On Tue, 24 Feb 2015, Craig Constantine wrote:
(disclosure: I'm not a proj mgr, I am not good at pm, and I do not want to be
a pm for lopsa.)
The more I try to help actually do things, the more I'm working with other
volunteers who seem to be very over-worked. (Mind you, it seems they bring
this on themselves, rather than it being dumped on.) Several people I've
talked to, seem to be pulled between the "doing" and the "managing".
So without my spiralling off into examples, does my perception seem right to
anyone else?
Would it make sense, to try to wedge a general project manager into the LOPSA
org chart somewhere? ...someone tasked with keeping the global view of
everything we are doing as directed by the Board? ...someone to advocate for
resources when they see individual people getting over-burdened or projects
stalling? (I'm just free-thinking, not trying implying that's a list of ills
suffered by LOPSA.)
Even if it's not "allocating the resources" (because it's volunteer time), just
having someone checking on status on a not-too-frequent schedule can keep things
moving, and if they stall, can ask for help rather than the admin in question
just continuing to try and work through their backlog.
David Lang
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