Role: Review Coordinator
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The Review Coordinator role is responsible for facilitating formal reviews and inspections, and ensuring that they occur when required and are conducted to a satisfactory standard. |
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Description
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 artifacts. This role is responsible for:
- Ensuring that required reviews are conducted
- Ensuring that the appropriate review attendees are included and notified with appropriate review details
- Conducting the review in an appropriate and efficient manner
- Ensuring that follow-up activities 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.
Related Information
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Staffing
Skills
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:
- Planning and Organizational skills
- Diplomacy including dispute resolution skills
- Facilitation skills
- The ability to enable productive collaboration
Role assignment approaches
This role can be assigned in the following ways:
- 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.
- 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.
- In larger team, administrative staff may act as meeting facilitators, freeing up domain experts to participate actively in the review.
Further Information
See the references page for further information.
