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![]() Table of ContentsAUGUST WEEK 1 - 2008(in order of importance)back to main page WE DO, WE WIN:
LONG: Host a KT retreat for 3 days in Wisconsin METRIC: n/a STRETCH: n/a COMPLETION: 70% RELATED GOAL: n/a REVIEW: TK 8/7/08 - Back from our retreat today, lots of great stuff, next step is to get the notes online and talk out with other team members.
LONG: Define and Post Week 2 tickets for RR and post onto UNFUD METRIC: Posted by Friday STRETCH: n/a COMPLETION: RELATED GOAL: #a1M REVIEW: TK 8/6/08 - KT defined the next round of tickets on the gdoc and I'll post to UNFUD today.
LONG: Define the first paid feature, send mock up to Erika to get ready to send out next week. METRIC: Mock up done by Friday STRETCH: n/a COMPLETION: 60% RELATED GOAL: #a3M REVIEW: TK 8/6/08 - WE defined the feature. Now need to finalize our sketch and send to Erika for full mock up. Also need to check with Scott to make sure it can be done.
LONG: The Military program is on Friday and make sure to go back over all the slides for both programs. METRIC: n/a STRETCH: n/a COMPLETION: 60% RELATED GOAL: #b8M REVIEW: TK 8/6/08 - Talked out both programs with Kevin, now need to finalize for program.
LONG: Newsletters sent out by end of week. METRIC: Sent out no later than Sunday. STRETCH: Sent out by Thursday. COMPLETION: 60% RELATED GOAL: #a4M REVIEW: TD - 8/5/08 - Just need to plug in upcoming features and videos for new features, then format. TK 8/6/08 - Talked with Tania and we are still waiting on the classes feature before sending out. Tania is going to work on vids though. TD 8/10/08 - Finished the demo portion of all videos except for Help because it doesn't seem to be working (sent bug screencasts to Tom). Just need to get my video camera to do the notebook scribbling parts. BETTER DO THESE:
LONG: Greg H. needed more info for the RR Research project, so we need to supply him with info as needed METRIC: Contact by Friday STRETCH: n/a COMPLETION: 80% RELATED GOAL: #b2M REVIEW: TK 8/6/08 - Sent Greg's email on to Kevin and Kevin will follow up.
LONG: Come up with better way to track project completion and implement - should have better adoption (among us) and take less time to fill out and review. METRIC: Implemented by Sunday. STRETCH: COMPLETION: n/a RELATED GOAL: n/a REVIEW: TD - 8/5/08 - http://www.swiftkick. wikispaces.net/Prioritization_ Testing TK 8/7/08 - In thinking about this, I'm not too sure we need more done for right now, we are a small teams and if this works for the 80% solution, lets keep it.
LONG: Post regularly on the SL blog. METRIC: 2 posts per week. STRETCH: 3 posts per week. COMPLETION: 100% RELATED GOAL: #b1Q REVIEW: TD - 8/5/08 - Post #1 up. TD - 8/07/08 - Post #2 up.
LONG: Get in touch with student governments from different colleges and ask them to recommend writers. METRIC: Contact 15 more student governments by end of week. Find 2 new writers. STRETCH: Find 3 new writers, have 1 write a post by end of week. COMPLETION: 100% + RELATED GOAL: #b1Q REVIEW: TD - 8/5/08 - Facebook messaged student governments until Facebook accused me of spamming and threatened to ban me. Got 4 interested students though and set up 2 today. TD - 8/10/08 - Nick Chapa (UCLA) wrote a great post already that we'll have up on Monday. I've also found 3 more writers who say they are in 100%. I've added two of them (Steve DeSiena from Hunter and Mike Sharp from Ohio State) to the wiki.
LONG: update Conference sheet and start submitting METRIC: STRETCH: COMPLETION: RELATED GOAL: n/a REVIEW: ONLY IF WE CAN:#b5M
LONG: Review Rowan's work and package everything together to send into Tax guy for 07 METRIC: QB files received back from Rowan by Friday to be ready to go to tax guy next week. STRETCH: n/a COMPLETION: RELATED GOAL: #b5M REVIEW: TK 8/7/08 - Emma sent me the files, just need to review them.
LONG: Add more tools and videos to the wiki. METRIC: 1 more tool added to each section by end of week. 2 more videos added. STRETCH: 3 videos added. COMPLETION: RELATED GOAL: #a2Q, #b1Q REVIEW: TD - 8/10/08 - finished demo portions but haven't had camera this week to do scribble notebook portion. Added stuff to RSS page though. JULY WEEK 5 - 2008(in order of importance)back to main page WE DO, WE WIN:
LONG: Post all the tickets on UNFUD for the first 3 weeks of August. METRIC: 3 weeks posted STRETCH: Up to end of August posted COMPLETION: 75% RELATED GOAL: #a3M, #a1Q REVIEW: TK 7/28/08 - started working on gdoc for timeline. kevin is also working on it. TK 7/29/08 - Kevin put up a mock up of the timeline. We'll review and send to erika tomorrow. TK 7/30/08 - Talked out Timeline with Kevin, organzied it, and sent to Erika for Mock ups TK 7/31/08 - Organized the Gdoc for the next round of tickets TK 8/3/08 - Well put up tickets for next week
LONG: For the month we only need 3 more schools. Find 3 more who push to their regular students. METRIC: 3 schools push STRETCH: 4 schools push COMPLETION: 75% RELATED GOAL: #a2M, #a2Q REVIEW: TK 7/31/08 - Was trying to look at the excel doc, but there is an error in downloading. Waiting on Scott. TK 8/3/08 - Loyola Pushed to Reg. Students. Even though I didn't get 3 for this week, we do have our 7 for the month.
