Re: Last gasp

On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On 04/15/2012 05:46 AM, Simon Riggs wrote:
>>
>> Our problem is not lack of resource, it is ineffective
>> delegation. As Hannu points out, he didn't know the patch would be
>> rejected, so he didn't know help was needed to save something useful.
>> I considered that the job of the CF manager, but perhaps it is was
>> not.
>
>
> Note that one of the influences on the "death march" here was lack of a
> fully devoted CF manager for the full duration.  I did some rabble rousing
> to get things started in the usual way, but my time for this only budgeted
> for six weeks in that role.  And that was quite optimistic for this one.
>
> Trying to quantify how much time investment the CF manager role really
> involves is one of my important projects to chew on.  Whoever ends up doing
> that should at least have an idea what scale of problem they're getting
> into.

Again, if the CF manager role is too big, then we delegate. No reason
why we can't have a CF team, with different people responsible for
different areas.

The key thing is working out how to mobilise the resources we have to
best effect.

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