On 1 Dec 2010, at 17:19, James Westby wrote: > On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 14:03:55 +0000, Jamie Bennett <[email protected]> > wrote: >> I do not want to spend more time on trying to 'sell' the idea, I'd rather be >> fixing the problem at hand. > > You have a lot of people to 'sell' to in order to get this adopted > across the organisation,
Right and hopefully pilots like this will show the benefits. >> This is a problem that was highlighted through-out the >> last cycle and is even more important for the coming 6 months. Its a >> deficiency >> that has been an issue for everyone from engineers right through to upper >> management and our partners, and needs to be addressed as soon as possible. >> To >> that end I have put together a straw proposal at: >> >> https://wiki.linaro.org/JamieBennett/ProjectManagementPilot > > Thanks for putting this together. My main issue with it is that I think > you have significantly underestimated the time it will take to iterate > on the project plan. Thats what a pilot is for, to highlight issues like this. >> which I hope is enough to get this moving soon. I have offered to carry the >> overhead of helping the engineer(s) to define the specification in a more >> project >> management orientated way, closely monitor the project itself and produce the >> post-mortem, this should just be a matter of selecting a project from the >> infrastructure team and allocating a minimal amount of time for the reporting >> overhead (all time estimations are on the above wiki page). > > Do you have a preference on which project to run the pilot with? It needs to a project with 2-4 engineers participating and lasting 1-2 months, thats the only requirements. If this isn't possible we could move to one of the other groups such as power management or the landing teams. > Thanks, > > James Regards, Jamie. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~linaro-project-management Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~linaro-project-management More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
