risks.qmd

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title: "Risks"
description: Potential risks, barriers, and challenges in Work Package 1.
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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.