Improvment Initiative Template: Fill & Download for Free

1. Teaching children of varied abilities who are placed in the same class. A little bit of DI is fine, but sometimes the variations in abilities is so much that the strugglers are still struggling and left struggling, because they not be have placed in that class in the first place.2. Creating portfolios for district improvement initiatives. This isn't part of my teaching actually, Its generating and showcasing documents of effectiveness. It takes a lot of time.3. Fitting my lesson plan into the school's predetermined template. I'd rather present my lesson plans the way I want to.

I have worked with Wave extensively as a McKinsey consultant. It is very helpful, although it still has room for improvement.Think of Wave as a program management tool rather than a project management tool. For example, if you have a program with hundreds of detailed initiatives (such as a merger integration), you need some way of tracking overall progress without getting lost in the weeds.After setup, we typically used Wave in the expanded program team (core team + major initiative owners) in a review meeting once a week. Wave helped guide the discussion (talk about Red items, not Green ones) and everyone could see what was going on everywhere else.The primary advantages of Wave in my experience are:It forces the program management team to set up a consistent financial valuation and tracking methodology for all initiatives up-front. This is unavoidable if you want to do program management properly and it's better to do this from the start than having to catch up laterIt enforces a minimum discipline for initiative owners to define their initiatives, to set up their financial impact estimate, create milestones, etc. This results in loud cries of anguish over the first 3 weeks of use, but again it's necessary and better to do up-frontIt gives accountability to initiative owners, whose failure to make progress (or even to update reporting in Wave) will become very obviousIt allows you to look across all initiatives to avoid overlaps, assess progress, anticipate looming bottlenecks, etc.It allows executives at various levels to see varying scope and levels of aggregation, so it is useful within a division or across the entire company.Wave could improve in some ways.It has a learning curve, which can be irritating to those who are proficient in project management tools like MS Project. MS Project also has a learning curve, of course, but the intent could be clearer and user friendliness could improveIt has a few idiosyncrasies in the user interface that could be easily remedied but that took additional time (and hassle) for usersIts internal financial reporting engine could be more complete and flexible. We built separate financial reporting tools (fed by Wave) to accomplish thisIt costs money and should only be considered for programs that really need itSome of these improvement areas are being addressed over time, and not only by the development team. For example, some practices have created industry- and function-specific wrap-around tools for Wave to create more applicable initiative templates and reporting capabilities.

I would like to effectively and quickly search through my existing answers, , questions and comments. I see no reason why I should be forced to scroll indefinitely through a bunch of answers trying to find a response that was 4 months old. Ditto for comments too.The Quora database has everything, the user content UI needs basic search functionality. This includes by date, by number of upvotes, by ask to answer, by topic(s), by who upvoted, by number of comments, etc ... There is quite a bit data and metadata that would allow searching. How does one quickly search and browse through 1000 answers or 2000 comments?For now and possibly forever, Quora has a fair amount of content that is somewhat duplicated. How do I invest, how do I become a better programmer, how do I save, how do I pick a career, ... These questions get asked repeatedly with slightly differing context needing slightly different answers. This creates answers with less detail since the other related answers cannot be easily accessed as an initial template.I do not want to be responsible for mentally indexing my prior content. I only want to realize it might exist and then quickly search for it.Well I have to scroll endlessly page after page to find an existing answer. It only loads a fixed number and then stops. I mostly just give up after a few minutes. Software, database and a functional UI trivially solves this problem. If the a key use case is writing answers, then leveraging this ability has value. I know how these systems work, that is what I do for a living. It is possible, it is just a matter of feature prioritization.My fear is that I will just have to keep rewriting the same stuff with increasing brevity because I know I will have to rewrite again at some future point and I will not be able to locate what I just wrote. Why elaborate and provide detail when I will endlessly have to push the ball up the hill again ?Maybe I should just keep my own database of Quora answers ? But no, that is what Quora should do for me as a user. Power user expectations are a bitch.