Hi everyone, The Data and Software Carpentry staff have been working together to make progress on projects that are important for our community. To help us do this, we’re trying out a new work process based on BaseCamp’s six week work cycle. You can read their blog post <https://m.signalvnoise.com/how-we-set-up-our-work-cbce3d3d9cae#.tlqcifdxy> if you’re interested in the details of how structuring a work cycle works. We’re picking a small handful of projects to focus on for each six week cycle, with each staff member working on one or two projects. For each project, we’re setting realistic goals we know we can accomplish before the end of the cycle and holding ourselves accountable to meeting those goals. We’re spending the first two weeks of the cycle planning those goals, dividing up the work into teams, and setting timelines to make sure we stay on track. We envision this workflow having some specific advantages, including:
- Reducing clutter and letting us focus on making progress. - Making it ok to say “we can’t tackle this right now, but that’s an important project, can we do it next cycle”? - Making it possible for busy community members to be involved without having to commit time indefinitely. (No commitments after the cycle ends!) - Bringing staff time and resources together with community enthusiasm. - Giving us a structure for regularly communicating what we’re working on with the community at large. - Providing passionate community members more opportunities to get involved. We’re still working out some of the details of how working in cycles will work for us, but we’re excited to share our plan for the first round. If there’s something you’re excited about for the next round, let us know! If you’d like to join (or organize) a team for one of the next few cycles, let us know! Please post an issue on our conversations repo <https://github.com/carpentries/conversations/issues> or email [email protected]. For details of what we're working on in this cycle, check out our blog post <http://www.datacarpentry.org/blog/prometheus/>. Let us know what you think! Best, Erin -- Erin Becker, PhD Associate Director, Data Carpentry http://www.datacarpentry.org/ Research Associate, MMG Dept., UC Davis
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