LONG: Map out a rough agenda for the upcoming retreat and review. METRIC: Rough draft down by friday STRETCH: n/a COMPLETION: 100% RELATED GOAL: all REVIEW: TK 7/29/08 - Wrote up an outline for the retreat on Gdoc. Sent Kevin an invite. TK 8/3/08 - Have print outs and ready to go
LONG: Talk with each person to set up goals for the month with corresponding metrics METRIC: Goals Posted on Friday STRETCH: n/a COMPLETION: 80% RELATED GOAL: n/a REVIEW: TD 7/31/08 - Spoke with TK today - will update August goals tomorrow. TK 7/31/08 - Wrote out most of the August goals. Emailed SK team to get goals for August ready. TK 8/3/08 - Talked it out with Tania, will try and talk out today with Emma. I started formating the goals
LONG: Take all the pieces we have and finalize them METRIC: Done by friday STRETCH: Submit to Facebook Fund COMPLETION: 0% RELATED GOAL: n/a REVIEW: TK 7/29/08 - Asked kevin for the most current stuff, so i could look at it tomorrow TK 8/3/08 - Kevin said he couldn't email out, never did anything with this
LONG: All sections of FAQ complete and ready to be used by Meebo person. METRIC: All sections completed by Tuesday. 1 other person does a full walk through of RR and post Q & A on the Wiki if needed. STRETCH: 2 people do a walk through. COMPLETION: 100% RELATED GOAL: #b1Q REVIEW: All done. TD - 7/27/08 - Unlinked wiki from main RR + SK pages, redid all links, finished leader and student sections: http:// faq .swiftkick. wikispaces.net TK 7/28/08 - added more questions. TD 7/29/08 - added more questions, added more answers, put in s'more links. so close, I can see the finish line! TD 7/31/08 - I think... I think it's done. I just need to make sure 100% of the links are working. I've also put together the brief user FAQ and emailed it to Tom (along with a suggested template for the Meebo Operator to use).
LONG: Newsletter sent out by end of week, complete with new cool tool video. METRIC: Sent out no later than Sunday. STRETCH: Sent out by Thursday. COMPLETION: 60% RELATED GOAL: #a4M REVIEW: Just need to plug in upcoming features and videos for new features, then format. TD - 7/27/08 - Brainstorming going on here: http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=ddzcr3qd_61hk7mj5hr&hl=en TK 7/30/08 - Collected the data for Augustana to use them as a case study for the admin newsletter TD - 7/31/08 - Discussed with Tom today. Will do rough draft tomorrow. TK 7/31/08 - Also agreed to send this out next week, after classess are done. TD 8/1/08 - Reviewed draft, added changes.
LONG: Book travel for August METRIC: all travel books for first 3 weeks STRETCH: all travel booked for first 4 weeks COMPLETION: TASKS INVOLVED: -Conduct all PPS's possible -purchase, record, itinerize flights RELATED GOAL: #a5M REVIEW: 7/31/08: EJ: Booked 8 or 9 flights, plus some hotels and rental cars and laidout August 8/4/08: EJ: All flights booked for August, now working on hotels-rental cars
LONG: finish pre-program surveys for upcoming August gigs and up to 2nd week in Sept METRIC: 6 STRETCH: 8 COMPLETION: TASKS INVOLVED: - contact schools to set-up times - call and conduct survey RELATED GOAL: #b4M REVIEW: 7/30/08:EJ; Conducted 4 more at least (many are emails back and forth)! 8/4/08 EJ: 2 more done. Moving on to Sept. BETTER DO THESE:
LONG: Pick and setup Meebo person and they are actively doing the live help for Red Rover. METRIC: Person takes live IMs by firday STRETCH: n/a COMPLETION: 100% RELATED GOAL: #c2M, #a5Q REVIEW: TK 7/28/08 - Narrowed Meebo list down to 3 people. Will pick tomorrow TK 7/29/08 - Picked one person and will train them tomorrow TK 7/30/08 - Trained Meebo person and set them on on Meebo. She started working today
LONG: Finalize the role for each member of the SK team and then post the descriptions on the wiki. METRIC: Posted on Wiki by weeks end. STRETCH: n/a COMPLETION: 45% RELATED GOAL - #c2M, #b3Q REVIEW: TK 7/28/08 - spent some time laying out job roles for people. Next step is to do the sk org chart. TK 8/3/08 - Delayed Org Chart until retreat.
LONG: Finish looking at DFT and start looking at MSFB for gigs coming up. METRIC: DFT finished, MSFB 1 hour spend review and brainstorming new ideas STRETCH: n/a COMPLETION: 60% RELATED GOAL: #b4Q REVIEW: TK 7/31/08 - Wrote out entire DFT for Military. Took 2 hours on Gdoc.
LONG: Post regularly on the SL blog. METRIC: 2 posts per week. STRETCH: 3 posts per week. COMPLETION: 100% RELATED GOAL: #b1Q REVIEW: 2 posts up. TD 7/29/08 - Post #1 is up. TD 8/1/08 - Post #2 is up.
