Roles and Responsibilities

Hear the panel discuss the answers to our Monday question - Why are clearly defined roles & responsibilities so important? Including (even though he could not join us) Jason Vincelette's amazing answer from Monday around the importance of needing to understand by what actions and deliverables will be evaluated, how roles play into career aspirations, and alignment across the company around who does what. Also some great insight from Anita from the session on the same topic she had just (literally) done for PMI.

Hear why we think that more than 50% of companies do not feel comfortable with how clearly defined their roles were, and how Robert, after a large investment and a lot of work does feel comfortable.

Get our two-cents on our open-ended questions:

What is the biggest challenge when roles & responsibilities are not clearly defined or aligned?

What is more valuable, the clearly defined roles & responsibilities or the process to get to those clear definitions?

And get our Lightning Round answers from every panelist on "What is one word or phrase that captures the importance of clearly defined roles & responsibilities to a product team?" Where we had a great yes-and session and my focus on trying to come up with the Four As of Roles & Responsibility Alignment or potentially setting for the AAAE.

Agreement

Energizing (could Activating work Anita?)

Accountability

Alignment

and Steve decided to rant with"Why don't we all do our own damn jobs for a week and see how it works out, and if it doesn't we can always go back to the dysfunction we had before."

This week, Steve Johnson and Grant Hunter were joined by regular panelists Robert Goldberg, Jon Gatrell and Anita Wood.