Outline

This document is intended to guide the selection process for a new Project Manager and is to be used by directors and subteam leads. The candidate does not have to meet all the criteria points.

General Criteria

• The candidate has been member of the sub-team for at least 1 term

• Actively participates in sub-team meetings and has completed assigned tasks reasonably on-time

• Motivated to lead a project (or projects)

• Collaborates well with the rest of the sub-team

Management Criteria

• Communication: The project manager is able to convey the technical details of the project and its components in written form

• This includes task setting and Definition of Done (DOD)

• Able to delegate tasks

Technical Criteria

• Vision and goal

  • The project manager has a clear idea of what a finished project should be and do, in relation to the rest of the system(s)

• The project manager has knowledge of:

  • Theoretical background of the project

  • How the components of the project work in general

  • How the components interface (with clear definitions and reasons for the abstraction)

  • How the project behaves with various input

  • Which parts of the project are unit testable, and why

  • What needs to be done to set up an integration test framework around the project

  • Why design decisions and architecture is done in a particular way (e.g. tradeoffs, limitations)