Workflow cycle inspired from Integrated Safety Management
The Integrated Safety Management (ISM) [1] cycle is a process to ensure the best safety precaution when performing a work. One should obviously do their best to follow such safety oriented method, in addition, the cyclic workflow can be adapted to other activities.
The basic of ISM is to follow the steps:
1Plan,
2Execute,
3Feedback and improve,
4Repeat.
This is clearly the guideline to follow when developing a new setup (or analysis method), preparing a publication or presentation (in that case, the first Execution would be a rehearsal, or a review by collaborators), run an experiment (the first loops would be to test until confidence in the method and setup).
In fact, many scientists already follow (without realizing it) this cycle when preparing experiments, or conducting analysis.
In the context of this manuscript, we are at the junction of the Execute and Feedback steps on the analysis code: It has been executed once, the first results and critics are in, and we are planning improvements.
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