I have discussed previously on this blog about how well the Scientific Method adapts to Agile approaches. These ideas also took me to an unfinished effort to draft an Agile Research Manifesto. However, by talking to several people with similar ideas, I realized that these attempts were largely interpreted as an intellectual exercise with little practical application. It is clearly my fault for not having explained that all of this in reality comes from many practical experiences. Some of these experiences go back to my PhD years when managing the CLAM framework, as well as many undergrad student projects. As a matter of fact, during those days I published a practical guide for students on how to do their final project the “agile way” (I still keep the webpage, in catalan, for historical reasons).
In any case, in this post I wanted to address the practical side of agile research management by giving you a flavor of how I try to manage projects.
