My Proposal to IUSD - Irvine Unified School District - for Cost Savings and Revenue Opportunities

From: Sanjay Dalal, Entrepreneur
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 8:32 PM
To: Vanessa Lewis; Carla Cashman; Jodi Field; Tammy Smecker-Hane; Mike Kathleen; Karen Catabijan; Yan Zhu; Elise Lee; Tina Zhao- PTA Historian 2009-2010
Cc: Sanjay Dalal,Entrepreneur; LaRae Cunningham
Subject: My Suggestions to IUSD

Dear PTA Board Members:

Here are a few suggestions I made today at the IUSD website (this is the only time I have made online suggestion to IUSD). Hoping IUSD team will take a look at them...

Three Cost Saving Programs

1. Seek Corporate Sponsors for various utilities where IUSD spends monthly amounts - Water, Electricity, Gas, Trash, etc. Ask for Corporate Sponsors to support us for the utilities.
2. Seek unpaid Teacher Volunteers (certified) to fill in and help Classroom Teachers. These teacher volunteers could be retired teachers, or certified candidates who are seeking employment with IUSD. The Teacher Volunteer program can be a training program for would be new teachers. We can use such volunteers to fill in for Furlough days and also help teachers during regular school days.
3. Allow PTA to directly help for the Personnel. PTA can provide financial support to hire more teacher assistants, teacher helpers, teacher volunteers, etc. to help alleviate the classroom size.

Cost Savings

1. Allows significant cost savings from all the utility bills.
2. Allows significant cost savings by leveraging volunteers.
3. Allows cost savings by utilizing existing PTA monies.

Revenue Opportunities

1. IUSD has been a model school district for dozens of years, and IUSD schools have been model and distinguished schools in Orange County and California.
Create a Case Study, Training Program and Development on how IUSD became one of the best school districts in all of California - and sell this program to school districts across California & beyond who are looking to improve their schools.

2. Provide more ways for corporations to partner with schools - at least at the high school level - so that we can leverage more corporate dollars. How to do this? For example, have Taco Bell come and deliver presentations on healthy eating, and how Taco Bell helps. Same with Subway and more... Corporations get face time with high school students (their customers), and IUSD gets sponsorship dollars... In short, find more creative ways for Corporations to partner with IUSD schools.

Sincere regards,
Sanjay Dalal, Entrepreneur
PTA Treasurer, Turtle Rock Elementary School
School Site Council Member, Turtle Rock Elementary School

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Value of Training (CSPO)

What's Scrum training worth?

I am about to lead a Certified Scrum Product Owner course. (2 days, in NYC and a bit later in Saratoga Springs.) The question comes up...what is this course worth?

I explain this in more detail in the course, but here's the summary.

In the course we talk about many things, and hope to get many improvements. Imagine, though, that we only make 2 improvements to a Product Owner. And that PO manages only one Team.

Assume the Team costs about $1 million all-in per year. Team of about 8 people.

Assume the Team currently produces about $3 million per year in NPV (net present value, a core way of measuring business value). (Microsoft seems to be averaging about a 5:1 ratio or better overall.)

OK. We teach Sam, the PO, how to create 20% better stories. So, instead of $3 million per year, the team can get $3.6 million per year.

Now, we also teach him the Pareto Rule, and how to work it all the time. (80% of the value comes from 20% of the work.) Now, we and Sam aren't perfect, so Sam comes back only able to execute the 85-33 rules, ie, 85% of the value in close to double the 20% of the time that Pareto's rule calls for.

OK, this means in 33% of a year, the Team can get 85% of $3.6 million. Let's round down and call that $3 million. We assume Sam (and the firm) can find more work of the same value. So, in the next 33% of a year, the Team produces another $3 million in BV. And in the last third of that year, the Team produces another $3 million in BV. So, now we have $9 million in BV in one year. A 3x improvement. (I will note we assume that the Team did *not* increase Story Point velocity at all. No other impediments removed...very conservative assumption.)

Even if we (the teacher and Sam) don't immediately achieve quite the same level of improvement we assumed (which itself was far from perfection), I think you can see that, a million here, a million there, pretty soon you're talking real money. And, in my opinion, those improvements alone justify the costs for the 2-day course. Even in a serious recession.

What do you think?

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By Luis Galarza - Internet Marketing Strategies.

The Perfect Example On How Bad Pictures Can Kill Your Lead Generating Landing Page!

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By Luis Galarza - Marketing Training.

Just And Case You Missed Them... Here Is The List Of My Best Internet Marketing Articles From February 2008, Pick By...!

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Here are the list of my best Internet marketing articles from February 2008, and how the articles were picked:

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Each Internet marketing article were picked base on the traffic that created for this blog. I did it this way because the more traffic an article generates means that blog post had a good topic that entrepreneurs are interest in, plus had more one way back links.

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In Conclusion: Learn as much as you can from the Internet marketing articles above, and please let me know if you think I miss a blog post you think it should part of this list, or if an article that shouldn't be here.

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To your success,

Luis Galarza, Internet Marketing Consultant Massachusetts.

About Author: Luis Galarza is a respectable Internet Marketing and Small Business Consultant in the area of Leominster and Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Also, he had teach 100's of entrepreneurs how to make money online and offline without their own product.

A proud member of

The International Association of Home Business Entrepreneurs

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