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Rockefeller Archive Center Digital Strategies Team Core Expertise

Project management (Plan)

  • Develop and lead strategic projects
  • Identify specific and measurable project goals
  • Identify project stakeholders and clearly communicate their roles and responsibilities
  • Create realistic project timelines
  • Divide work into achievable tasks tied to specific due dates
  • Document and communicate project progress and next steps

Process analysis (Research/Analyze/Ideate)

  • Coordinate and conduct research to identify and understand problems
  • Analyze organizational processes
  • Evaluate and interpret research to recommend solutions
  • Foster stakeholder engagement through effective communication and facilitation
  • Encourage the adoption of user-centered design practices and user-centered thinking as a key organizational methodology

Application and Process Engineering (Execute)

  • Institutionalize the improvement of daily processes
  • Improve efficiency and humanization of processes through documentation or other methods which codify and make processes observable
  • Improve error discovery, reduce conflicts, and surface inefficiencies by organizing units of work in small batches
  • Use version control and code testing practices that encourage experimentation, minimize the risks of failure, and reduce failure recovery times
  • Increase code quality with robust testing practices, pair coding, and collaborative code review
  • Facilitate fast and easy code development and deployment with automated continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines
  • Automate the creation of standardized and sustainable infrastructure
  • Automate software releases and their management
  • Create loosely coupled architectures that improve environmental flexibility

Evaluation and Maintenance (Sustain)

  • Systematize maintenance & repair of systems at the RAC
  • Ensure stability, functionality, and remove friction in maintenance tasks
  • Increase observability of system health and user behavior
  • Regularize roles, processes and communication
  • Monitor, evaluate, and interpret systems performance data to improve performance and reduce friction

Learning

  • Identify knowledge gaps and relevant training for ourselves, our team, and the organization
  • Engage with professional communities to advance individual and organizational knowledge and networks
  • Support a culture of learning by creating opportunities for formal and informal knowledge sharing

Facilitation

  • Deploy facilitation techniques to generate inclusive collaboration among project stakeholders and teams to define and meet goals
  • Create safety, space, and time for people to contribute to the understanding of a problem and co-create solutions
  • Provide the structure and tools for colleagues across the organization to facilitate hard and meaningful conversations
  • Empower users to feel ownership of systems and processes

Collaboration

  • Use and support communication practices and tools that streamline collaborative projects and enable openness and transparency
  • Support, articulate and formalize collaborative processes which can be used in contexts across the organization
  • Increase capacity for self-organization among peers and mechanisms for sharing/devolving power
  • Define expectations and set clear responsibilities for shared work
  • Create learning and teaching opportunities for colleagues
  • Create support structures that encourage creative autonomous work