Best Practices when adding resouces to a project

Hello,

What is the best practice for who you add to a project. Here at CSU our I.T. department has a director, two managers (each in charge of three teams) and six team leaders (for six teams). The team leaders are project managers. Today a project manager made a comment on her project and input her manager's e-mail address to notify him of the comment. Shouldn't the project managers have to include their managers on each project so the managers who have visibility to the project?

What do you think is the best practice here?

Dawn McIntosh
I.T. Professional
Information Systems
Colorado State University
970-491-5747
dmcintos@colostate.edu<mailto:dmcintos@colostate.edu>

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Asked by Dawn McIntosh on Mon 3/30/15 4:50 PM
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Aaron Crane Mon 3/30/15 4:50 PM

Hi Dawn,

I hope you're well. I don't know if there is a best practice per se. However, I generally would recommend adding any one that is doing work on the project as a resource. However, if they are only to be informed than I would add as a stakeholder. Doing so adds these individuals to the "Notification" area of the update status window. You can always "write-in" another person if you need to do ad-hoc notifications.

Additionally, I would suspect most of these folks have some level of reporting access. You may consider creating a report so that status can be viewed without the need to notify (I'm not a big fan of more email...I'd rather consume in a report).

I hope this helps. Let us know if you have other questions. I've also posted this as a question in our Client Portal to see if some of our user community might want to weigh in.

Best regards,

Aaron Crane
Director of Client Services
TeamDynamix

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