LONG: Add more tools and videos to the wiki. METRIC: 1 more tool added to each section by end of week. 2 more videos added. STRETCH: 3 videos added. COMPLETION: 80% RELATED GOAL: #a2Q, #b1Q WHO: Tania REVIEW: still need to add some videos. TD 7/29/08 - Just got an email saying the messages I sent Tom with the video attachments days ago failed... resending with YouSendit. TD 7/31/08 - Got vimeo login info from Tom. Videos uploading. Will have them up tomorrow. TD 8/1/08 - Added videos to wiki. Added some more tools. Need to add some more videos. ONLY IF WE CAN:
LONG: Accountant has updated our Quickbooks with 100% of 2007 expenses/rev. METRIC: Answer 75% of questions STRETCH: 100% done by weeks end COMPLETION: RELATED GOAL - #b3M REVIEW: TK 7/28/08 - gave some answers to Emma for the accountant EJ 7/29/08 - sent Tom's answers to accountant who acknowledged receipt and asked for 2008 pdfs EJ 8/4/08: Sent 08 pdfs - received email with questions
LONG: Create a plan to piece together and manage the different pieces of RR and SK on Facebook. METRIC: Plan created and implemented by the end of the week. STRETCH: n/a COMPLETION: ? RELATED GOAL: #b1Q WHO: Tania REVIEW: Emailed Tom, haven't discussed yet. TD 7/31/08 - Emailed Tom with my thoughts.
LONG: Get in touch with student governments from different colleges and ask them to recommend writers. METRIC: Contact 15 student governments by end of week. Find 2 new writers. STRETCH: Find 3 new writers, have 1 write a post by end of week. COMPLETION: 80% RELATED GOAL: #b1Q REVIEW: Contacted lots of people but only got "too busy not please contact me in a few months" responses. TD 7/31/08 =/ Hearing back from lots of people but all of them saying they can't do.
LONG: Plug in all financial numbers from SF into Mac Numbers for August till Dec 2008 METRIC: Final plan done by Friday. STRETCH: n/a COMPLETION: 100% RELATED GOAL: #b2Q REVIEW: TK 7/29/08 - I reworked the current financial plan through Nov. Sent to Kevin to talk about.
LONG: Once 2007 is Reconsiliated, Take the data and give it to our tax person. METRIC: QB data delivered to our tax person by firiday. STRETCH: n/a COMPLETION: RELATED GOAL: #b3M, REVIEW: TK 8/3/08 - Didn't get the papers from Rowan, still waiting, pushed to next week. JULY WEEK 4 - 2008(in order of importance)back to main page WE DO, WE WIN:
LONG: Get 3 more schools to push Red Rover to their regular students. METRIC: 3 schools push STRETCH: 4 schools COMPLETION: 33% RELATED GOAL - #a2M, #a2Q REVIEW: TK 7/21/08 - Augustana pushed to regular students today. 2 more to go! TK 7/22/08 - Nothing new here TK 7/24/08 - Nothing new - UCA uploaded an excel doc. TK 7/27/08 - Tried to export the excel doc from Superadmin to get an idea of # of reg. students, but gave error. Put ticket in. Waiting for Scott.
LONG: Define the road map for the next 3-4 weeks (timeline, classes, facebook badge, messaging, rss) METRIC: All Tickets for the roadmap are put on UNFUD STRETCH: n/a COMPLETION: 60% RELATED GOAL - #a3M, #a1Q REVIEW: TD - 7/20/08 - Added mock ups to doc with UNFUD prioritization. TK 7/21/08 - Worked on classes, waiting to get some more feedback. TK 7/22/08 - I think we've finalized what classes will be, so tomorrow I'll mock up and post to unfud TK 7/23/08 - Added tickets/mockups for Classes, RSS, and Facebook App. TK 7/24/08 - Nothing new - waiting for Scott to finish with some tickets. Will work on timeline outline tomorrow. TK 7/27/08 - Scott has enough tickets to bring him into the first week of Aug. Next up is Timeline.
LONG: Newsletter for regular students is sent out METRIC: sent out no later than Thursday. STRETCH: n/a COMPLETION: DEFERRED RELATED GOAL - #a4M REVIEW: TD - 7/20/08 - Emailed Tom questions about newsletter. TK 7/22/08 - We are going to wait to send this out until next month, with all the other newsletter. TD 7/24/08 - Started brainstorming contents of next newsletter. Will add to Google Doc tomorrow. TD 7/25/08 - Updated newsletter google doc with preliminary ideas for August newsletter: http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=ddzcr3qd_61hk7mj5hr&hl=en
LONG: Creating a new wiki for FAQ and having multiple people fill out Q and A. METRIC: 4 people do a full walk through of RR and post Q & A on the wiki STRETCH: 5 people COMPLETION: 60% RELATED GOAL - #b1Q REVIEW: TD - 7/20/08 - Emailed Tom thoughts on organization of FAQ. TK 7/22/08 - Spend an hour doing some FAQs. Tania is going to take over. TD - 7/24/08 - Nothing today. Will complete this tomorrow. TD 7/25/08 - Edited the Student Leader section of the FAQ ( http:// faq .swiftkick. wikispaces.net/ ), will finish up with student section tomorrow. BETTER DO THESE:
LONG: Review the DFT and MSFB slides for tweaks and set up for upcoming August gigs. METRIC: Submit slides for both to the Army Program by the 25th. STRETCH: n/a COMPLETION: 50% RELATED GOAL - #b4Q WHO: Tom, Kevin REVIEW: TK 7/22/08 - Nothing new TK 7/24/08 - Spent a lot of time going over BOSS program, looking at Kevin's slides, and reformulating the speech. Will be done with rough tomorrow. TK 7/27/08 - Sent DFT to the BOSS people after reviewing it and merging with Kevin's slides.
