I keep coming back to this paper: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0160 from Julia Lowndes et al when discussing collaborative working.
On 27 February 2018 at 02:48, David E. Bernholdt <bernhold...@ornl.gov> wrote: > I'm in the US, but nearly all of my projects for many years have been > multi-institutional. In most cases, a majority of the participants are > people I've worked with before, or at least have met, which helps. But > here are some of the things that we've done to help... > > Someone already suggested an in-person meeting. That's really useful to > kick-off a project, especially if many people don't know each other. It is > also useful to continue periodic in-person meetings if budgets permit. In > most of my projects, we plan at least one in-person meeting per year. > > Get your collaboration environment setup right away. Mailing lists, slack > channels, wikis, code repos, Google Drive, Dropbox, etc. Make sure you can > control access as you need to. It may require some experimentation to see > what tools your group will actually use. > > Make extensive use of videoconferencing or teleconferencing tools. They're > much more interactive than mailing lists, or even slack, and will help > people feel like they're working together. > > Have regular videoconferences for project updates. Expect everyone to > attend (recognizing that everyone will have conflicts from time to time). > Most of my projects use a bi-weekly schedule, but some weekly and some > monthly. > > If you're expecting any turnover in the project team it is probably worth > writing down an on-boarding process for new team members to ensure they get > access to _all_ of the collaboration tools you're using and added to _all_ > of the recurring calendar events, etc. > > Those are some of the main things that come to my mind. Hope it helps. > > > On 2/26/2018 1:21 PM, Karin Lagesen wrote: > >> I find myself in the position of being a work package leader for a EU >> project. I don't know any of the ones that will work with me in this work >> package, and they all work at different institutions all over Europe. To >> boot, I have never managed a EU work package before. >> >> Thus, I am looking for tips, links, books, whatever you might know of >> that might help me forge these people into an actual team that gets stuff >> done. I know there are a lot of researchers and others on this list that >> might have been in the same situation as me, which is why I thought asking >> via this list might garner some good results. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Karin >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org >> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss >> > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss > -- Website: http://mikerspencer.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikerspencer Twitter: https://twitter.com/MikeRSpencer
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