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[James Westby <james.westby@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 14:03:55 +0000, Jamie Bennett <jamie.bennett@xxxxxxxxxx> 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,

> 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.

> 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?

Thanks,

James