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This Blog was created to provide a forum for sharing and learning from each other. The idea was “hatched” at the Oct - Nov Dulles VA Colloquia (thanks to my cohort!). This is not a site for griping, whining, or complaining - it is intended to be a vehicle for assisting each other in improving organizations. To that end, we have three major topic areas:
- Organizational Maturity
- Using Metrics for Strategic Planning / Process Improvement
- Making organizational change work
This Blog will grow and change as needed to accomodate our needs. As the Blog's facilitator, I will post a definition/explanation of each of the topics from my viewpoint. You are free to offer other views of course. I hope this will be a useful vehicle for an informed dialogue and a means of helping us all share and learn from each other.
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DTRT TRW TFT
“If you don’t know where you are, a map won’t help,
If you don’t know where you’re going, any map will do”
Do-It-Yourself Metrics!
My two co-workers, Don Padgett and Mike Langthorne, and I presented a 45 minute session at the March 2006, EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference. We presented a down and dirty explanation of how to implement a metrics program. We reviewed the implementation guide we use at work to build a metric:
Metric Name
Purpose (a go/no go proposition)
Metric Area/Category
Customer
Graphical Representation
Explanation
Metrics Analysis
Measures used to develop metric
Collection Schema
Schedule
Assumptions and Constraints
Related Metrics and Data Dependencies
Lessons Learned
The presentation went over quite well. You can find the slides at: http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/666?ID=MWR0651
Let me know what you think!