[Opendnssec-develop] OpenDNSSEC Project Management

[Rick van Rein]

Hello,

I hope you are not leaving us, Roy.  I am also looking forward to having
the beer we planned to have here in Enschede.

> To be clear: I still want the proof of concept (PoC) version, albeit 
> without IXFR.

I also think the smallest working version is the best place to start.
But it may also be good to already be aware of future extension needs,
so the structures will be prepared.

> However, due to a busy agenda, and the unforeseen amount of work for this 
> project, I'm handing projectmanagement over to Rickard Bondesson. 

This is not as democratic as I had expected this to be.  Actually, I
wonder if anyone on this list is an optimal choice of a project manager.

Being technicians, we all have a tendency to dive into details, and I
have consistently seen that on the list.  It is our thing!  But when I
think of a project manager I imagine someone to monitor the structure,
while staying at an arm's length of detail.  Issues that play in the
mind of a project managers are not key stores or zone wire formats but
ought to deal with cost, time, and scope.  I think we could use someone
like that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_manager
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_management

Rickard, note that this is not about you as a person.  Roy, note that I
like that you are assigning a replacement instead of dropping the whole
thing.

I propose to ask Roy or Rickard to act as an interim project manager,
and in the mean time look in our organisations if we can bind in
someone with a more structural style of monitoring, preferrably a senior
engineer who converted into a project manager.  As much as I value
actual coding and not just theorising about a would-be product, I think
we are in urgent need of more structural documentation, in the form of
requirements, designs and milestones/timelines.   I for one need more
overview over the project than what I've collected up till now. Just
starting to code doesn't honour the importance of OpenDNSSEC.


Cheers,
 -Rick
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