Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 14 Aug 2020
Hi! Our question last week was about having difficult conversations with your team members. I got two responses from managers: Haven't really needed to have...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 7 Aug 2020
Hi! Last week’s “Ask Managers Anything” question was “How are you making sure that junior staff get access to mentoring when everyone is working from home?”...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 31 July 2020
Hi, everyone! “How are you making sure that junior staff get access to mentoring when everyone is working from home?” was the most popular question on our...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 24 July 2020
Hi everyone - I hope it’s been a good week for you. On our side we’re setting up our first Jira sprint on a project I’m really excited about — and we have a...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 17 July 2020
Hi, everyone: I got a number of responses back from last week’s question about interviews or Q&A people were interested in both, at least trying it out. The...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 10 July 2020
Hi! Well, the move across institutions happened, which meant for one glorious moment I was at inbox zero on my work email. Other than that, the move was...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 3 July 2020
Hi, all: Half the year has passed, it’s Canada Day week here, and it’s the last day at our teams organizational home for the past four years before moving to...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 26 June 2020
Hi! As we get ready to move our team from one institution to another, we’re taking the opportunity to reconsider how we do things on our team and reset...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 19 June 2020
Hi, everyone! It’s been a weird couple of weeks here at RCT Global Headquarters. Our entire team is moving institutions, following our boss, and so there’s...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 12 June 2020
Hi! Sorry for the late roundup this week - the week kind of got away from me. But there’s been lots to talk about, so on we go! Managing Teams Architecture...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 5 June 2020
Hi, everyone. Many people in our community — and in the broader research community we serve — are in pain this week. There’s another video of another Black...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 29 May 2020
Hi, all: Some jurisdictions are starting to make plans for people returning to offices. For those of us who can readily work from home, that return may not...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 22 May 2020
Hi! I asked last week about your team’s productivity and how it is holding up. Here and on twitter you sent me the full range of answers; it was a rough 33%...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 15 May 2020
Hi! I asked last week about onboarding; people who responded last week said they weren’t bringing on student interns or new hires at all at this point in the...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 8 May 2020
Hi! Winter/spring semester is here, and our team is onboarding (completely virtually) new student interns. For the student working most closely with me,...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 1 May 2020
Hi! The newsletters have been getting kind of long lately, which makes them unwieldy to read. In this issue I’ll keep things much shorter (fewer items, and...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 24 Apr 2020
Hi everyone: Watching the research computing community respond to the pandemic has really been remarkable. We’ve seen centres all over the world make their...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 17 Apr 2020
Hi, everyone: We have articles below on us and our teams - how to onboard, communicate, and develop our team members - our teams and their place in our...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 10 Apr 2020
Hi everyone: The past weeks have enormously increased awareness globally of some issues we in the research computing world face. The vital importance of...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 3 Apr 2020
Hi! Every single week I wonder if there’s going to be enough material to send out a meaningful link writeup, and each week I end up leaving a bunch of...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 27 Mar 2020
Hi! It’s been quite a week. Research computing teams across the world are contributing to the effort against COVID-19 by prioritizing support, computing...
How To Quickly Start One-on-Ones with your Research Computing Team: A One-Week Plan of Action
Hi, everyone: Sorry for the off-cycle email. A lot of us are trying to figure out how to manage our teams now that we’re not all working in the same space....
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 20 Mar 2020
Hi, everyone: Even with stay-at-home orders and mandated social distancing, we’re very fortunate in our line of work. Much of our research computing efforts...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 13 Mar 2020 (well, 16 Mar 2020)
Hi everyone - Sorry for the lateness of this roundup. Like many of us, my team switched to into pure-remote mode this week; a move that has a lot of...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 6 Mar 2020
Hi! This week the COVID-19 saga is starting to have a big impact in the world of research computing. Conferences are being cancelled or switched to...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 28 Feb 2020
Hi! Last week’s roundup was a little link-heavy, and I’m hearing that it ended up in some people’s spam filters; sorry about that. If ever you don’t get one...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 21 Feb 2020
Hi! Thanks for following along through the week. I don’t think this first round of through-the-week emails worked as well as I had hoped, so I’ll pause that...
Why Research Computing Management? Part 4 - Staying On Top of the Field
Part 4 - Challenges of Managing in Broad, Rapidly Changing Field One final challenge of research computing is the breadth of what we’re expected to know and...
Why Research Computing Management? Part 3 - Managing in Academia
Part 3 - Challenges of Managing in an Academic Environment For those of us in or adjacent to academic institutions, the R&D efforts we are charged with -...
Why Research Computing Management? Part 2 - Pushing the Cutting Edge
Part 2 - The Cutting Edge, and Moving It (Carefully) In research computing, we’re always building at the cutting edge of something - whether that’s the...
Why Research Computing Management? Part 1
For the next few days, I want to talk about why research computing teams, and managing those teams well, is important — and why it’s meaningfully different...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 14 Feb 2020
Happy Valentine’s Day! We’re roughly at the middle of February - thanks for following along with the Research Computing Teams newsletter! Next week things...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, Feb 7 2020
Hi! It's been an interesting week online for research computing; we have relevant news ranging from managing people to managing workflows at global scale....
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 31 Jan 2020
Hi; I hope you’ve had a good week! This week, Clayton Christensen died. He was most famous for his book on The Innovator’s Dilema, which has more going for...
Research Computing Teams Link Roundup, 24 Jan 2020
Hi; I hope you’ve had a good week! A reader chimes in on the link roundup comments on one-on-ones, from the perspective of a director of research computing...
Research Computing Teams Link roundup, 17 Jan 2020
Hi: I hope you’ve had a good week! These were the resources that I saw circulating this week (might not necessarily be from this week) that I think our...
R&D Computing Teams Link Roundup, 10 Jan 2020
Hi: Even though the newsletter won’t start in earnest until mid-February or so (January is packed with deadlines), I’ve decided to start sending the link...