Evaluations

I spent a great deal of time this week (and last) doing performance evaluations.
"Evals" are really quite a bit of work, and require precision.

In the past I had built a self-evaluation for my employees to think about their job and performance differently.

Currently I'm build an anonymous supervisor feedback form.  It is not really designed to be an evaluation of me by my employees.  It IS designed to solicit feedback from them about what would make them more efficient, etc...

I plan to review this document with Bill during my next eval.

Campus Video Tour - ready to launch!

We'll be launching the new campus video tour on monday.
It will replace our map found at: www.wou.edu/map

Each building has at least one video, and may also include multiple pictures that can be browsed.
An information section is also included for each building, including a possible link to a webpage will more complete information.

This project has been in the works for some time, and is FINALLY ready to launch.  Very exciting --

Cleaning Project

I conscripted some of our finest today to do a little cleaning project.
This project has been overdue, for some time now.
We all chipped in, including a few students and made some MAJOR progress.

Upon completion of the vacuuming, we discovered that our shop-vac had not been cleaned in awhile.  Maybe never.  So we ...tried... to clean it...

So dirty:

Reporting from EDW

Today was a momentous occasion.  We presented our answer to Eric for his complex and interesting data request.  We were very close, although the approach was not perfect, we can do a few tweaks next week to bring it to near-completion.

There are some very strange differences between FIS/SIS/etc... and trying to get them all to link and reconcile is VERY complicated.  Our team (Bruce, Christina, Nathan) has done an excellent job.

TaskList

I had a productive meeting with Dave this week, and we are very close to having 2 of his projects completed :)
Unfortunately, since I last met with him, that list has grown significantly.
Still working to juggle projects, schedules, timelines, etc...

Next week should be a very productive week, with things getting crossed off of lists.

Cognos

We are meeting with the Vice-Chancellor and one of the CIO's from around the state on monday to discuss Data Warehousing, and it's future at WOU.

Our team has been working recently to provide some data to Eric as we just crossed over year-end.
I'm very confident in the abilities of our team, and hope that our meeting on Monday is a positive event.  I've been spending time this week getting myself up-to-speed on the reports that exist and building new reports for Monday's meeting and beyond.