Research Computing Teams #150, 17 Dec 2022
Your End-Of-Year Review You did great this year. I wanted to take some time to personally recognize the work you've put in during 2022. You have been a...
Research Computing Teams #149, 9 Dec 2022
I got a couple of emails about last weeks issue, asking about both communicating expectations and team processes. The most important, the most fundamental of...
Research Computing Teams #148, 3 Dec 2022
I was part of a discussion recently about a disengaged team member, and the topic of process vs expectations came up. I write and talk a lot about...
Research Computing Teams #147, 26 Nov 2022
I spent much of this week helping teach a small part of EMBL-EBI’s excellent Managing a Bioinformatics Core Facility course (Here’s the 2021 public...
Research Computing Teams #146, 19 Nov 2022
One of the things I wrestle with a bit with the newsletter is trying to cover the range of topics that research computing and data managers need to think...
Research Computing Teams #145, 12 Nov 2022
This week I did something a bit different: I interviewed Matthew Smith, ARC Research Systems Manager at the University of British Columbia. We had a great...
Research Computing Teams #144, 5 Nov 2022
title: “#144 - 5 Nov 2022” subtitle: “We can improve retention on our teams; Hacking your Bureaucracy; When Feedback Hurts; Your New Power Dynamics; Get...
Research Computing Teams #143, 28 Oct 2022
title: “#143 - 29 Oct 2022” subtitle: “Recruting means talking to people; Talkative people in quiet groups; Years of experience is a bad proxy; Working with...
Research Computing Teams #142, 22 Oct 2022
Issue #140 was controversial, but not for the reasons that I thought it might be. In the last two weeks I’ve had now had several people flat-out deny this...
Research Computing Teams #141, 15 Oct 2022
In #139, we talked about some general purpose first steps when taking on a new responsibility. Let’s talk about the other side of that, now — how to make...
Research Computing Teams #140, 8 Oct 2022
This week I got a question about time-and-materials billing. So I want to talk a little bit about how consultants and other expert services firms...
Research Computing Teams #139, 1 Oct 2022
I got asked a question building on the last post about taking on a new project, and the current top unanswered poll.ly question is “I'm starting a new job!...
Research Computing Teams #138 - 24 Sept 2022
I got a question from a reader this week which I’m surprised to see that I haven’t addressed before, and that I’m sharing with permission: I have several...
Research Computing Teams #137, 17 Sept 2022
I get a lot of questions about both hiring and communicating expectations/performance management. I’m trying to compile and clean up some of what I’ve...
Research Computing Teams #136, 10 Sept 2022
A housekeeping item before we get started - I’ve had the searchable archives for back issues for a while, but there’s a limit to what a simple text search...
Research Computing Teams #135, 3 Sept 2022
Long time reader Adam DeConinck wrote in answering a question about Firecracker, a light-weight VM which is used for hosting tools like (as in last issue)...
Research Computing Teams #134, 27 Aug 2022
I’ve been catching up on some reader feedback now that I’m back in the swing of newsletter things. Thank you all so much for your emails! I’ve learned a lot...
Research Computing Teams #133, 20 Aug 2022
Hi - I hope you’re enjoying your August! One of the things I’d like to do now that I’m back from a couple of weeks off from the newsletter, is start being...
Research Computing Teams #132, 30 Jul 2022
Hi! Last week we talked about ways to say no to incoming requests; besides a flat-out no, I mentioned the possibility of involving another team, or...
Research Computing Teams #131, 23 July 2022
Hi! A question came in from a reader - I’ve talked before about how to not do things, and in my recent talk I said “do whatever researchers ask for” isn’t a...
