Re: [apps-review] Suggested changes for Applications Area Review Team

[Dave Cridland <[e-mail]>]

On Tue Mar 22 19:01:03 2011, SM wrote:
> Hi Dave,
> At 08:44 22-03-2011, Dave Cridland wrote:
>> A term gives the option to step down - or be asked to step down -
>> with much less fuss.
> 
> I avoided the word "term" as I view the selection as informal.

Right, and for you that's a good thing.

As Dave Crocker points out, you're doing a sufficiently good job that  
you're distorting our perception of it. In addition, you're your own  
boss, which means you don't have to justify the time to anyone else,  
and nobody else is trying to do resource planning around you.

>   The conversation might go like this:

Or it might go:

Candidate: Boss, I've been asked to continue my APPs are tech review  
team lead position for another term of two years.

Boss: Okay.

Making a formal term sounds distastefully formal, I know, but it has  
the effect of being able to be presented to management .

Other conversation become easier, too:

AD: I'd like someone else to have a term of doing this, if that's  
okay?

Team Lead: OK, I'll step down at the end of the term.

Finally, a formal term may well help reduce burn-out - instead of  
"Can I do this position for another day?", the question becomes "Can  
I do this position for another term?" which is a lot easier to  
consider.

Dave.
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