Research Computing Teams - Call to Action and Link Roundup, 14 Aug 2021
Hi, all: So the last newsletter resonated quite a bit (welcome to new members of the Research Computing Teams community)! It was a bit of a cri de coeur...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 6 Aug 2021
Research computing and data, as a community, has an inferiority complex. And it’s a problem. This week I saw yet another press release - I won’t link to it,...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 30 July 2021
Hi there: We’re going into a long weekend here in Toronto - the second-to-last one of the summer - and it’s very much needed. We have a number of pretty...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 24 July 2021
Hi, all: Success as a manger is defined by a lot of hard work and tough conversations that will pay off over very long timescales. It’s way less immediately...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 16 July 2021
Hi, everyone: I hope you're doing well. I’ve neglected the “managing your own career” section lately, which I'm going to try to fix; we spend a lot of time...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 10 July 2021
Hi, everyone! I hope you’re having a good weekend, and that the past week was good for you and your team. I’m working (with some help) on tidying up and...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 2 July 2021
Hi, all! Here our team is continuing to make post-pandemic plans for how work will work. Others are further ahead. This week Apple confirmed their very...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 25 June 2021
Hi there, everyone! It’s been a busy week here of contacting recommended potential job candidates, building consensus among stakeholders, debugging code, and...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 18 June 2021
Hi! I’m back and refreshed from my mini-break from the newsletter; there’s a lot of optimism in the air here as COVID-19 numbers continue to drop and...
Research Computing Teams Micro-roundup, 11 June 2021
Hi, everyone! Mainly taking the week off from the newsletter this week (for positive reasons - some family celebrations); things will return to normal next...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 5 June 2021
Hi, everyone: We have several items this week about post pandemic management and continuing to manage a distributed team. It's hard to hire and retain...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 28 May 2021
Hi, all: I think I helped a team find the courage (and the organizational support) to say “no” to things this week. Strategy for research computing teams is...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 22 May 2021
Hi, everyone! This week’s RCT Newsletter is a little slow going out; the reason ties into something I’ve been meaning to write a bit more about, usual...
Research Computing Teams - Online Manager Training Options and Link Roundup, 14 May 2021
Hi, all: I got an important question and comment from longtime newsletter reader Laura Kinkead at University of Zurich: Do you have any recommendations for...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 7 May 2021
Hi, all: I hope you’re enjoying the change of seasons. The end of April here brings an onslaught of deadlines, meetings, and events, but things are settling...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 30 Apr 2021
Hi, everyone! If you paid any attention to tech management twitter at all in the past week, you heard about how Basecamp started the week by announcing - in...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 23 April 2021
Hi, everyone! I have a somewhat short newsletter for you this week; exciting things are happening at work with product adoption and hiring, both of which are...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 16 April 2021
Hi, everyone: Thanks for your comments about earlier hiring and feedback posts. I’m taking those responses and getting some help pulling those together,...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 9 April 2021
Hi, everyone: I hope you’ve been well; I’ve had a short week with a 4-day Easter long weekend. Between being recharged for the weekend, and finally having a...
Research Computing Teams - Quarterly Goal Setting and Link Roundup, 2 April 2021
Hi there - if this is a long weekend for you, I hope you’re enjoying it. Last time we spoke a little bit about expectations, and routine feedback to team...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 26 Mar 2021
Hi, all! Last issue, I left you with a couple of models for giving feedback. We had Situation-Behaviour-Impact: “When you presented the proposed plan at the...
Research Computing Teams - Routine Feedback and Link Roundup, 19 Mar 2021
Hi, everyone: This week I want to talk a little bit about giving routine feedback to team members; or you can skip to the roundup. I mentioned last time that...
Research Computing Teams - Performance Communication is Expectations Communication, and Link Roundup, 12 March 2021
Hi, everyone - Here in Toronto we’re enjoying the traditional season of “False Spring”, where a burst of warm weather and blue skies lures the unwary into...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 5 March 2021
Hi! It’s been a big week here - we finally got a long-awaited paper submitted, attended one virtual conference, and are gearing up for another. I hope you...
Research Computing Teams - Job Ads and Link Roundup, 26 Feb 2021
Hi, all! Thanks for your responses to last newsletter. Readers who responded were broadly pretty happy with the all-in-one newsletter, even if gets a little...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 19 Feb 2021
Hi, everyone: I hope you’re doing well! I have two questions for you. This week kind of got away from me - it’s been an exciting couple of weeks, with two...
