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Beginnings of an idea: How I think STC should approach initiatives

by techcommdood on June 22, 2010

All this RFP talk on Twitter and on the SIG Leaders mailing list has got me to thinking: How can STC efficiently plan, track, and implement initiatives?

The RFP process is old-school. It’s slow. It’s tedious. STC Board doesn’t have time; they need to be attending to Board matters. STC Office doesn’t have time; they need to be running the behind the scenes stuff.

So what to do? I think I’ve got it. Use the OpenSource project framework.

Use a central posting board for all initiatives, let members sign up to work on them (first to sign up is a champion for the initiative). When an initiative sits without a champion for too long, offer a bounty. It could be STC swag, books, free webinar passes, or free membership.

I think this idea has promise, but I haven’t had the time to completely develop it yet. So I’m putting it out there for all to think about. I’d love to hear your thoughts!

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Reviewing Performance Beyond Project Metrics

May 15, 2009 Management

When people think about performance reviews, especially in these days of running lean and mean, thoughts turn to quantitative project metrics. Was the deadline met? By what margin? How productive were you? But many times I’ve seen and heard that the qualitative inspection is ignored.
Let’s face it, evaluating the quantitative aspects of an employee’s job [...]

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