09: Project Management

It is undeniable that good project management leads to improved reproducibility and research productivity. Project management becomes significantly more important as the size of the project and the amount of data increases. Project management is not just about how you organize your data, files and folders but also how you record the steps in data analysis that leads to the publication of your research.

Table of contents

1. Introduction to Project Management

• 1.1 A Practical Guide to Managing a Research Project
• 1.2 Project Strategy & Design
  • 1.2.1 Project Framework

2. Collaboration & Communication

• 2.1 Team Communication Tools
  • 2.1.1 Introduction to Slack

3. Resource Management

• 3.1 Data Management
  • 3.1.1 CARE Principles
  • 3.1.2 FAIR Principles
• 3.2 Code Management
• 3.3 Storage & Version Control
  • 3.3.1 GIT - a distributed version control system
    • GIT Commands Cheatsheet
  • 3.3.2 Online Hosting Platforms for GIT Repositories
    • Introduction to GitHub
    • GitHub for advanced users
    • Introduction to BitBucket
• 3.4 Documentation Improvement Tools
  • 3.4.1 Introduction to Markdown
  • 3.4.2 Tools for Research Documentation
  • 3.4.3 Tools for Code Documentation

4. Quality Assurance

• 4.1 Monitoring & Evaluation
• 4.2 Productivity
• 4.3 Research Reproducibility
  • 4.3.1 Research Reproducibility Guideline

5. Project Closing

• Publication

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