This is a general template for TAC and UAC workplans. Use this as a starting point for your sub-team, but feel free to depart from the format as your work needs. More general guidance on considerations regarding workplans can be found at https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AC/pages/3137994933/Guidelines+for+ArchivesSpace+Council+Sub-Teams#Sub-team-Workplans
Goals
Use this section to identify your sub-team’s overarching goals for the term. These may be restatements of your sub-team’s charge.
Specific Tasks or Projects
Use this section to identify the specific tasks or projects your sub-team intends to work on this year. Consider organizing them into ongoing and discrete tasks, if appropriate.
The sub-sections below provide a suggested structure: Ongoing/Recurring Tasks, In Progress Projects Carried Over from Last Term, New Projects for This Term, and Out-of-Scope. Feel free to depart from this as appropriate for your sub-team’s work.
A few considerations:
Consider adding details like timelines, names of sub-team members who the task is delegated to, and links to helpful documentation.
Be realistic about your sub-team’s capacity – small, achievable goals are important!
Identify if any of these projects are “stretch” goals that may not be feasible or will remain in-progress at the end of term.
Using the checkbox functionality allows you to easily indicate when work is completed.
Ongoing/Recurring Tasks
- Example: Monitor documentation GitHub repository and promptly address issues and pull requests. Point person is [name, using @ functionality]
- Example: Perform regression testing for upcoming releases.
In-Progress Projects Carried Over from Last Term
- Example: Revisit [document link] an update with current processes. Delegated to [name, using @ functionality], slated to be completed by .
New Projects for This Term
- Example: Revise documentation about [x] functionality based on conversation on User listserv. [name, using @ functionality] and [name, using @ functionality] will take the lead and present progress to sub-team at [month] meeting. Aim to complete by [month].
Out-of-Scope (Optional)
Identify any work areas of projects that you have determined to be out-of-scope of this year’s workplan. This could be because it falls beyond your sub-team’s charge, has a dependency that requires you to wait, or is beyond your sub-team’s capacity.
Maintenance Activities (Optional)
Use this space to identify any actions or considerations necessary to support the maintenance of your sub-team’s tasks or projects once they have been completed. Is there documentation that needs to be created? Do future sub-team members need particular permissions to complete certain work?
Themes (Optional)
This section is optional, but a space to identify any underlying themes that run throughout multiple tasks or projects. This can also be a space to identify how you intend to approach your work this term. This can also be helpful when revisiting the workplan at the end of term with an eye towards the sub-team’s retrospective, or at the beginning of next term.