Training Log Archive: iansmith

I am frustrated with how dysfunctional we as the OUSA Board of Directors are. Our documentation is inadequate, we don't have our information collected in one spot, and our task management and planning tool is e-mail. This has frustrated me since I joined the Board, but I am determined to do something about it. Bob Forgrave made great strides with google drive, but we haven't fully integrated it into our daily use.

My goals to this end before the end of 2018:

1. Fully migrate all our Board documentation to google drive. If it isn't in the drive, then it doesn't exist.
   
2. Get the Board and OUSA leadership to adopt a project management tool, e.g. basecamp. I played around with Freedcamp in 2016, but I wasn't fully convinced of its capabilities or that it would be widely adopted. There are numerous pros and cons to all the tools - Asana, Basecamp, Freedcamp, Slack, Trello, Jira, Glip, Podio, Wrike, Mavenlink, etc - but any tool is an improvement over e-mail.
   
3. Organize our documentation so it's accessible. I'm leaning towards using a wiki for OUSA policies, strategies, processes, committees, and so on.