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Tips for Managing your Project’s Increasing Complexity: Part 2

As projects grow, the complexity of their implementation also grows. SSI Fellow Dr Edward Fisher examines best practices and methods that will allow you to handle complexity in both the technical and managerial domains of your project.

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Tips for Managing your Project’s Increasing Complexity: Part 1

As projects grow, the complexity of their implementation also grows. SSI Fellow Dr Edward Fisher examines best practices and methods that will allow you to handle complexity in both the technical and managerial domains of your project.
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Lessons learned from delivering online workshops

SSI staff Aleksandra Nenadic and Mario Antonioletti look at the impact the pandemic has had on the delivery of Carpentry lessons.
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News

Carpentries Instructor Training workshops running on 16-19 March

We will be running The Carpentries Instructor Training online in the afternoons of 16-19 March.
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Deadline for CW21 mini-workshop and social activity proposals: 31 January

The deadline for proposals for participant-led mini-workshops and social activities at Collaborations Workshop 2021 (CW21) is 23:59 GMT on 31 January. Proposers will be notified of the outcomes by 12 February.
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Call for guide ideas on research accessibility

As part of our Research Software Camp on research accessibility, the Software Sustainability Institute is looking for content contributors to submit ideas or proposals for guides.

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Events

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Research Software Camp: Research Accessibility

Our first online Research Software Camp on Research Accessibility will take place from 22 February to 5 March 2021.

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Collaborations Workshop 2021

Collaborations Workshop 2021 (CW21) takes place from Tuesday, 30 March to Thursday, 1 April 2021 online. The Software Sustainability Institute’s Collaborations Workshop series brings together researchers, developers, innovators, managers, funders, publishers, policy makers, leaders and educators to explore best practices and the future of research software.
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Collaborations Workshop 2020

Collaborations Workshop 2020 (CW20) takes place from Tuesday, 31st March to Thursday, 2nd April 2020 online. The Software Sustainability Institute’s Collaborations Workshop series brings together researchers, developers, innovators, managers, funders, publishers, leaders and educators to explore best practices and the future of research software.
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"We were already following a lot of best practice and it was very good to get this confirmation. We're not computer scientists and don't come from a software development background - we're all scientific programmers - so it was good to get some confirmation that what we do is on the right track"

- Andreas Hegar, CGAT