I am authorized to edit to our local team's manual

15th July 2016

If you already know about Manualization

If you know how to do Manualization (one of the Core Features of AMBIT), and just want to get on with it, go straight to + Manualize our work!

If you want to learn more about it:

See Learning about Manualization

"As an AMBIT-influenced team we want to + Manualize our work; to build, develop and share our own local expertise in doing this work, with these clients, in these streets."

What practical things do you need to get started:

In order to edit a local team's version of the manual you need:

  1. Your own local team's locally-adaptable version of the manual.
    1. If you don't have one and are reading this in someone else's version, or in the ambit 'core content' version that is curated from the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, then you can find how to get one for yourself at the @tiddlymanuals signposting site.
    2. Or go direct to Install a local, adaptable, version of ambit for me to get started.
  2. To be a Registered with TiddlySpace (you will have a username and a password.)
  3. To be a Member of your local team's manual.
  4. To be Logged in.
  5. Your manual switched to Edit mode (use the little panel, top right to select this option.)

What to do next

  • To start editing just go to + Manualize our work
  • So long as you are logged on and have the correct permissions (see above) you will see a list of buttons, that will allow you to generate new content.
  • NOTE: If you open the + Manualize our work page before you have switched to the Edit mode, you won't see the editing buttons - sorry! If so, just close the page, and then reopen it and you'll see the editing buttons!

When to do Manualization?

  • See How to do team manualization for more detail on this highly interactive and team-based aspect to AMBIT, using the TiddlyManual as the way to achieve this. (Wiki-Manualization is one of the Core Features of AMBIT.)
  • Teams are expected to engage in regular bouts of Manualization of their practice - recording how they agree to try to manage the specifics of implementing this work in their local setting.
  • This does not need to take ADDITIONAL TIME, but rather should be done as part of ordinary team meetings, much as minute-taking might be a part of day to day practice.

How? Why?

  • There should be a SCRIBE and a CHAIR to facilitate discussion - it is best if these two roles are not taken by the same person.
  • There are Manualization Boundaries to help clarify the rules - essentially, the team's version of the manual aspires to be representative of the working practices of that specific group of workers; recording material and practices that define their team culture, and which they would want a new worker joining the team to understand. ("The totem pole, or maypole, around which we dance")

How to do editing

See Understanding TiddlyManual format and Using the Manual, as well as specific instructions at Edit and the Video introduction to editing a tiddlymanual.