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Presentation Agile Academia OpenMR 2021

What is Agile

Agile Software Development

  • Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
  • Working software over comprehensive documentation
  • Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
  • Responding to change over following a plan

Kanban

  • Limitation of Work In Progress (WIP)
  • Visual representation of work (Kanban Board)
  • Pull system (team members to only “pull” new tasks once the previous task is complete.)

Scrum

  • Work in short iterations (called Sprints)
  • Plan you tasks for Sprint in Advance, during Sprint you are working only on tasks from Sprint Backlog)
  • Short Daily meetings, when team members talk about progress and obstacles
  • After a Sprint there is a time for Review and Retrospective
  • Next iteration begins from planning and incorporating feedback from previous Sprint

Be an Agile Academic

  • Work in Discrete Iterations
  • Minimal Viable Product (Draft of the paper?)
  • Visualize your Workflow
  • Shorten the Feedback Loop and Look for it
  • Test Driven Design
  • Be Adaptative, Not Predictive
  • Team Work

What are the obstacles for Agile Academia ?

  • Academic work is solo work
  • If you are a PhD student is harder to change your environment (easier for PI)
  • Feedback in academia often happens too late
  • ‘Things go slower here’
  • Agile vs Slow Science
  • Every discipline and research project is different
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