Hi Jean
Please go on, we all know what leading a doc project is and the
necessity to have one person effectively and correctly managing and
organizing things with respect to every body.
You have already proven for years that you are the good person to do
that and this project need definitively some love.
Beside this, you have enough +1 to make sure you are legitimate in this
role (which is not a title, to make it clears again).
Kind regards
Sophie
On 26/04/2011 04:59, Jean Weber wrote:
On Saturday, April 23, 2011, David Nelson<comme...@traduction.biz> wrote:
I think that I'd prefer just to talk of a role acting as a responsive
central contact rather than a team leader as such.
I think we need both, and the two roles need not be done by the same
person. When I get home I'll try to find some of the earlier
discussions and put together a draft summarizing what I think we need
people to do in terms of getting new members started, coordinating
user guide production, liaising with other teams, etc etc.
People can be
highly active and available some of the time, but need to pull back a
bit at other times to deal with other things. So I prefer the
"leadership" to float and simply fall de facto on the most-active
member(s) of the team at a given moment.
The problem with that is: often no one steps up to do what needs to be
done. But I certainly agree that anyone can and should feel free to
take the lead on whatever interests them.
IMHO, each contributor should feel liberty of action and freedom to
take a lead role in an initiative, without feeling they have to defer
to an official or unofficial team leader.
Absolutely agree: no need to "defer". I certainly don't see the role
of "leader" in any way as "being in charge" in the sense of others
needing to "defer" to the leader.
I like the way people have
been discussing and negotiating together about work, without any one
person feeling they have a weightier opinion than someone else.
Again I agree, but as stated in my original note, several people have
asked for someone to lead the group. Perhaps Jeremy or others can say
what they would like the role of leader to encompass.
Actually what I am most interested In is the user guides, not the
whole overall documentation effort, and I would much prefer to have at
least one person taking responsibility for each book rather than one
person for all of them. But to get work done (books published),
sometimes (often) the ideal must give way to reality.
jean
On balance, I'd say no to a permanent team leader at this time.
-1
David Nelson
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