Jon Stahl posted some of ONE/Northwest’s (my former employer) evaluation criteria on the ONE/Blog the other day that I think we should consider adopting. This would be a checklist that we run though to try and assess the successes and challenges of the project. Such an action is useful for “personal reflection” but also for the team as a whole to progress with our services and have some sort of benchmark for service growth. Adam and Miles would probably be in the best position to put this together, and I’d be happy to help once I get our strategic goals put together for the next year and a half. Thoughts?
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Has anyone bought or used Outpost before? It looks pretty snazzy and I’d like to be able to access Basecamp on the go, but I’ve been burned by so many pay iPhone apps that I’m not entirely interested in experimenting.
For the first time in weeks, CoPress managed a Sunday conference call that actually went a few minutes shorter than expected as we briefly reviewed a few projects that are on the table. Daniel, Adam, Joey, Greg, and Miles were in attendance.
Organization
In organization, Daniel revealed that he’ll be leaving us for a few days to get a few moments of sanity. In the meantime, he’s working on creating a strategic goals document that should lay out the big picture at CoPress. We also want to try to polish off some of the rough edges on our website, with significant facelifts for the team blog (which we’re moving to inside.copress.org) and the main about page. We have the recurring problem of balancing the desire to display copious amounts of information with effective design—and we’ve yet to find the perfect balance.
The main conclusion of our operations discussion was that Project Pier just isn’t cutting it for us as an organization. Tasks are getting lost, checkboxes are going unchecked, and there is no job-tracking to speak-of. So we’re moving back to BaseCamp—and looking forward to a lot more alert-emails in our inbox (and Daniel) to keep us on top of things.
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