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-====== How To ======
-  - **Observe how people are using the space.**  Keep your eyes and ears open.  Collect metrics?
-  - **Notice something that doesn't work well enough.**  Have you spotted a common, recurring problem?  Is there an area that tends to get filled with mysterious junk?  Is a useful thing often hard to find?  Is something dangerous?
-  - **Find a way to make it better.**
-    * Describe the problem to someone else.  (This will help clarify it in your own mind.)
-    * Get consensus that the new plan will work.  (Will it work? Is it [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_criteria|SMART]]? )
-    * Make the new way real.
-  - **Get people to adopt the new way.**  If the new way is truly better, this should happen automatically.
-====== Examples ======
-Issue: Sweeping the space is too hard.\\
-Solution: Replace all the non-folding chairs with the same grey Costco chairs we've been buying.\\
-Reason: Eases the burden for the cleaner(s).
-Issue: Table and floor is cluttered with non-project stuff (such as laptop bags, backpacks, etc) on busy days, leaving no room for others to work on their own projects\\
-Solution: Keep bags and jackets in your locker if you have one, and if you do not, put them up the front to the side of the couch.\\
-Solution: Shelf under the central tables for temporary storage.\\
-Reason: More efficient use of the space; we should be able to fit nearly twice as many people at the tables than can be currently accommodated on a typical Tuesday.
-Question: Where will people fit their legs if there's a shelf in the way?
-Issue: Garbage tends to collect on the tables, shelves, and floor.\\
-Solution: hang all lamps above the table.  Mount power bars on the legs of the table.\\
-Reason: Making the tables always-empty will draw attention to garbage left behind.\\
-Solution: Only accept donations the space needs.\\
-Reason: donations are assumed to be owned by someone else, never touched, and then they matastasize.
-Solution: As suggested by other hackspaces, add a "Gone in two weeks" shelf and a "Gone in one week" shelf.  Move things as appropriate.
-Issue: Electronic services tend to rot.\\
-Solution: Take an hour to read and/or update the Wiki, blog, or other iStuff.
-Issue: Not enough storage space.\\
-Solution: Everything should be labelled by owner.\\
-Reason: Anything unlabelled is assumed to be donated and should be claimed or recycled.\\
-Reason: Anything owned by an individual should be in their locker or sent home.
-Issue: Loose nuts, bolts, and washers.\\
-Solution: ?? Something like a coin sorter that works on these things?\\
-Reason: Throwing them out is stupid and sorting them is too hard.
-Issue: Most of the MAME games don't work.\\
-Solution: ??
-Reason: error-free MAME box = more fun!
-Issue: Too hard to access the PHP for the VHS and Wiki.\\
-Solution: Add to Dropbox?  Github?\\
-Reason: Cannot Kaizen without access.
-Issue: People don't know when the space is open.\\
-Solution: Easy website updates when [[:opening_the_space]] and when [[:closing_the_space]].\\
-Reason: attracts more people to the space.
-Issue: Access to the space for non-members is a nuisance to everyone, even when the space is open.\\
-Solution: ??
-Reason: Eliminates buzzer
-====== Completed Actions ======
--05-09:
-Issue: Garbage tends to collect on the tables, shelves, and floor.\\
-Solution: Cut the tables to all be the same height. \\
-Reason: With no overhang, there are less places things can be "out of sight, out of mind".\\
--05-16:
-Issue: Stuff tends to collect on either end of the work benches.\\
-Issue: Stacked folding chairs get in the way of the CNC, fire escape.\\
-Solution: Move the Electronics bench 18" away from the fire escape door.  Stack the chairs behind the door.\\
-Reason: Can't store stuff in a gap that doesn't exist.
-====== See Also ======
-[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizen|Kaizen on Wikipedia]]\\
-[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_criteria|SMART criteria]]\\
-[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5S_%28methodology%29|5S methodology]]\\
-[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_planning|Strategic planning]]