[Build] RACI (responsible, accountable, consulted, informed)

[Naomi Most]

Greetings Rebooters,

TL;DR -- if your name was on the board yesterday, please start a
thread right now on the Build list to describe your area(s) of
Accountability and recruit help.

We talked last night about using the "Responsibility Assignment
Matrix" to manage our projects.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility_assignment_matrix

Click on that link to the expanded definitions.

Last night we attempted to assign an "accountable" role to each
project and collect any interested "consulting" or "responsible"
roles.

The "informed" role goes to the Build mailing list.  I'll read it
obsessively and occasionally pry for more information when I think
someone's missed some information that another project needs.

CONCERNS about this system:

There was a lot of mixup between "accountable" and "responsible" in
our discussion last night.  I was a little sleep-deprived and couldn't
keep them straight myself.

We may want to make the world easier *and* more fun for ourselves by
making up our own parallel system.  For example:

Accountable = BOFH
Responsible = Developer
Consulted = Bikeshedder
Informed = Mailing List

(We can do better than that, of course.)

Or we can just all agree to get really good at knowing the difference
between "responsible" and "accountable", but as a user interface, I
wouldn't call this nomenclature intuitive.

DISCUSS!  :)

Cheers,
Naomi


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