Risks
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Being aware of the risks when planning and managing DP-Next will help us in mitigating them.
Aside from the standard project management tasks, implementing modern research operations and collaborative practices that support conducting open and reproducible science across all Steno Centers will be a major challenge. From both the technical and cultural sides, these work tasks often lack support at the institutional level and lack of awareness and training at the personnel level. So usually work is done from the ground-up, which often results in unexpected issues.
Given that there are few personnel in research environments with the necessary technical knowledge and skills and they often move out of academia into industry positions, a substantial amount of time and effort will be spent in training and upskilling existing personnel. The reason we’ve structured the groups to include at least one “tech lead” who is also part of the technical working group is to help minimise this challenge. We aim to provide training to these tech leads by embedding them in some of the work we are doing at Steno Aarhus, where we have been implementing many of these practices.
Another major challenge will be coordinating tasks and work between IT systems that often don’t work well together or are suboptimally designed for cross-institution collaboration. This is one reason we’ve decided to establish the technical working group, so that we can minimise the impact these issues have on completing the project deliverables.