Re: PM Woe

[Chris Borokowski <athloi -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

The PMO needed to deputize a replacement PMO when she left on vacation.
Instead, you've got anarchy and turf wars. Pick a leader, any leader,
and you'll do better than the directionless, petty mess you've
described.

--- James Barrow <vrfour -at- verizon -dot- net> wrote:

> I wrote the Document Creation doc and kept it fairly generic with our
> organization's departments fitting nicely within a RACI matrix.  The
> PMO
> signed-off on this...then she went on vacation.  This caused her PMs
> to
> submit all sorts of changes to the document and the document creation
> process.  The most glaring of these were that the TWs had to ask
> permission
> at every step of the process (permission to start a doc, permission
> to talk
> to a SME, permission to submit a doc, etc.)  It was absurd.

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