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# Summary
The Astroship's calendar function is not just a simple tool for organizing meetings and tracking progress, but a strategic skill essential for the successful operation of the enterprise. This function is of utmost importance as it serves dual purposes. Firstly, our business is centered on running voyages which are essentially event clusters, requiring meticulous organization, clear communication and comprehensive planning of both online and offline activities. Secondly, the Astroship is a meta event organizer, training others to replicate our event organization methodologies. This necessitates our calendaring system to be so efficient and well-organized that it becomes the preferred choice for all voyages across all ships. To meet this challenge and ensure that our calendaring system is strategically sound, we implement it as a team. The captain discusses its strategic importance, the navigator conducts a technical review of various calendaring platforms, and the engineer considers the implications of implementing each platform. The cook then assists in training the team on how to use the chosen calendar, establishing rules for its use and integrating it into the rhythm of the week. Ultimately, the responsibility for the external calendar could be given to the navigator, while the technical implementation is managed by the engineer.
# Tidied Transcript
I regard the calendar function of the Astroship as one of the most important strategic skills we need to master. The reason for this extends beyond the typical need of an organization to arrange its internal and external meetings, and to monitor who is doing what and when. It is about more than just maintaining a living document that indicates the trajectory of the voyaging season, the milestones and main stages for the future, and the daily and weekly activities. It's not just for administrative purposes. The real reason we need to excel at calendaring and view it as a strategic priority is twofold. Firstly, we are in the business of running voyages, which are events where many people participate in a variety of activities. We need to clearly organize and communicate what these activities are, when they will take place, and so forth. Secondly, these voyages are hybrid, meaning we need to organize both on-site and online events. This demands proficiency in arranging these events, along with marketing and promoting voyages, the events within them, and the online events that occur remotely. In this sense, the Astroship can be seen as an event organizer. Each voyage is essentially a collection of events, so we need to be skilled at managing our calendar for this reason. More importantly, we are not merely an event organizer, but a 'meta event organizer'. This means that we want to impart our methods of event organization to others. We want our methodology to be replicable not only for the voyages we conduct at Astroship, but for all different ships. To do this effectively, our calendaring system must be so well organized and thought out that others are eager to use it because it surpasses their current system. It's not just about calendaring for our own purposes, or because we're an event organizer. We need to be such proficient event organizers in our calendaring that all voyages across all ships want to use our methodology. This makes it strategically important, and it's crucial that we continually improve our methods. So how do we face this challenge? We do it as a team. As the captain, my role is to explain its strategic importance and to help structure and organize the teamwork. After consultation with the team, the navigator will research the various calendaring platforms that exist from a technical perspective, gather requirements from the captain and engineer, and write a report. The engineer will then consider each of these calendaring systems, weigh the implications of implementing them in their department, and perhaps come up with a recommendation. They will also devise a functional specification and a roadmap for its implementation, including interim solutions and long-term plans. The cook might then assist with training team members on how to use the calendar, the rules for its use, and how it fits into the rhythm of the week and meetings. This also includes determining who is responsible for the calendar. This could be the navigator's role, with the technical implementation falling under the engineer's purview. However, it could also be assigned to another role such as the magician.
# Keywords Astroship, calendar function, strategic skill, voyages, event clusters, meta event organizer, calendaring system, team implementation, captain, navigator, engineer, cook
# Graph
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