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| This role facilitates formal reviews and inspections, ensures that they occur when required, and verifies that they are conducted to a satisfactory standard. |
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Main Description
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The Review Coordinator role is
responsible for managing the review process. Reviews can be generalized into two main categories: management reviews of
project progress and technical reviews of project work products. This role is responsible for the following:
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Ensuring that required reviews are conducted
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Ensuring that the appropriate review attendees are included and notified with appropriate review details
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Conducting the review in an appropriate and efficient manner
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Ensuring that follow-up tasks that result from the review are managed to closure
When staffing this role, you need to consider both the skills required for the role and the different approaches you
can take to assigning staff to the role.
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Properties
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Staffing
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It is important for a person playing the Review Coordinator role to have the ability to facilitate groups of
people collaborating effectively. Ideally, a person playing this role should have the trust and respect of all the
attendees involved in the review process.
The appropriate skills and knowledge for this role include:
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Planning and Organizational skills
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Diplomacy including dispute resolution skills
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Facilitation skills
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The ability to enable productive collaboration
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| Assignment Approaches |
This role can be assigned in the following ways:
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Assign a person to the Review
Coordinator role on a case-by-case basis for each review. This is a common approach for small teams and is
particularly suitable for teams of any size where the team has a high degree of trust and respect. This approach
works particularly well where the team is made up of an experienced group of individuals of relatively equal skill
level.
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In a small to mid-sized team, someone playing the Project Manager role may also take on the Review Coordinator responsibility.
Sometimes, team leads may take on this role.
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In larger team, administrative staff may act as meeting facilitators, freeing up domain experts to participate
actively in the review.
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