October 22, 2019
The day-to-day life of a startup requires agility. In order to succeed, companies need to fail projects fast, communicate often, and adapt their plans at a moment’s notice. Seeing this need to change their working style to be more flexible and goal-focused, the software development industry built agility into their processes via a framework called Agile Software Development. Now we explore the question: how can these same practices help within scientific organizations too?
October 24, 2018
This Handbook is written with the scientific audience in mind. It's intended as a general overview of the Agile values and practices, and highlights several techniques which can be used to foster the Agile values within the laboratory. At a higher level, this document can be interpreted as a way to introduce Agile values and practices to non-traditional Agile settings. If you like what you read, please feel free to comment and share!
October 24, 2018
My Master's Capstone presentation at the Broad Institute is designed for laboratory scientists and beginners as an introduction to Agile ideas, practices, and implementation. This talk highlights much of the content documented in the Agile Laboratory Handbook, with additional examples of how different laboratories have introduced and iterated on Agile ideas.
August 14, 2018
These documents were composed for the Agile 2018 National conference hosted by Agile Alliance. These resources highlight specific challenges to Agile adoption faced by scientists in the academic laboratory. This information was created with existing Agile practitioners in mind. It highlights the challenges around introducing Agile practices to the academic space and does not go into details about how to actually implement these ideas and practices within the laboratory setting. For that information, please check out the Agile Laboratory Handbook listed above.
If you are a member of Agile Alliance, please feel free to check out the recording of my conference session as well.