Ops Meeting April 10th, 2007

Present: Lakiba, Suzette, Sheila, Ted, Aparna, Heikki, Katies, Jared, Mitch, Philippe

Agenda

• Reviews
• Logo
• Travel and conference budget

Performance Review

• Mitch presented the KEI perf review concepts and principles
• Need to get jobs descriptions as one of the reviews input, Katie to help managers if jobs descriptions missing
• Simplification: form less rating driven, more free form paragraphs, no formula
• 3 dimensions: 1. Clarity of goals 2. Relationship with peers 3. Results and achievements
• Values: we should certainly communicate more on those during the year (with new hires for instance)
• 3 "buckets" for evaluation (including self evaluation): 1. Needs improvement / Marginal 2. Satisfactory / Valuable 3. Exemplary
• Katie sent the functional competencies to the group
• We'll create some guidelines on to how to write the reviews (length, time, etc...)
• Next: will pick peer reviewers (Suzette handling the master spreadsheet)

Logo

• "It's the dog!"

Travel budget

• See Philippe's spreadsheet
• Bottom line: we can fly everyone for the launch party
• OSCon: since we have only 2 talks accepted, we may send less people over there

-- PhilippeBossut - 10 Apr 2007