[TYPO3-doc] Documentation Team leader job description

[François Suter]

Hi all,

As you are surely aware of, I'll be stepping down as team leader at the 
end of this year, which is getting near. No one has volunteered to pick 
up the position so far. In the hope of helping someone reach a decision, 
I have written a short "job description".

Please note that this is how *I* interpreted the job. It does not mean 
that whoever picks it up has to handle it the same way. Indeed each 
leader has his/her own take on the matter and that's perfectly okay.

It is also true that many things happened during my leadership and you 
may be afraid of not living up to that. You shouldn't. First of all I 
didn't do most of the work myself, I was mostly the manager. Second 
those achievements shouldn't be taken as a gold standard. The situation 
of the documentation has changed much, it is in far better state than 
before, so you can expect a more "quiet" period ahead (unless you want 
to launch your own big works).

Anyway, here are the tasks I handled as team leader (I handled others, 
but they are not related to the position itself):

- team management

Check what people are doing around documentation, be they team members 
or not. Put people in touch who have some common or complementary goals. 
Help foster discussion and decisions.

- team meetings

Organise and lead team meetings. Write and publish meeting minutes. We 
had a monthly schedule, but - again - that is not a gold standard.

- budget

Request budget for the following year. Manage current budget: review 
people's work, approve invoices, send to back office. This is probably 
the most tedious, especially since resources do not become magically 
available just because you have some money. This can be quite 
frustrating. OTOH having a budget allowed for having a code sprint, 
which was really nice (even though I lacked the energy to organise a 
second one).

- network with other team

Documentation touches a lot of aspects of our community. We need to 
collaborate with other teams for various reasons. The team leader does 
not need to handle everything him/herself. Tasks can be delegated to 
other team members.

That's it really. Feel free to ask questions if you would like to know 
more or feel like I have forgotten something.

Cheers

-- 

Francois Suter

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