Help me compile a list with all the failed + not delivered proposals, let's learn from our mistakes

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RGXDK

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I want to gather data to compile a report on our budget, we need to learn quickly from our mistakes. Here are some examples the kind of data I'm planning to get

- 38% of proposals are not delivered at all
- 61% have no deadline
- 86% of all the not delivered proposals have no deadline
- 80% have no escrow
- 93% of all proposals with escrow are delivered
- 68% of all proposals over $50k are not delivered
and so on...

For that we need to know AS MUCH AS WE CAN about the proposals.
  • If it has a deadline or not
  • Date
  • Value
  • Who is the person posting
  • How many times the person has posted a proposal
  • If it has escrow and who's doing it
  • etc.
Where's what I'd like your help:

1) Where could I get this data from? https://www.dashcentral.org/budget/completed list proposals but how do I know if it has been delivered or not? Where could I get the other data?

2) What other reports could we possibly want to generate?

3) Most importantly, how could we use this data to improve our budget system.
 
Actually I would like to see this as well. It would be great if we could have some kind of permissioned wiki/database where we can start documenting outcomes and other data and what not for all of the proposals, with ability to comment in case any of the statuses are disputed. It would be great if this could be worked into one of the existing platforms (dashcentral, dashtreasury) but idk if that is going to happen.
 
camosoul said:
How will you account for sabotaged projects?
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Sabotaged projects can be accounted for by creating a topic on the forum and airing all your specific grievances on what happened, to allow for a proper discussion, instead of littering everyone else's threads with vague references to it.
 
RGXDK said:
Any ideas on how can I go through this list https://dashvotetracker.com/past.php and find out if a project was delivered, delivered on time etc?
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You should first classify them in categories. You should build a project categories tree, and/or put tags on the projects.
ex. Advertising, software Development, meetings e.t.c

For the advertising or meetings, you should search photos and videos for the event.
For the development, you should search the code or the hardware.

If you want to collaborate with other people, use a web annotation system like hypothesis in order to annotate https://dashvotetracker.com/past.php
 
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RGXDK said:
Any ideas on how can I go through this list https://dashvotetracker.com/past.php and find out if a project was delivered, delivered on time etc?
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Well, from dashvotetracker you can get to the dashcentral comments, and perhaps a crossposted forum proposal thread. Hopefully between the comments and the thread there might be enough information to tell what happened and when. If there's insufficient info there then there is always google, or you can ask here, or in Discord/Reddit if anyone can point you in the right direction.
 
The Dash budget system could benefit from an independent professional audit, as well as a standing auditor who keeps tabs on all projects going forward. This would be a good proposal to fund. An accounting firm could be retained to do the job. If I wasn't busy with my current projects...
 
@jimbursch @kot

I might be wrong but I feel like this is a role for someone at Core. Mainly because Core is the only team I would trust at this point to do escrow on large proposals, and if they're doing the escrow might as well do the audit.

Now I don't mean someone should stop doing his current job and go work on this, I mean I would be a good idea to hire a group of people with that specific purpose. And if hiring people is out of the scope, outsourcing the job to another company, like Deloitte, would be a good choice.
 
I think it should be completely independent auditor (or even better - automated process). It would be good to see our proposals audited too.
 
@kot

How do you feel about delegating this task entirely to a company like Deloite?
 
I am pretty sure that you would receive quite huge analysis document for every proposal and pay a lot of money for that ...and 90% of the document would be useless.
What is needed first in my opinion are some requirements about quality of proposals, measures of quality, success criteria etc. Only if these basic requirements are defined, we could analyse and measure.
 
Or, you could convert to a budget system that is a squelch-able reimbursement model.

But, then, there might be consequences for those using it as their own personal piggy bank...

Once an abuse-able dysfunction is created, it is next to impossible to fix it, because those reaping gains from the dysfunction don't want it fixed, and they have all the money and power, so how do you stop them?
 
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