Friday, November 2, 2007

Task Thrashing

I'm suffering from no clear direction by my project managers. I'm not sure if it is the way people have learned to do project management where I work of it is an issue with the project I'm on, but on regular basis what I'm asked for a status on changes. Unfortunately, it has nothing to do with previous tasks getting done.

I suspect this has something to do with the total chaos that is the requirements and there being no real prioritizing of them. Additionally there's no clear indicator of who needs to work on each requirement. Which I presume leads to complete confusion when trying to figure out what they are expecting to be done next.

I'm not sure what would be the biggest impact to getting clarity on this, but I suspect breaking down the requirements into smaller bite-sized chunks and letting the development team figure out who should work on them and not trying to assign them at requirement creation time might help.

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