Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Chris Gianelloni wrote: >> Now, perhaps what everyone would like, instead, would be status reports >> *where necessary* from certain projects? >> >> In fact, the council has been discussing asking a few projects about the >> status on some of their tasks. The main reason for this is for >> communications purposes. Basically, we'd just get a "Hey, where are you >> at on $x?" response from the teams. >> >> I don't *want* to drown projects in bureaucracy and paperwork. I want >> them to *accomplish* things, instead. > > I really like the concept of answering questions rather than giving > arbitrary reports. The problem is, sometimes nobody outside your project > knows the right questions to ask.
I was thinking more about this. What if, instead of these periodic status reports, you just send out a note when something interesting happens? There's no point in holding it back till your monthly required report, and it saves the trouble of the report when nothing's happening. Thanks, Donnie
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