LONG: Updating the group excel doc for all the schools in RR and any new ones that come in for the week. METRIC: All current schools in RR updated STRETCH: All new schools updated COMPLETION: 100% RELATED GOAL - #a2M, #a2Q WHO: Rosalina REVIEW: TK 7/22/08 - Rosalina is working away every day to make sure the schools are populated TK 7/23/08 - We had a little hiccup with these today, but all is fixed now and Rosalina is back on track. TK 7/27/08 - Totally up to date here.
LONG: Reorganize our recommended tools by tool type rather than name, and add demos. METRIC: Reorganized by end of week. 2 videos added. STRETCH: 3 videos added. COMPLETION: 90% RELATED GOAL -#a2Q, #b1Q WHO: Tania REVIEW: TD 7/24/08 - Started videos today. Will put up by tomorrow. TD 7/25/08 - Couldn't get to it today =/ It's at the top of my list for tomorrow morning. Doing Weebly, Google Calendars, and Wikispaces. TD 7/26/08 - Emailed Tom with Google Calendars and Wikispaces. Weebly in the works. TD 7/27/08 - Reorganized tools according to value added. Just waiting for Tom to post the vids to vimeo or give me log in info so I can add the videos to the page.
LONG: Create a plan to piece together and manage the different pieces of RR and SK on Facebook. METRIC: Plan created and implemented by the end of the week. STRETCH: n/a COMPLETION: 0% :( RELATED GOAL - #b1Q WHO: Tania REVIEW: TD 7/24/08 - Nothing on this yet. Will put my brain to work on it tomorrow. TD 7/25/08 - Didn't get to this yet either. TD 7/27/08 - Sorry, still didn't get to this. Moved to next week.
LONG: Get in touch with more students and get them to contribute to the blog. METRIC: Contact 50 students by end of week. Find 2 new writers. STRETCH: Find 3 new writers, have 1 write a post by end of week. COMPLETION: 100% RELATED GOAL - #b1Q REVIEW: TD 7/24/08 - Emailed and called some student leaders I know, but most are away. Have two promising leads though. Will expand search. TD 7/25/08 - Nick Chappa said he'd definitely write for the blog. Looking for more. TD 7/26/08 - Steve Silvestri from Hunter College said he'd write! TD 7/27/08 - Contacted over 50 students at this point. Have 2 signed up to write. No posts yet, but they are excited to start. My plan now is to start contacting random student governments at different colleges.
LONG: Post regularly on the SL blog. METRIC: 2 posts per week. STRETCH: 3 posts per week. COMPLETION: 100+% RELATED GOAL - #b1Q REVIEW: TD 7/22/08 - Post #1 is up. TD 7/24/08 - Post #2 is up. Also wrote article for APCA Journal that I might use as a post later this week (if you guys think that's fine). TD 7/25/08 - First article wasn't a fit, so it will be post #3 for tomorrow. Wrote new article. Waiting to hear from Tom on whether I should fix it up. TD 7/27/08 - Post #3 is up.
LONG: Finalize the role for each member of the SK team and then post the descriptions on the wiki. METRIC: Posted on Wiki by weeks end. STRETCH: n/a COMPLETION: 35% RELATED GOAL - #c2M, #b3Q REVIEW: TK 7/21/08 - Worked on Org Chart and more on Job Roles. TK 7/24/08 - Was on my list today, but didn't do it :( TK 7/27/08 - Worked on this but didn't finish the job roles.
LONG: Scott says we are about a week out from finishing the test writing, so goal is to make this the last week. METRIC: Tests written by the end of the week. STRETCH: n/a COMPLETION: RELATED GOAL - #b2M REVIEW: TK 7/27/08 - Need to check with Scott to see where he ended the week with this one.
LONG: Book travel for the first 2.5 weeks METRIC: all travel books for first 2.5 weeks STRETCH: all travel booked for first 3 weeks COMPLETION: TASKS INVOLVED: -Conduct all PPS's possible -purchase, record, itinerize flights RELATED GOAL: #a5M REVIEW: 7/23/08 -now have ok to book flights from Tom 7/28/08 - Asked Kevin about Madison and San Antonio cities for departures... need to hear back. Booked flights for Kevin's Aug 20th, and for Tom Aug 11th, 12th 25th. Booked hotels and rental cars for Tom for 12th gig. Entered in everything booked into Itineraries on GoogleDocs
LONG: finish pre-program surveys for upcoming August gigs METRIC: 6 STRETCH: 8 COMPLETION: 75% TASKS INVOLVED: - contact schools to set-up times - call and conduct survey RELATED GOAL: #b4M REVIEW: 7/23/08 - conducted 3 more PPS's 7/27/08 - conducted 1 more, had 53 calls/emails for sales, many to setup PPS's and logistics, marketing, etc. ONLY IF WE CAN:
LONG: Create and implement a plan to cover the Live Help (Meebo) so it can be covers when K and T are traveling. METRIC: Meebo covered by the end of the week. STRETCH: n/a COMPLETION: 20% RELATED GOAL - #a5Q REVIEW: TK 7/22/08 - I called some companies to see about the option. One company wouldn't be able to do it as that is not their business model. The other one, I left a message. TK 7/23/08 - Talked to one for company, they said that i need to talk with someone else, waiting for the call. TK 7/24/08 - I posted job listings on Odesk, Guru, and Elance and have several people interested. I'll check it out tomorrow.
LONG: Finalize the fall financial plan and review for cash flow (post on blog???) METRIC: Financial plan finished by Wednesday and then review by end of the week. STRETCH: n/a COMPLETION: 50% RELATED GOAL - #b2Q REVIEW: TK 7/23/08 - Reviewed our Financial Projections Execl Doc with Emma, she understands it and will update on regular basis.
