On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Erik Moeller <e...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 5:45 PM, George Herbert <george.herb...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Has this been an observed issue within the WMF? > > In some areas. In my view, a well-functioning agile team is > self-organizing and self-managed, and it's a manager's job to > primarily set that team up for success, hire the right people, replace > the people who aren't working out, and help escalate/resolve blocker > or coordination issues outside the team's scope. Putting so much > responsibility on the team's shoulders is in my opinion a good thing, > because it treats them as adults accountable and responsible for the > success or failure of their own work. > > Where we're trying to complete complex projects with a part of a > person's time here, a part of a person's time over there, we lean > heavily on managers to help with the resource scheduling and project > organization, and that's where things are currently getting iffy at > times. In our 2012-13 hiring plan submission, we're proposing a > Dev-Ops Program Manager position to help with some of the particularly > hairy cross-coordination of complex, under-resourced backend projects > with operations implications (an example of that kind of project is > the SWIFT media storage migration). > > There'll likely also be another layer of depth in the org chart as we > grow and evolve further, but that's something to do very carefully > because it increases real or perceived distance between people, and > making people managers of 1-2 people is fairly inefficient. > -- > Erik Möller > VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation > > Support Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Sounds like a good thought out, informed answer. Thanks. -- -george william herbert george.herb...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
