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Meet the Research Impact Canvas - Benedikt Fecher and Christian Kobsda One vital but underlooked piece of managing technical work like research computing efforts is making sure we’re providing as much utility to our organization or research community as possible. In the business and especially startup world there’s the “business model canvas”, a framework for writing out and thinking through how you would sustainably “provide value” for customers — in this article, Fecher and Kobsda present one for research efforts. What are the things you...
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Research Computing and Data Capabilities: A Tool for Assessment and Improvement - Data Brunson, Claire Mizumoto, Patrick Shmitz, EDUCAUSE This is really important and relevant work that I was pointed to by a long-time reader; I hadn’t even known this work was going on. A working group between EDUCAUSE, Internet2, and the Campus Research Computing Consortium has put together a very detailed capability model of research computing in research institutions. The model is clearly of an HPC-type centre at a university, but I think the...
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Write Five, Then Synthesize: Good Engineering Strategy Is Boring - Will Larson Focus enable strategy - not only what you’ll be doing, but how you’ll be doing it. Developing a software development strategy for a team allows you to focus on the important parts of each project rather than bikeshedding the same decisions again and again. You can’t develop such a strategy for executing projects if each project is completely different. Larson’s article is an argument in favour of grounding such a strategy in the...
Continue...4 Practical Steps For Strategic Planning As A Leader - Anthony Boyd One hard things for new leaders to really come to terms with is that they typically have a lot more freedom in what their team does and how their team does it than might be comfortable. Defining a strategy for how to do whatever your team is charged with doing is a big responsibility. And it’s a lot scarier than staying focused on the day-to-day of routine work. As a result, I see...
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How to Write a Strategy Statement Your Team Will Actually Remember - Michael Porter, Nobl Academy Saying “no” - Mike McQuaid Porter’s article highlights an idea that’s come up a few times in the roundup - a very clear way to write out priorities or strategy is to contrast two things, both positive, and explicitly say that your strategy values one over the other. It’s too easy to write out “motherhood and apple pie” strategies: “we value moving fast and solid code”. But those statements...
Continue...What Does and Doesn’t Happen After You Specialize? - David Baker Research computing and data has a large consulting component, and for that part of the job we can learn a lot from other consultants. The basic job - understand some aspect of a client’s work, uncover their problems, connect their problem to our specific expertise, and help them construct a solution - is the same in any field. Consultants in other fields are much more successful when they specialize. As long-term readers will know,...
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