LONG: Create a short list for people we would like to be on our advisory board. METRIC: Short list is created by weeks end. STRETCH: Short list is contacted to ask to be on the team. COMPLETION: RELATED GOAL - #a4Q REVIEW:
LONG: Accountant has updated our Quickbooks with 50% of 2007 expenses/rev. METRIC: 50% done by weeks end. STRETCH: 75% done by weeks end COMPLETION: RELATED GOAL - #b3M REVIEW: TK 7/21/08 - Rowan said he is up to May. 7/23/08 - EJ - chatted with Rowan and answered some questions, will send Oct Bank Statement PDF 7/27/08 - EJ Rowan sent final questions, sent email to Tom about who should answer them. JULY WEEK 3 - 2008(in order of importance)back to main page WE DO, WE WIN:SHORT - Personal Messages to RR Admins LONG: Send out a personal email/phone call to all the admins in the system to check in and see how they are doing METRIC: 90% of admins emailed STRETCH: 100% emailed COMPLETION: 95% complete TASKS INVOLVED: - Compile List of Admins - Respond RELATED GOAL: #a2M, #a2Q, #b1Q WHO: Tom REVIEW: TK 7/14/08 - Sent an email to all admins, got responses back. Followed up with most of them. TK 7/16/08 - Followed up with all that were in my inbox, every seems to be doing well and on track. Not much more I can do right now. TK 7/17/08 - I'm still continuing to follow up with them. SHORT - 3 New Schools Pushed to Students LONG: Find and help the next 3 schools to push RR to their students METRIC: 3 schools pushed to students STRETCH: 4 schools COMPLETION: 33% TASKS INVOLVED: - Define top 5 schools - Contact and support - Follow up RELATED GOAL: #a2M, #a2Q WHO: Tom REVIEW: TK 7/14/08 - Nothing new here, will define the top 5 schools tomorrow based on feedback from emails. TK 7/15/08 - Got lots of emails today about when schools are pushing live, but there was a problem with the server since the godaddy bill wasn't paid, so we miss several hours of gettings schools up. All is back now, and I'll follow up with all the schools in the morn. TK 7/16/08 - Nothing new, several gave me an idea of when they were pushing to students, but no one seemed to say this week was good, cause most schools are on vacay. TK 7/17/08 - GSCU pushed to it's students today! SHORT - Reorganize UNFUD Milestones LONG: We got off track in terms of Milestones, so we need to reorganize them first before putting up new tickets for July/Aug. Cut the fat to meet the deadline, don't extend the deadline. METRIC: Milestones reorganized on Monday. STRETCH: n/a COMPLETION: 100% TASKS INVOLVED: - Talk with Scott about what is done - Cut the fat - Redo Milestones RELATED GOAL: #a3M, #a1Q, #a3Q WHO: Tom/Scott REVIEW: TK 7/14/08 - Talked with scott and reorgnized UNFUD SHORT - JULY/AUG RR Road Map on UNFUD LONG: Take the Gdoc road map and put them into tickets on UNFUD with attached Milestones METRIC: Milestones added through AUG STRETCH: n/a COMPLETION: 90% TASKS INVOLVED: - Finalize Privatization of Road Map with Tania/Scott - Create Screencasts Tania - Post on UNFUD - Attach Milestones - Review with Scott RELATED GOAL: #a3M, #a1Q WHO: Tom/Scott/Tania REVIEW: TK 7/14/08 - Did a few screenshots today, but wanted to talk with Tania before doing more and posting the tickets. Tomorrow I will post tickets to UNFUD. TK 7/15/08 - Talked with Tania and did screenshots and posted Tickets for Scott to work on. Need to do another round of UNFUD tomorrow TK 7/16/08 - Added more tickets to UNFUD. Scott's team is knockin em out, so I will work on some more tomorrow for the next week. TK 7/17/08 - Added more tickets to UNFUD. Looks like we are on track for at least till mid August. Tomorrow I'll put up a few more tickets. SHORT - PPS LONG: Conduct 6 pre-program surveys for upcoming August gigs METRIC: 6 STRETCH: 8 COMPLETION: 75% TASKS INVOLVED: - contact schools to set-up times - call and conduct survey RELATED GOAL: #b4M WHO: Emma REVIEW: EJ-7/16/08 - conducted 3 surveys, contacted 5 schools, setup 2 PPS EJ 7/20/08 - conducted 2 more surveys, called 3 schools back BETTER DO THESE:SHORT - Decide Get Satisfaction vs User Suggest LONG: Look at Get Satisfaction and decide if that's what we should be using for our FAQ forums. METRIC: Review and Chose by Monday and given to Scott so he can incorp into RR Help Ticket STRETCH: n/a COMPLETION: 100% TASKS INVOLVED: - Review GS - Pick One - Review with Scott RELATED GOAL: #a3M, #a1Q, #b1Q WHO: Tom/Scott REVIEW: TK 7/15/08 - Looked at Get Satisfaciton and am going to stick with US for now. SHORT - Accountant Started on 2007 LONG: Give our new accountant Rowan the support to be working on 2007 with the goal to be done in 2 weeks. Intro Rowan to Emma and have her work with him to answer questions about how to categorize stuff. METRIC: Rowan is actively working by end of the week. STRETCH: n/a COMPLETION: 40% TASKS INVOLVED: - Check in with Rowan - Answer Questions - Follow up RELATED GOAL: #b3M, #a5Q WHO: Emma/Tom REVIEW: TK 7/15/08 - Been going back and forth with Rowan and he seems to be all set with the files. Now we just need to walk through what each piece means. Will try to do this tomorrow. TK 7/16/08 - Rowan is in and working. He is all set up. I introed him to Emma who will help him with questions about categorization. Other than than, it is just a matter of time now before he is done. SHORT - Project Manager Picked LONG: We have