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4. Best Practices and Collaborative Development

Objectives:

  • Understand best practices by Wilson et al
  • Basic components of Reproducible Research
  • Be familiar with concepts related to Scrum

Best Practices in Scientific Computing

Wilson et al 2014 Best practices in Scientific Computing

Wilson et al paper: http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1001745

Slideshow: http://swcarpentry.github.io/slideshows/best-practices/

Wilson et al 2017 Good enough practices in Scientific Computing

Wilson et al paper: https://swcarpentry.github.io/good-enough-practices-in-scientific-computing/

Example: PEcAn Project

Please start the day by reading this.

Scrum

X% of companies use Scrum: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/search?q=scrum