Fan Consultation Group - the minutes from the meeting

[levico]

How about a new motto under the badge:

BRACE BRACE BRACE

[robbo1874]

Thanks for posting the transcript. Very interesting.
Was there any mention of the kit? The current purple one is awful. Compare it to the one we had when Mon was here. That was the last time we played in proper claret & blue. Same with the current badge.  Bland & boring spring to mind.

Top draw styling, shit colour and shit badge, sort it out UA and AVFC.

Thanks for posting the transcript. Very interesting.
Was there any mention of the kit? The current purple one is awful. Compare it to the one we had when Mon was here. That was the last time we played in proper claret & blue. Same with the current badge.  Bland & boring spring to mind.

Top draw styling, shit colour and shit badge, sort it out UA and AVFC.

cant see how we can continue the association with UA after the revelations recently.

[in exile]

Thanks Dave

[West Derby Villan]

Appreciate the detailed feedback Dave, cheers

[UK Redsox]

LO – We are aware there are problems. We have a third party helping us with the maintenance of the website operating without any SLAs (Service Level Agreement).  SLAs need to be introduced.  We have 73 ‘sprints’ running with them at the moment, each ‘sprint’ being a mini project to develop the website.  We are aware of issues with the indexing of content as we can see how many clicks we lose where people get lost.  The website is something we continue to work through.

*dons professional hat*
*slowly shakes head*

"Sprints" are how such projects are referred to in....how to put this......a large circular building in Cheltenham

[UK Redsox]

Tommy Elphick was asked to choose the entrance music?

I nominate Woofles to take over

[brian green]

Thank you DW.

[mallo]

LO – We are aware there are problems. We have a third party helping us with the maintenance of the website operating without any SLAs (Service Level Agreement).  SLAs need to be introduced.  We have 73 ‘sprints’ running with them at the moment, each ‘sprint’ being a mini project to develop the website.  We are aware of issues with the indexing of content as we can see how many clicks we lose where people get lost.  The website is something we continue to work through.

*dons professional hat*
*slowly shakes head*

Haha I wryly smiled at that - 73 sprints you say... *rubs chin*

[Woofles The Wonder Dog]

Tommy Elphick was asked to choose the entrance music?

I nominate Woofles to take over

Simple choice:

a) Grateful Dead - Dark Star (the 24 minute version)
b) Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Edit: maybe Fairies Wear Boots?

[Woofles The Wonder Dog]

Q. How was the run-out song at Villa Park chosen? Can we change it?

KW – There are several ways we could try and approach this.  At the start of the season, we asked Tommy Elphick to choose the music.  We are aware that many are underwhelmed by the choice, and will see if we can arrange a fans vote.

Not much on the internet makes me genuinely LOL but this did. and just has again.

What was said makes me feel very impressed with the level of planning/thinking at that level (and many thanks for the update). And pretty optimistic for the commercial future. Now, the car-crash that is our current form... <sobs quietly>

[PeterWithe]

LO – We are aware there are problems. We have a third party helping us with the maintenance of the website operating without any SLAs (Service Level Agreement).  SLAs need to be introduced.  We have 73 ‘sprints’ running with them at the moment, each ‘sprint’ being a mini project to develop the website.  We are aware of issues with the indexing of content as we can see how many clicks we lose where people get lost.  The website is something we continue to work through.

*dons professional hat*
*slowly shakes head*

Out of interest why?

[KRS]

A "sprint" is generally a set number of tasks to be completed towards a project and usually last 1-2 weeks...if there are 73 sprints then the website development project is likely to take approx 150 weeks (or 3 years) unless there are multiple teams working on numerous sprints concurrently. See Agile Project Management methodology.

[pauliewalnuts]

LO – We are aware there are problems. We have a third party helping us with the maintenance of the website operating without any SLAs (Service Level Agreement).  SLAs need to be introduced.  We have 73 ‘sprints’ running with them at the moment, each ‘sprint’ being a mini project to develop the website.  We are aware of issues with the indexing of content as we can see how many clicks we lose where people get lost.  The website is something we continue to work through.

*dons professional hat*
*slowly shakes head*

Out of interest why?

Sprints are a break down of time / amount of work involved in creating a project, each sprint usually lasting two weeks, and although each sprint is supposed to result in something which can be demoed, describing each sprint as a mini project to improve the website is somewhat misleading.

Sprints are run one after the other, so to suggest they currently have 73 sprints running would imply they have 73 projects running at the same time.

Basically, someone involved in software development has told them something and they've taken it and starting using it entirely out of context and in a somewhat puzzling way.

[BOB MANSFIELD]

Only wish we'd got a few players who could come up with 73 Sprints !!