the list of To-Dos, now we need to finalize a person to take on the role of PM for Swift Kick and Red Rover. METRIC: 1 person chosen by the end of the week STRETCH: Person is doing this goal sheet next week and check ins with people COMPLETION: 90% TASKS INVOLVED: - Post Job on Odesk/Guru/Elance - Review everyone - Pick one person RELATED GOAL: #c2M, #a5Q, #b3Q WHO: Tom/Tania REVIEW: TK 7/14/08 - I updated the google doc with more info on each task. I am going to start by working with Rosalina so she can do a few of the task (Meebo and Excel Doc Support for RR) TK 7/15/08 - Tania is going to be taking some more of the tasks from the gdoc list TK 7/16/08 - I sent Rosalina up with some more work and showed her out to do it, so she is in and taking over the tasks. TK 7/17/08 - I looked over Tania's gdoc and think she will be able to take on several parts of SK. Waiting to hear back from her. TK 7/18/08 - I created a google doc to better define everyones role in SK. I think all that we are missing right now is someone to take over Meebo full time (hire a company?, but we need a good FAQ database to work with) and also maybe someone to do our RR Testing once tickets are up. SHORT - Define Tania's Role LONG: Tania needs a more defined role as to what her role is within SK and RR. METRIC: Gdoc created collaborativly with Tania STRETCH: n/a COMPLETION: 85% TASKS INVOLVED: - Meet with Tania about Role - Create Gdoc - Review and agree RELATED GOAL: #c2M, #a5Q, #b3Q WHO: Tom/Tania REVIEW: TK 7/14/08 - Email Tania to set up a meeting for tomorrow. TK 7/15/08 - Talked with Tania about her role. She is in charge of community leaison. She was going to put up a gdoc and then we would talk about pay. TK 7/16/08 - Nothing new. TK 7/17/08 - I looked over Tania's gdoc and think she will be able to take on several parts of SK. Waiting to hear back from her. TK 7/18/08 - We've defined her tasks and her official title is Community Liason for RR. SHORT - Book travel for August LONG: Book travel for the first 2.5 weeks METRIC: all travel books for first 2.5 weeks STRETCH: all travel booked for first 3 weeks COMPLETION: 25% TASKS INVOLVED: -Conduct all PPS's possible -purchase, record, itinerize flights RELATED GOAL: #a5M WHO: Emma REVIEW: EJ - 7/16/08 - can't book flights till get PPS's done, booked travel for Akron and Army Boss so far EJ 7/20/08 - holding off on booking till we have $. ONLY IF WE CAN:SHORT - Newsletter to the Regular Students LONG: Create content and send out a newsletter to all the regular students. We already sent one out to the Admins and Group Leaders, so the design is set, just a matter of content. METRIC: Sent out by end of the week. STRETCH: n/a COMPLETION: TASKS INVOLVED: - Define if needed - Write Content - Format - Get List from Scott - Send out RELATED GOAL: #a4M, #b1Q WHO: Tania/Tom REVIEW: 7/20/08 - Waiting to do a quickie discussion of the newsletter with Tom. SHORT - Plan for Pending Schools/Users Created LONG: We have a lot of students who are in the system but are in pending schools. We need a plan to work better from the ground up. How can we be more viral? METRIC: Plan created with actionable steps STRETCH: First 2 steps taken COMPLETION: TASKS INVOLVED: - Talk with Tania about issue - Create a plan - Create actionable items - Do first two items RELATED GOAL: #a2M, #a2Q WHO: Tania/Tom REVIEW: 7/20 - created doc to start brainstorming about this. Sent to Tom. JULY WEEK 2 - 2008(in order of importance)back to main page WE DO, WE WIN:SHORT - UX Round 3 LONG: UX Round 3 tickets loaded into UNFUD, Built, Checked, and Closed. METRIC: 95% of tickets closed STRETCH: 100% of the tickets closed COMPLETION - DEFERRED TASKS INVOLVED: - Define R3 - Prioritize - Post on UNFUD - Finish them - Review - Check off RELATED GOAL: #a1M WHO: Tania/Tom REVIEW: TK 7/7/08 - After organizing the next round of changes, we opted to not do a Round 3 of UX changes. In stead we are going to be working on the new features first. TK 7/13/08 - DEFERRED SHORT - 3 New Schools Pushed to Students LONG: Getting 3 most schools to have gone through all three steps of the sign up process to the point of inviting regular students in. METRIC: 3 schools inviting regular students STRETCH: 4 schools COMPLETION - 30% TASKS INVOLVED: - Creating a School Prioritization list - Target top 3 schools - Contact and support till done RELATED GOAL: #a2M WHO: Tom REVIEW: TK 7/7/08 - The schools are organized on the wiki based on stage, so now it is a matter of picking which to focus on and working with them. TK 7/8/08 - I am still waiting to get the newsletter out. I'll do it tomorrow, and then follow up with schools tomorrow afternoon and thursday. TK 7/13/08 - Ashland pushed to regular students, but that was it for this week. WashJeff is close. I also didn't follow up with emails to any admins after the newsletter. SHORT - New Features Road Map (July/Aug) LONG: Create a new features road map for the rest of july and into august. We are nearing the end of UX tweaks for now and want to build on some new features. METRIC: Road Map completed by the end of the week. STRETCH: Up to end of July posted on UNFUD COMPLETION - 60% TASKS INVOLVED: RELATED GOAL: #a3M WHO: Tom and Tania REVIEW: TK 7/7/08 - Laid out the next round of features on the gdoc. They need to be filled in with