Joseph Bulger IV

Ok, we finally have the board.  Exhibit A:

I decided to keep the basic layout that I talked about earlier, but my wife wanted to flip it so the people were on the side and the stages were on the top, but none the less, the layout of the board is still the same:

We had our first weekly meeting, where everyone decided the things they needed to get done in the coming week.  We also had some discussion about things that we all shared, like doing dishes for example.  After we got everything down, this is what the board looks like:

And we also made a “Dailies” chart for Sarah.  These are things she has to do every day of the week.  She’ll check them off as they complete them, unless they need approval from a parent before hand, in which case the parent does the final sign off.

So, week 1 begins!

Is this hard to understand?

What is the email address on this card?

Maybe this is more understandable?

or I could swap the email and the site, maybe that makes it easier to read.

I’m getting there! This was suggested by Steven, and I think he’s completely correct.

I’m going to be making my family “agile” in the upcoming weeks.  What does that mean exactly? Well, I’ll be posting more about it, but essentially we’re going to organize our family activities around agile principles.  These are software management principles that I have been studying (and trying to apply) for a number of years now. They have proven to be very effective at my work, and I can see how they would be equally effective at home, as well.

So what exactly am I talking about?  Let’s take a look.  I’m going to start out by making a cork board for our family.  It should look something like this:

Colored cards are “shared” cards.  That means any parent can do them.  Children also have a daily card.  These are things they have to do every day, and they check them off when they’re done.

When we actually get the board I’ll post up some pics and explanation.

This is really sad, but it’s true. I have evidence!

Just FYI, my wife is very wise.  I had her look over the design I came up for the reputation system.  She thought it would be easier if the user could just check off the things they wanted.

Sometimes its just better to get a second opinion!

This is the new concept.  Not much has changed visually, but the behavior will definitely be different.

So the behavior will be by checking off one of the items from the search you’ll be informing the owner that you’re interested in that item.  What happens after that point I’m still working out, but that basically wraps up the behavior for this side.  What we have left to do is get the behavior done for the owner’s side.

Now my problem is I need to design a checkbox that will go on the side so people can just to click on.

So far I’ve come up with this, but I’m not 100% satisfied with it.  The coloring won’t really get nailed down until we put it up on the site and tweak it to make the color scheme, but you get the idea.

Any suggestions?