Team Member Accountability

[jstrieb]

Some members of my team spent part of the summer designing a solution to this exact problem. In order to streamline team member accountability and job delegation we developed a team member front-end and a team leader front-end where team leaders put in jobs they need done and they either specify a member to whom the job should be delegated, or they let the system delegate it for them. We made it with an SQL database (to log jobs and team members' "accounts") with PHP forms connected to the team website. At the end of the job, both the team member and team leader rate the job based on how much they like it and how well it was done (respectively) and the system learns which categories of jobs are preferred by which people.

This not only allows us to ensure everyone who is present is doing something relevant to the team that also needs to be done, but it is working towards our goal of everyone doing the job they most want to do and it promotes accountability where we can log (based on start and completion times) exactly what kind of effort each team member is putting in. We haven't used it during the season yet, but beta tests seem promising. If it works well we'll open-source the code.

We decided to code our own that is custom-tailored to our team's needs, but there are existing "job management systems" that you can google for that will also probably help if you are interested in managing your team members that way.