details. TK 7/8/08 - Didn't do anything new with this today. TK 7/13/08 - I laid out on the gdoc what the next round of features are in order of importance, but we fell behind on milestone completion, so no new tickets were put onto UNFUD. I also didn't do any screenshots for the features. SHORT - Send out first newsletter to group leaders and admins LONG: send out the first official newsletter for group leaders and admins METRIC: Newsletter goes out to by Thursday STRETCH: Also send out a newsletter to regular students COMPLETION - 100%!!! TASKS INVOLVED: - Finish design - Upload to Campaign Monitor - Export contact info from RR - Import into CM - Write text - Send Out RELATED GOAL: #a4M WHO: Tom REVIEW: TK 7/7/08 - Design is done. Need to write text and then create in HTML. TK 7/8/08 - Text is done, Tania is working on the video, Got the list from Scott. Goal is to sent this out tomorrow in the AM. TK 7/10/08 - The Admin and the Group Leader went out today! TK 7/13/08 - DONE! SHORT - Write scripts for RR Landing Page LONG: There are a couple links that need text written for them for the RR landing page. Such as TOS and About METRIC: Text written by Tuesday and giving to Scott STRETCH: n/a COMPLETION - 90% TASKS INVOLVED: - Write Text - Proof read - Give to Scott RELATED GOAL: #a1M WHO: Tom REVIEW: TK 7/7/08 - I finished all the text. I am still waiting on Adan for the student video. Not sure when that will happen. TK 7/8/08 - Still no word from Adan. I'll ping him again tomorrow on FB. TK 7/10/08 - Adan said he is working on the final version of the video and will get it to me soon. TK 7/13/08 - No word back from Adan. BETTER DO THESE:SHORT - Fall Logs Mapped out LONG: Check with all uncertain schools regarding who's speaking, Check Bridgewater to next gig flights METRIC: Contact 3 schools that are uncertain and 8 schools who their speaker is STRETCH: Contact the 3 schools plus let 15 schools know who their speaker is COMPLETION - 100% TASKS INVOLVED: - Deciding who would be ideal - Emailing uncertain schools - Marking/routing with replies RELATED GOAL: #b1M WHO: Emma REVIEW: EJ 7/10/08: Decided who will go where, send Tom list, emailed 9 schools mentioning their speaker TK 7/13/08 - all set on this one SHORT - Sales PPS LONG: Conduct first 6 pre-program surveys for August METRIC: 6 done STRETCH: 8 done for August COMPLETION - 50% TASKS INVOLVED: - Contacting schools to set-up phone appts - Conducting Surveys Filling out notes in SF RELATED GOAL: #b4M WHO: Emma REVIEW: EJ 7/10/08: Did 2 PPS's and setup times for 3 more, received many "out of office" replies to emails about it. TK 7/13/08 - called and left message for Eric, have 2 setup for Monday, sent our more emails. SHORT - Project Manager Setup and Going LONG: Setting up a PM for SK that knows their role and tasks/responsibilities clearly defined. METRIC: Job Description Defined / PM takes over the creation and writing of Week 3 Goals. Also hand over Odesk Team. STRETCH: n/a COMPLETION - 40% TASKS INVOLVED: - Finish Job Description - Agreement/Payment Terms - If needed set ups RELATED GOAL: #a5Q and #b3Q WHO: Tom REVIEW: TK 7/8/08 - I can't say i did more on this. I'm still debating on what to do. TK 7/13/08 - I defined what the tasks are for the PM, but haven't found the person for the job yet, not did I post on Odesk looking. I did make a commitment to find someone by next thursday. SHORT - Decide Get Satisfaction vs User Suggest LONG: What is the better system to use for RR. Look at both and make a decision because this will be a part of the new help link. METRIC: One Picked and given to Scott by before new help design goes up. STRETCH: n/a COMPLETION - 0% TASKS INVOLVED: - Review them - Pick one - Give to Scott RELATED GOAL: #b1Q WHO: Tom REVIEW: TK 7/8/08 - Didn't do anything yet. TK 7/13/08 - So far sticking with US, but didn't look at Get Satisfaction yet. ONLY IF WE CAN:SHORT - Schedule Tests and Server Switch LONG: Talk with scott to determine when we should officially schedule these to be done. METRIC: Schdueled and put on the road map STRETCH: n/a COMPLETION - 100% TASKS INVOLVED: - Talk with Scott - Put on Road Map for RR - UNFUD Tickets created RELATED GOAL: #b2M and #c1M WHO: Tom REVIEW: TK 7/7/08 - Scott has Joel working on the Writing Tests and we are going to push off switching the server until later, but don't have a date yet. TK 7/8/08 - Didn't talk to Scott about planning server switch yet. TK 7/13/08 - Tests are being written, scott says it can hold 2000+ simulatnious users, so that is a long ways off. No need to schedule now. DONE!!! SHORT - Import Bank Statements into Quickbooks LONG: Our taxes are due and so by the end of the week we want to have imported all our Bank Info into Quickbooks. METRIC: Bank Statements are imported into Qucikbooks and ready to be given to Tax Team STRETCH: QB given to tax team COMPLETION - 20% TASKS INVOLVED: - Set someone up to convert bank statements to excel - hire someone to take excel and import into QB RELATED GOAL: #b3M WHO: Tom REVIEW: TK 7/7/08 - Posted on Odesk for someone to take this one. Waiting for responses. TK 7/8/08 - Several people responded to the job listing on odesk. I contact the top ones, and will go from there. TK 7/13/08 - I hired a person to do the job and he has the files, He said he would set