This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum: Topic #49 -Death by autonomy.

Here’s this week’s situation:

I’m an engineer at a well known search company (rhymes with frugal). My loosely structured team is big on indepenendence but is starting to be low on maintenance: there’s some work that needs to be done to support the work 4 or 5 of us are doing, but that no one really loves or wants to do. So often it doesn’t get done.

How to you make sure maintenance and grunt tasks actually get done (especially if you’re working in a highly independent environment (intentionally weak hierarchy))?

– Signed D.B.A.