Comments by Updates from Barbara Goguen: (Thanks to Elaine for scribing!)
- Pulse Group and customer interviews are currently taking place.
- The next IS&T CSS All Hands Meeting will be held on Thursday, January 28, 2010
- Would like the group to be as interactive as possible.
- Engagement – get people’s ideas more.
- Not use the same format as we do for the last IS&T CSS All Hands Meeting
- Take lead from Pulse Groups: have 4-6 questions answered anonymously, cut up answers and give all answers to one question to one group (4-6 groups) to see ideas and give their feedback. Allows people to talk about things in a freer way. Have the owner of the question (the person who posed the question they would like help answering) be present at the table reviewing the answers - use that for next steps.
- Challenge is population is large – approximately 80 or more people. It is a challenge to summarize that many questions/answers.
- Not sure if the Pulse exercise fits the large size of CSS Group but we want to get CSS Group more involved.
- Irina Vainstock suggested sending out questions before the meeting and have someone collect all the answers and put it together for the All Hands Meeting on 1/28/10.
- It would be ideal to let people submit answers anonymously.
- Six tables – 1.5 hours discussion about the questions.
- Mingling around and float from table to table to discuss various answers.
- But do we know what we are fishing for? After fishing, what is the next step?
- The next steps will be presented and there will be some follow up.
- Already understood – articulate more a sense of the problem and the next step(s) to do after we get our arms around the problem.
- One possible foundation for questions are the Task Force recommendations
- For something like this when Sponsors and Client give feedback. Is our role to inform and implement or take a position and advocate that position? Is IS&T a relationship management role?
- Task Force reports can help us come up with good concrete question to tackle.
- Mix the groups up so people in IS&T that do not work together – have a chance to tackle the questions together to find the solutions.
- What do we come out with from the Task Groups? Do we get a sense of the organization?
- Hope to figure out where IS&T is. What is our role – more support or does MIT tell us what to do and we do it? Broad spectrum sense of where folks see themselves and IS&T. We can do some research around that.
- Submit ideas to Barbara Goguen by this Friday (1/8/2010) as to All Hands format and agenda
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