Nature abhors a vacuum (Aristotle)
A former client of my agency (with the same technical Project Manager) used considerable effort in the implementation of the following PM-rule:
" for every possible situation that could occur in the project, there must be a responsible person. This must be identified before the situation occurs, and this must be verified to have committed "(so I've combined the rhymes of at least ...)
There are two motivations:
first It facilitates the work massively because of friction losses avoids. A TPM should be made as quickly communicate with his colleagues, who wrote what part of the standard rates calculated whether the technical requirements are described fully or supported by the concepts of the technology has to be whether the TPM has to organize the testing or someone else will do this . With the customer to a vote, to be carried out in what form the acceptance, which can count on Vosständigkeit materials provided you who do the sequence in which programming interfaces for the integration of two systems, etc. must
second More importantly, it helps in case of doubt it, "keep their own yard clean. If you encounter an awkward situation one is well advised to take a message from his pocket to be able to show that someone else is responsible.
And because one could argue here that it is more important not to make good projects than his time with Machiavellian political stuff to it versus me on this issue a declaration allowed:
- If a project is something really goes wrong question No one on whether one has ever done as a great content TPM job. In the extreme case is no longer possible to continue to make good projects: "The Tenth as technical project manager for such an important thing Let me see, that was such a debacle at Y, we can not really use again ... "
- Ob man will oder nicht, wenn ein Auftraggeber (Kunde, Chef oder andere Abteilung) einem den schwarzen Peter zuschiebt, muss man sich dazu äußern.
- In der Regel ist die Beweislast umgekehrt, als Projektmitglied muss man nachweisen dass man alles richtig gemacht hat. Das ist im Zweifelsfall ausgesprochen aufwendig. Für die Möglichkeit, eine Mail der Form " sorry, aber hatten wir nicht vereinbart (siehe angehängte Mail), dass Sie sich um die rechtzeitige Buchung des externen Dienstleisters kümmern? " schreiben zu können ist man dann dem Herrn dankbar.