Comments on: Helpful Links http://jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2006/11/helpful-links.html Management, especially good management, is hard to do. This blog is for people who want to think about how they manage people, projects, and risk. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:41:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Esther Derby http://jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2006/11/helpful-links.html/comment-page-1#comment-502 Esther Derby Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:56:46 +0000 http://jrothman.com/blog/mpd/?p=8017#comment-502 Johanna -- You said: "..the working definition I have of project manager is: the person who knows what "done" means and can steer the project to accomplish "done." I suspect there's some short hand here, AND I'd add that the project managers definition of done needs to match the customers definition of done. The project manager isn't the only person who needs to know what "done" means. The team needs to know, too. Without that information, they're at a disadvantage and can't manage thier own work. The team also needs to know what "done" means for each piece of work they are doing.... does it mean the code compiles? does it mean code written and passes developer unit tests, customer acceptance tests? Documented? So there are different flavors of "done" and those definitions need to be widely understood. ED Johanna –
You said: “..the working definition I have of project manager is: the person who knows what “done” means and can steer the project to accomplish “done.”
I suspect there’s some short hand here, AND I’d add that the project managers definition of done needs to match the customers definition of done. The project manager isn’t the only person who needs to know what “done” means. The team needs to know, too. Without that information, they’re at a disadvantage and can’t manage thier own work.
The team also needs to know what “done” means for each piece of work they are doing…. does it mean the code compiles? does it mean code written and passes developer unit tests, customer acceptance tests? Documented?
So there are different flavors of “done” and those definitions need to be widely understood.
ED

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