Managing multiple projects is a hard task. Within the Biomics Platform, we manage about 200 projects a year. Within the SALSA group, we deal with various daily tasks and issues: analysing genomic data, helping users in solving their sequencing problems, working with the wetlab, managing our submission website, etc. Overall, our work is made of hundreds of tasks that we have to cope with. Not all of them are reported in projects management tools. Yet, we try to keep tracks of all major issues that take more than an hour. This could also be be software development, web development, etc. I have to admit, this is quite challenging. Yet, I was glad to see today that we are catching up with our daily tasks thanks to automatisation that we have in place in 2019.

In this figure, starting in March 2019, we started with 240 issues !! All openned projects and tasks that had to be done. Half of them are biomics projects per se, that is projects related to NGS sequencing. Others are sub tasks or pure dry-lab tasks (e.g., understanding the failure of transfered data, implementing a new pipeline, etc). Little by little, we started to close projects (April 2019).

From April to June, we put in place lots of new software, in particular we started to manage the data in a systematic way. It took us some time. This was also a period spent in teaching others how to use common projects management tools.