Managing Agile Researchers

Client: Ben Searle, TechWolf <ben@techwolf.be>

Software companies use agile project management to ensure that a backlog of feature requests is implemented in a timely way. Universities are not so agile, but often employ people with a wide range of technical skills, including computer officers and research engineers. Your task is to use natural language processing methods to automatically collect and classify skill areas from GitHub and StackOverflow accounts associated with Cambridge staff, and match these against feature requirements in a backlog of requests such as “collect lecture feedback”, “improve performance of video download on Android” and so on. It’s likely that web pages or research publications associated with the individuals will provide further natural language clues to relevant application areas.