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Project Manager Promotion Criteria

Project Manager Promotion Criteria

Overview

Audience: Subteam leads.

This document is intended to guide the selection process for a new project manager and is to be used by subteam leads.

Criteria

General:

  • Is a subteam member for at least 1 term

  • Actively participates in subteam meetings

  • Completes assigned tasks reasonably on time

  • Collaborates well with subteam members

  • Motivated to lead a project

Category

Able to:

Category

Able to:

Technical: Understand the system, in detail and as a whole, to constribute to its improvement.

  • Contribute to defining project objectives, scope, and plans

  • Justify and challenge design decisions, tradeoffs, and limitations

  • Understand the expected behaviour of the project and components

  • Understand how the project integrates with other projects

  • Triage issues and rapidly narrow down potential sources of error

  • Ensure maintainable and testable components

  • Maintain and update integration testing methods (e.g. SITL, HITL)

  • Maintain and update tooling

Vision: Direction, growth, and development of the team.

  • Provide clear direction and technical goals for a working system

Initiative: Proactive action.

  • Identify and mitigate technical risks

  • Create tasks with minimal interdependencies (i.e. decoupled)

  • Take ownership of technical challenges

  • Research and experiment with new tools and technologies

  • Revisit design decisions

Prioritization: Allocation of resources, due dates, and setting goals.

  • Estimate time and resource usage for tasks

  • Reevaluate and take corrective action for tasks that exceed time and resource estimates

  • Make decisions prudently with consideration to the impact of other projects and subteams

Collaboration: Communication, coordination, and leadership.

Administration: Organization of procedures

  • Express ideas clearly and concisely in writing

  • Record design decisions and justification

  • Maintain technical documentation

  • Attend meetings, scheduling any additional if necessary

 

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