2018 Retrospective

What did we do well?

  • Enthusiasm of the group and interest in the project.
  • Good learning experience for participants.

  • Organization of planning and running meetings. 
  • Everyone contributed and we worked well together dividing up the work and assigning tasks.
  • Had good discussions as questions arose. Agreed on decisions and moved forward accordingly.
  • Kept to our timeline and accomplished all of our goals.
  • Produced something that will hopefully help others and make their ArchivesSpace research easier, and even help them find answers much more quickly.

What could have gone better?

  • May have been helpful to meet more often than once a month. With to-do tasks each month to keep the project moving forward, it was too easy to leave things until the last minute.
  • Most administrative tasks fell to the Lead (Maggie). Could've tried to divide those out more.

Ad hoc working group feedback

  • Really liked that the group focused on a specific task. Might help to break down larger topics or higher-level TAC assignments into ad hoc groups. These things could then be worked on concurrently.
  • There were clear objectives, clear and measurable deadlines, and regular meetings. This made it easy to commit, made us answerable to what we offered to do, and resulted in a collaborative endeavor.

  • Grateful at the opportunity to contribute to this Awesome List and to the greater good of our archival community. I happy to see the TAC reaching out to others to participate. I hope that they continue this trend as I think it was worth it.