Dirty Dozen for keynote finding shenanigans

1. What?
     -I'm finding the keynote speaker, that's what! We've been talking in class about some interest in Visions alumni, so I'm aiming for that. Shannon has also mentioned that the last few speakers have been women, so I'm slanting the search towards men, but not ruling anyone out just yet.

2. Customer?
     -Technically I'm not selling anything, but I guess I am "selling" the class on a speaker and "selling that speaker on the idea of coming to hang with us, so i guess those two things are my customer base.

3. Deliverables?
     -Tangibly, my only deliverable would be a speaker at the end of this search.
       Intangibly, I can get us a little more exposure to the outside world as well as bring back some inspiration to the class and students who attend Visions by showing them some successful folks who aren't to far ahead of them in life.

4. Budget?
     - Right now, I'm not spending anything. the budget will come in later when we look into flying the speaker here. that said, the budget will stay at the front of my mind in the search, because some of these peeps I'm looking at are kinda far flung in the world.

5. How long?
     -ASAP, really. the sooner I have a speaker locked in, the sooner we can plan for them. I'm making contact this week, I'll present the options t the class and we'll talk about them some and narrow down some choices. then I'll present those options with an invitation to see who's interested. I'm hoping this will take 3 weeks to a month tops, aiming for less than that.

6. Needed skills?
     -People skills to convince people of things

7. Special resources?
     -Not really, other than the budget later on.

8. Who is working on this?
     -Me! with periodic input and participation from the entire class.

9. Schedule? (long, aiming to be done a bit quicker)
     -sep 22 - present some choices to the class
     -sep 22-sep 29 - contact the narrowed down options about participating
     -sep 29 - final "top three" choice in class
     -sep 29-oct 6 - contact the options until one accepts
     -Oct 6 - present keynote speaker

10. Risks?
     -Biggest risk would be not getting a keynote speaker, but i don't think that'll happen. I'm confident that we'll have some interested parties.

11. Communicate?
     -I'll communicate with my team(programming) via fb chat

12. How to determine success?
     -Wether or not we have a keynote speaker on the day of the event.