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10 changes: 9 additions & 1 deletion paper.tex
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While all of the above development services can be flexibly performed either at the RSE hub or its spokes, there are advantages of having a hub in the process:
It allows building up highly specialized technical expertise with a long term perspective and reuse it across the entire institution.
Examples of topics that would benefit from such expertise pooling are \eg mobile app development (University of Manchester: https://research-it.manchester.ac.uk/services/mobile-development-service-mds/ - use as \#SuccessStory?) and UI/UX development.
Examples of topics that would benefit from such expertise pooling are \eg mobile app development and UI/UX development.

RSE departments that offer development services at all scales have proven to be a success story at many research institutions and have rapidly grown in size due to the influx of third party funding.
Notable examples are \eg Manchester [REF], Notre-Dame [REF], STANFORD, Princeton~\autocite{Cosden2022}.
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Founded in January 2017, the Research Computing department of Princeton University has experienced a tremendous growth from the initial two FTEs to a total of 18 FTEs in the span of five years~\autocite{Cosden2022}.
This growth is based on a continuous influx of new funded projects once successful projects showcase the additional value of RSE services to researchers.

[Success Story]
The University of Manchester Software and Data Science group has successfully established specialized development services within their institution:
The "Mobile Development Service" \autocite{manchester_mobile} team consists of RSEs that focus solely on developing and deploying mobile apps.
Without a central RSE department to anchor such specialized expertise, it would probably be infeasible to establish such a service.
Also, having this expertise centralized allows for synergies in the deployment procedure for mobile apps:
The RSE department can create institutional accounts with the app stores and manage the time consuming deployment process including hard-to-setup procedures like code signing.
Besides the technical benefits of this central deployment procedure, the institution will also benefit from the increased visibility and potentially be able to build a brand with its technological output.

\subsection{Teaching Services}

A central RSE department can provide or organize training for researchers and decentralized RSEs in an institution.
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version = {1.0},
doi = {10.15497/rda00050},
url = {https://doi.org/10.15497/rda00050}
}
}

@online{manchester_mobile,
title={Mobile Development Service (MDS)},
url={https://research-it.manchester.ac.uk/services/mobile-development-service-mds/}
}
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