Operations processes

[iteles]

As a dwyler, I want to ensure that all operations processes are captured in a clear and replicable way, with checklists of the things that need to be done in a step-by-step fashion where possible So that if the operations people are unavailable, the processes can still be carried out and in future we can automate these in order to free up time for other productive tasks!

1. Create a list of the various tasks that are performed
2. Open issues for each of these tasks in this repo
3. Link each as a checklist in this main comment
4. Follow our contributing process (including time estimations and time tracking) to complete these (I'm happy to be the reviewer)

[iteles]

@markwilliamfirth As discussed, this (and its counterpart for non-ops processes #36) are our top priority for dwyl summer 🎉

priority-2 in case we have urgent tasks that need to be carried out.

[ghost]

This is quite a big task and any operational handbook can always be further improved upon with additional detail added to it. It may be better to timebox the amount of time you want me to spend on this and then I can assign that time to the task

[ghost]

dwyl

Finance

• Bookkeeping
• Expenses
• Payroll / PAYE
• Contractor Invoicing
• Grants & Tax Credits
• Corporation Tax Return
• Budgeting
• Forecasting
• VAT Return

Human Resources

• Onboarding
• Offboarding
• Policy
• Resourcing
• Hiring
• Employee proofs
• Culture
• Feedback
• Visas
• OKRs
• Complaints

Legal Documents

• Writing
• Ratification
• Filing
• Trade marks

Company Administration

• Companies House accounts
• Articles of Association
• Insurance
• Company structure

Marketing

• Twitter

Events

• dwyl Summer
• dwylympics

Project Management

• Scrum
• Client Management

Sales

• Requirements gathering
• Providing quotes
• Closing

Focus Hub

Finance

• Reconciliations
• Accounts

Office Management

• Maintenance

Events

• Yoga

Sales

• Tours
• Negotiation
• Closing

Tenant Management

• Onboarding
• Offboarding
• Deposits
• Identity verification
• Key cutting
• Requests

Marketing

• Twitter
• Gumtree
• Facebook Ads
• HUBBLE

[iteles]

Agreed, let's make it the focus of dwylsummer as much as possible, so the 5 days of next week.

I would suggest we start with Finance and Legal and go on from there, but it would be useful to also prioritise these in terms of the order we want to write them in

[ghost]

@iteles what about other tasks that are currently priorities and ongoing activities such as payroll etc? It's not possible to assign all 5 days

[iteles]

Agreed, we need to time estimate those first and remove them from the overall 5 days (as well as a morning for dwylsummer water sports).

We should then assess at the end of the week and review how much more time will be required. My intention is to have a more focussed period where you (hopefully both of us) can get as much down as possible and then use the knowledge to understand how much time we should be setting aside per week to get this done.

Doing a repetitive task without documenting it is shouting into the void and we need to do a lot less of that so that we can move forward 😬

[ghost]

@iteles checking that you are sure you want the handbook recorded in issues? Perhaps it would be better to write the handbook as a document instead?

[iteles]

I would like an issue for each section and an .md file PR'ed into this repo for each one of those please 👍 We want to have it as an example of following our contributing process. Leading by example!

[Cleop]

@iteles - perhaps you could update progress on this issue as there was a proposed time set aside to work on this which may/may not have materialised...

[iteles]

There was a finance.md file which was pushed directly to master and reviewed in #46, but no effort was made on any of the other points.

@Cleop More work was put into the issue you did #70 , so thank you for that!