EPCC, University of Edinburgh, JCMB, Edinburgh, EH9 3FD, UK Tel: +44 (0)131 650 5957 http://www.software.ac.uk/ LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/neilchuehong Twitter: http://twitter.com/npch ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8876-7606
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