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The Importance of Aligning Authority with Responsibility (2010)
- trhway 10y agothis is why i stopped accepting "delegation" [of responsibility of course as it has never been delegation of managerial authority and salary/bonus] from my managers long ago :)
- ggame 10y agoThis brings back nightmares I had from working at Microsoft (2009). As a PM; responsibility without authority was the job description. Hallway estimates and schedule chicken was 70% of the job. And the there was stack ranking...
- awinter-py 10y agoNo argument that reliable estimation is hard. I think organizations that find conflict at the estimation stage are actually suffering from a shortage of design. For complex projects, design means R&D, and setting deadlines based on unfinished research can lead to failure or ballooning schedules.