Re: Organizations with two or more Managers

"DBMS_Plumber" <paul_geoffrey_brown_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1104275498.305568.4860_at_z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> It might be OK if the management chain was hierarchical, but that ain't
> so. Project managers might have responsibility for several projects,
> some of which involve the same individual contributors.
>
> What's worse, it ain't even a-cyclic! An individual might be a
> contributor on project A, a manager of project B, and manage people
> with certain skills in role C, one of whom is the manager of project A!
> The landscape of modern business organizations is less and less
> 'command and control' and more and more 'social networking with shared
> goals and responsibilites.'

But then, we are talking about ordinary relational structure, not hierarchy or network. There are Projects, ProjectManagers, and ProjectIndividualContributors. (That's right, project contributors aren't managers:-). The queries "does any individual who manages project X is also an individual contributor to Project Y managed by Z" are sometimes interesting. The queries that are transitive closures of the previous one -- "show me the longest chain of ProjectManager-IndividualContributor" -- aren't. Received on Wed Dec 29 2004 - 00:53:25 CET