CSCCE

Project Management for Scientists Bootcamp (PMB)
2025-11-18 - 2025-12-12
This six-session bootcamp intensive offers a grounding in the basics of project management, tailored to apply to specific STEM contexts. This training draws upon a core text, The Harvard Business Review Project Management Handbook by Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez, with materials contextualized for STEM scenarios and applied to custom STEM case studies by CSCCE staff.
Over the course of this training, participants use CSCCE-created templates to create a Project Canvas describing the three key domains of a project (Foundation, People, and Creation) and the three building blocks of each domain (which include the project’s purpose, benefits, stakeholders, sponsor, and the plan for delivery and evaluation).
We use detailed STEM-specific case studies to support participants with completing the Project Canvas in small groups, with application sessions intended to aid participants in applying the concepts to their own project. In our experience, this provides the most value – supporting high fidelity acquisition of key concepts as well as dedicated time to make progress on individual projects with instructor support.
The Fall 2025 offering of the Project Management for Scientists Bootcamp (PMB25F) will run on Tuesdays and Fridays beginning Tuesday, 18 November until Friday, 12 December 2025.
The key dates are:

Tuesday lessons: 18 November; 2, 9 December at 12pm – 2pm EST / 5pm – 7pm UTC
Friday Co-Labs: 21 November; 5, 12 December at 12pm – 2pm EST / 5pm – 7pm UTC

*Note: Due to the Thanksgiving Holiday in the U.S., there will be no sessions on Tuesday, 25 November and Friday, 28 November.
Registration deadline: Tuesday, 28 October 2025
REGISTER FOR PMB25F

CSCCE QSS Session | Project managing timelines and workflows across your team and/or community
2025-12-03 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York)
Quarterly Skills Share (QSS) sessions are an opportunity for participants in the CSCCE Community Manager Certification Program to share insights and expertise about their roles as STEM community managers. Sessions last 90-minutes and include two or three presentations, with ample time for Q&A and discussion. This quarter, our speakers will be talking about the temporal aspects of community management: Project managing timelines and workflows across your team and/or community.
The successful, on-time delivery of community projects and activities regularly requires community managers to use project management tools and strategies to coordinate work. In this Quarterly Skills Share session, we’ll discuss tools and tactics for managing projects both within a staff team and across a community of volunteers, with a particular emphasis on time-dependent, deadline-driven workflows. This session will draw on themes from all of the multi-week courses in CSCCE’s Community Manager Certification Program, connecting the dots between effective content and communication, engagement strategy, project management, and documentation.
Speakers

Pooneh Sabouri, Project Manager for STEP UP, Florida International University
Jody Peters, Community Manager for the Ecological Forecasting Initiative, University of Notre Dame
Saranjeet Kaur Bhogal, Research Software Engineer, Imperial College London

This is an invitation-only event.

CSCCE December Community Call: Annual community potluck
2025-12-16 11:00 - 12:00
As in years past, our December community call is an opportunity to close out the year in reflection and intention setting. The call will be roughly divided into three “courses,” with participants encouraged to “bring a dish to share” – in other words, our collective contributions will create a unique gathering, which you can expect to include reflection prompts, gentle activities, and opportunities to discuss and set intentions for the year ahead.
Specifically, please bring a dessert to share this year: something that inspired you in some way over the last 12 months. Some suggestions for what to bring include:

A book or article
A podcast series or episode
A poem, quote, or song lyric
A piece of music or new (to you!) artist
A TV show or movie
A recipe
A painting

You can find more information about the event in this blog post: https://www.cscce.org/2025/11/19/decembers-community-call-seventh-annual-cscce-community-potluck/
Zoom link to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88123402630?pwd=[REDACTED]

CSCCE Community Tools Trial: Zulip
2026-01-21 11:00 - 12:30 | https://us02web.zoom.us/meetings/83142974212/invitations?signature=diQ6rsI45PPUaynUdY0FO6enNS6XlFvZ2Eu8FmNgsZc
Zulip is an open source platform, similar to Slack, that supports community engagement through threaded discussions and curated channels. It is growing in popularity in STEM, and within our community of practice there is a collective interest in learning more about the platform, as well as several resident experts willing to demo Zulip and answer questions.
Zoom link to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/meetings/83142974212/invitations?signature=diQ6rsI45PPUaynUdY0FO6enNS6XlFvZ2Eu8FmNgsZc
So, we’re bringing back our community Tools Trials format to facilitate a conversation about Zulip! Our panel of Zulip experts includes:

Samantha Wittke, CSC-IT Center for Science
Danny Garside, Digital Research Academy
Maria Doyle, Bioconductor
Philip Durbin, Dataverse
Rory Sawyer, OpenRefine

They’ll each share a brief demo or presentation to highlight the features of Zulip, and then they’ll all be available to answer any questions you might have about the platform.
CSCCE Tools Trials are free events that are open to anyone convening communities in STEM, and this session is perfect for you if you:

Are interested in learning more about setting up Zulip as a new community platform
Want to learn more about what it takes to transition a community from Slack to Zulip
Already run a Zulip community, but are interested in “advanced” features such as integrating bots
Want to get to know your fellow scientific community managers

We intend for this to be the first in a short series of Tools Trials focusing on open-source tools for community engagement. Please check our Events calendar for future events, and/or reach out to info@cscce.org if you have a suggestion of a platform to trial.
