Snow removal

Summary

Input's current project manager lives just outside of Boston. In the last week of January and first couple of days of February 2015, they received over 4 feet of snow.

This project covers rearchitecting the shoveling component for more optimal snow removal.

Status

• Project owner(s): Will Kahn-Greene
• Status: In-progress

History

• January 27th, 2015: Will received around 32 inches of snow.
• January 30th, 2015: Will received another 3 inches of snow and broke a shovel.
• February 2nd, 2015: Will received another 18 inches of snow making it more than 4 feet in 7 days. Ugh.
• February 3rd, 2015: Will wrote up this project plan.
• February 5th, 2015: More snow with a forecast suggesting it's going to snow every day for the next week.
• March 9th, 2015: Completion of phase 1. The sun is up, the sky is blue, it's above freezing. Most likely done with storms. WIN!

Phase 1

This phase covers identifying key failures in the existing snow shoveling system so that we can address and alleviate them in Phase 2.

Things to look at:

1. single point of failure in snow removal
2. long periods of downtime during snow removal due to serial nature of snow removal personnel
3. tools break

Conclusion:

1. If you wait enough time, it will pass.
2. Friendly neighbors with snowblowers are true blessings.
3. Young ones aren't helpful for snow removal, yet.

Phase 2

Come up with a better system and process to migrate from the old system to the new one.

TBD.