Research Computing Teams - Evaluating Hiring Requirements and Link Roundup, 12 Feb 2021
Hi! So you’ve got a list of hiring requirements written up - the next step is to think about how to evaluate candidates against the requirements. That’s...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 5 Feb 2021
Hi! I hope you’re having a good week. Below is the continuation of our discussion on hiring, stemming in part from the more formalized pipeline that we’re...
Research Computing Teams - Hiring: Try to Say No, and Link Roundup, 29 Jan 2021
Hi! The good news is that my team, and the larger organization I'm a part of, is going to be growing substantially in the coming year. That’s also the bad...
Research Computing Teams - Stop Doing Things Change Management and Link Roundup, 22 January 2021
Hi, all! This is the last part of the stop doing things challenge - the change management of actually stopping doing something. Or you can skip straight to...
Research Computing Teams - Stop Doing Things Challenge #2, and Link Roundup, 15 Jan 2021
Hi, all: Most of us are now well and truly back into the swing of things; I hope you and your team are doing well. Skip to the roundup Last time we talked...
RCT - The Stop Doing Something Challenge Part 1, Embedding Staff, and Link Roundup, 9 Jan 2021
Hi! Happy New Year, everyone. I hope you had some time over the holidays to rest and recuperate. A lot of us have discovered that it wasn’t enough - we’re...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 18 Dec 2020
Congratulations, everyone; we did it. If you’re at a University, 2020 is now or is soon to be officially at a close. For the rest of us, while there is some...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 11 Dec 2020
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 11 Dec 2020 Hi, everyone! I don’t have anything of my own to share with you this issue, but it’s been an interesting...
Research Computing Teams - Research Infrastructure Funding Stories and Link Roundup, 4 Dec 2020
Hi, everyone: There were two big stories in the news this week about what's possible with sustained research infrastructure funding and what happens when...
Research Computing Teams: Focus, Communications, and Link Roundup, 27 Nov 2020
Hi! I wrote a few weeks ago that, post-pandemic, we in research computing teams are going to have to work to make our value clear to administrations,...
Research Computing Teams: M1 and Link Roundup, 22 Nov 2020
Hi, all: Sorry for the late issue. Between some stuff going on at my end and me still figuring out what a revamped newsletter will look like, this week’s...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 13 Nov 2020
Hi! This is email #50, and a good time to think about what’s next. It helps that events of this week - the US election, Pfizer’s vaccine - make thinking...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 6 Nov 2020
Hi! I’ve had to have a few different difficult discussions around our project this week, and while they were exhausting it’s been great to clear the air. And...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 30 Oct 2020
Hi! Most of us have made so many half-plans about the future after COVID ("In a couple months, when this blows over..", "By August, we should be able to...")...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 23 Oct 2020
Hi all - The folks at Raw Signal Group's latest newsletter points out that while a lot of bosses are managing to keep the big things going, a lot of us are...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 16 Oct 2020
Hi, everyone: I had a couple of good talks with fellow research computing team managers (in title or de facto) this week resulting from either the newsletter...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 9 Oct 2020
Hi, all: As I write this, the jurisdiction I live in (Ontario, Canada) is almost certainly about to start additional COVID-19 restrictions - 4-8 weeks later...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 2 Oct 2020
Hi, all: It’s been a good week here to remind me of the breadth of skills we need as research computing managers. I’ve had to meet separately with several...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 25 Sept 2020
Hi, everyone: Sorry again about the slightly irregular time, and the lack of much of a preamble - heavy deadlines these past two weeks, and I've been...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 18 Sept 2020
Hi - Sorry for sending the newsletter out somewhat late today. There's a lot of good material in the roundup - noticing change, understanding why your team...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 11 Sept 2020
Hi, all! Just a short introduction this week - there's a full set of links to round up this week, with a lot on communicating with teams, watching out for...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 4 Sept 2020
Hi! Our last AMA (Ask Managers Anything) question was: For non-embedded teams, what do you do to keep researcher clients / stakeholders up to date on...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 28 Aug 2020
Hi! Our AMA - Ask Managers Anything - last time was “How are you keeping morale up during these challenging times”? We got a couple of answers: I’ve been...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 21 Aug 2020
Hi! Our AMA (Ask Managers Anything) question last week was: What tools do you use to keep yourself organized? As a research software developer I had two or...