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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

Fellows produce guidance to enhance accessibility of online calls

SSI Fellows Yo Yehudi and Malvika Sharan, along with Kaitlin Stack Whitney have produced guidance on 'Enhancing the Inclusivity and Accessibility of Your Online Calls'.
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Join our first online Research Software Camp

We are running our first online Research Software Camp on the topic of making your research accessible from 22 February to 7 March. Sign up for updates or submit a workshop proposal.
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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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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. Some of the planned sessions include a pre-recorded keynote tal

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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 are in a position to fundamentally reorganise the heart of the software. By doing so, this will enable us to maintain the software into the future and facilitate the process of adding new functionality to the software ... SSI can assist in having software usable by others not just for a few months or a year, but rather for a much longer software lifetime"

- Eric Rexstad, Distance