up everything and get back to me. I think he will start working next week and will probably take him about 2 weeks to do 2007. JULY WEEK 1 - 2008(in order of importance)back to main page WE DO, WE WIN:SHORT - UX Round 1 completed LONG - Finish all the fixes on unfuddle now with in the miles stones set. If milestone passes and stuff is not done, but it on pause and move on. METRIC - 95% of the list crossed off by week end STRETCH - 100% of list crossed off by week end TASKS INVOLVED: - Check in with Scott - 10 min - test RR - 1 hour - mark off UNFUD tickets - 10 min - Push to production - 10 min WGOAL - UX Round 1 and 2 for RR #a1W REVIEW: TK 7/3/08 - These are just about done. Just two more little tweaks to go and we will have 100% completed! TK 7/5/08 - We got 99% of the tickets done. There was only one tiny one that about too many exclamation points that I had to bump to the next round. SHORT - RR Adoption 1 School with Freshman in LONG - The focus is on Ashland, UCLA, and Disney. One of the three will push to students this week and so checking in with them. METRIC - 1 school pushes to freshman STRETCH - 2 schools push to freshman TASKS INVOLVED: - Finish UCLA Excel doc - 10 hours - Connect with Ashland, UCLA Disney about next steps - 1 hour - Get/Give them links to class of 2012 on Facebook - 1 hour WGOAL - RR Adoption with Freshman in #a2W REVIEW: TK 7/3/08 - UCLA uploaded their excel doc, and will push to student today, tomorrow. Talked with Ashland, they are all set, just not going to regular students yet. Talked to Disney and after we fixes some stuff for them, they are set, but didn't hear back yet. It looks like UCLA will be the first school to the contact incomings. TK 7/5/08 - UCLA pushed to it's students on July 4th. It started with the freshman on the facebook group class of 2012. SHORT - UX Round 2 on Unfuddle LONG - Organize and post tickets with corresponding milestones for Round 2 on UNFUD METRIC - All Tickets posted by week end STRETCH - n/a TASKS INVOLVED: - Organize Gdocs - 45 min - Mock Ups if needed - 30 min - Post to UNFUD - 20 min WGOAL - RR Adoption with Freshman in #a2W REVIEW: TK 7/3/08 - All tickets for R2 are up on UNFUD!!! SHORT - Newsletter Design Completed LONG - Have a completed Newsletter design by Erika done with feedback. METRIC - Completed design STRETCH - n/a TASKS INVOLVED: - Send rough to Erika 30 min - Erika Mock Up - 30 min - Ask people for feedback - 10 min - Send feedback to Erika - 10 min - Finish Newsletter - 20 min WGOAL - 1st Group Leader, Regular Student, and Admin Newsletter Sent #a4W REVIEW: TK 7/3/08 - The design is just about done, Erika is mocking up the last bits. She will post it on the SK host so we can edit it from there. I am not sure if this is the best solution vs using everything within a tool like constantcontact, but we'll see. TK 7/5/08 - Erika went on vacation before we were able to post the newsletter online, but it is just about done. SHORT - Newsletter Mailing System picked LONG - Review some sites for managing mailing systems and pick one to use METRIC - 1 system picked by weeks end STRETCH - n/a TASKS INVOLVED: - Review systems - 45 min - Sign up for one - 10 min - Set up design on system - 45 min - Ask Scott for emails - 1 hour - Import emails into system - 30 min WGOAL - 1st Group Leader, Regular Student, and Admin Newsletter Sent #a4W REVIEW: TK 7/3/08 - For now I was going to use our inhouse system. but that will need to change Erika suggested one and when i looked at it, it looked good. BETTER DO THESE:SHORT - Start mapping out Fall Schedule LONG - The first step is to find out who is doing what gigs METRIC - Determined what gigs are questionable and email them STRETCH - Create map for who is doing what TASKS INVOLVED: - Find questionable gigs - 45 min - Email questionable gigs - 1.5 hours - Mark in SF who is doing what gigs - 30 min WGOAL - Fall Schedule Mapped Out (Booking flights) #b1W REVIEW: TK 7/3/08 - Emma is on this one. She will have a check in later. I pulled her off this for a little to help with RR school excel docs. TK 7/5/08 - Emma mapped out all the ones that have certain speakers that we know of, marked "either" for open gigs, and will now email out to those uncertain schools - Also marked in SF the ones that were figured out. SHORT - Reply to current possible Programmers LONG - Reply to the emails in my inbox of programmers who contact me already METRIC - All replied to STRETCH - n/a TASKS INVOLVED: - Email programmers - 10 min WGOAL - RR Team Exploration #c2W REVIEW: TK 7/3/08 - Heard back from the Argentinian team, but Scott also has someone in mind. We are going to start with scotts person to test out and in the mean time keep a relationship open with the argentinian team. I haven't yet replied to the ones in my inbox, but none, i don't think, are what we are looking for. ONLY IF WE CAN:SHORT - Network for Accountant Help on odesk LONG - Find an accountant via Odesk by posting the job METRIC - Job Posted, VA submit STRETCH - 1 picked TASKS INVOLVED: - Post job on Odesk - 15 mins - Filter through Applicants - 20 mins - Pick one - 10 mins WGOAL - Outsource Accounting #b3W REVIEW: TK 7/3/08 - I did find someone who is going to act as a temp for this just to get us through the tax season. 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