Continuous Improvement — publishing chores

This page is where I keep track of achievements in continuous improvement of carrying out key publishing tasks.

Initial Daily Norms
Improvement Goal or Achievement 


Pay all authors one at a time using PayPal
Automate payments


Generate all sales reports in PDF at once using Excel
Consider creating them in Excel instead


Enter all distributor data into sales reports by hand
Write macros to copy data from distributor reports into master authors' comp


Create one cover/day
Switched to Scribus


Write 4 pages/day
Write 4 pages/day


Format 100 pages/day
Write formatting macro


Copy-edit 50 pages/day
Write macro to fix common punctuation errors


Sign one contract / day
Update assent form to 1) be in You/We language 2) enable author to print out form with his particulars filled in

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