Worker Autonomy
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Begin by typing your project name into the Central Topic.
Activities & Schedule
Activity
Host a worker autonomy COP monthly sharing the learning from the LAs we are working with. Allowing the other LAs the opportunity to ask questions and share solutions.
Set up steering group with national partners and representatives from supported people groups.
Type in one or more project activities.
Examples include:
- Requirements collection and analysis
- Research and problem-solving
- Design and architecture
- Completing deliverables
- Acceptance testing and feedback
- Support and maintenance
Meet monthly
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When will this activity take place?
Type in an approximate date or a project stage.
Communications plan
Key communications events
Project review
Include a project review?
The project review meeting takes place once the project has been closed, and examines the processes that led to both success and failure in the project.
Add a description of the meeting goals in the Notes panel
Actions/ Risk and issue reviews
Include risk and issue reviews?
You should periodically review project risks and issues, to ensure that new risks are not emerging and that issues are not being left unaddressed.
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Individual project meetings on a monthly basis
Include stage planning meetings?
If your project is large, or if you are using an Agile methodology, you may need regular planning meetings to schedule the project in stages.
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Kick-off meeting all three LAs self evaluation - identification of key priorities.
Include a kick-off meeting?
The meeting ensures that the project team and key stakeholders all have the same goals, know what the main elements of the plan are, what the processes and rules are, and what part they will play.
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Ist week June
Communication & collaboration tools
Tool
SWS website
MS Teams
Add a communication/collaboration tool.
Examples include:
- Physical meetings
- E-mail distribution lists
- Instant messaging and virtual meetings
- Local or cloud-based file sharing
- Online project management tools
- Online discussion boards
- Collaborative tools
Requirements management
To have a project board overseeing the actions of the project and also adressing the barriers faced by staff when it is a challenge to access budgets to meet agreed outcomes.
Exclusion
Specify an exclusion from your project.
Examples are:
- Major changes in scope or specification
- On-site support
- Troubleshooting related systems
- Managing other subcontractors
- End-user training
- Replacing consumables
To ensure that the parameters for accessing budgets, delegated lines of authority for spend are clear
Requirement
Add a specific requirement
Prioritize them with an icon:
- Must have - an essential requirement
- Should have - preferred, but a temporary workaround would be acceptable
- Could have - include if easy and all the Musts and Shoulds are complete
- Want to have - can be left for the future
To ensure the the LAs commit to setting up a project board and also a project team.
Requirements management technique
Add a requirements management technique
Techniques might include:
- Using a process for discovering requirements
- Maintaining a master list of requirements
- Writing testable and measurable requirements
- Establishing a formal process for agreeing on changes to the requirements
Stakeholders
Others
Stakeholder
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Think about people who:
- Share the resources that the project will use
- Will gain or lose from the project
- Manage staff you might need
- Support or oppose the project
- Are in a position to influence the project
CELCIS
SDS National Partners
PLPP and SDSS and the SDS Collective
Local Authorities (One from an Island setting, one urban/rural and the other from a city)
Account manager
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Sponsors
Scottish Government
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Promise Team
IRASC Team
Business Case
To shift power and control from the system down to workers and people, where the process of accessing budgets is quick and simple and transparent.
Key benefit
Type in a key benefit from this project.
Examples include:
- Creating new opportunities
- Gaining a competitive advantage
- Solving a key problem
- Developing new knowledge
To ensure worker autonomy
Assumptions
That leaders are signed up to the process.
Type in an assumption
Examples include:
- Resources will be available
- Technology will work reliably
- Materials costs will stay the same
- Another project will finish on time
Constraints
Time to be allocated for each member to progress work between meetings and attend meetings on a monthly basis (for 6 months).
Type in a project constraint
For example:
- Production line 1 is not available
- Design resources must be released by September
- Salary budget cannot be increased
Set up project team
Milestones
Setup project board
Type in the name of a milestone for your project.
For example:
- A strategic decision
- Signing an agreement
- A key meeting
- Acceptance of a deliverable
11/06/2021
Enter an approximate target date for this milestone.
Deliverables
Each LA has an action plan developed around worker autonomy
Type in a project deliverable
For example:
- A key document or agreement
- Some equipment or working software
- An event, such as a demonstration or training
