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5 reasons to have someone leading a project

Without creating a knowledge silo and alienating your team

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Fran Soto
May 26, 2024
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There’s nothing more painful than starting a task, only to realize it’s blocked.

This happened to me last week.

We had discussed 2 options to release a feature. We agreed verbally on going with option A/. When I picked my task, I realized we had moved toward option B/. My task didn’t apply and we were missing some other tasks.

There are a lot of decisions made in the middle of projects.

It’s not enough to write a technical design and align it at the beginning.

The project needs a dedicated Point Of Contact (POC).

In this post, we’ll see how to have a POC for your projects to ensure a smooth delivery

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👑 Reasons to have a well-defined POC

💬 Project planning and coordination

A designated POC can start communication with dependencies from the beginning.

If you push this to a task in the sprint, once the conversation starts it will block the task until finished. Instead, parallelize async communication by starting t…

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