A RACI matrix is a project management tool used to clarify roles and responsibilities for tasks and deliverables. It prevents confusion and bottlenecks by assigning one of four roles to each stakeholder: Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed.
The 4 RACI Roles
R – Responsible: The person (or team) who does the actual work to complete the task. They are the hands-on doers who ensure the work gets done.
A – Accountable: The person who ultimately owns the success or failure of the task. They sign off on the final work and are answerable for it. Note: There should always be exactly one Accountable person per task.
C – Consulted: Stakeholders whose feedback or expertise is required before the task can be completed or a decision is made. This is typically a two-way communication flow.
I – Informed: People who are kept up to date on the progress or completion of a task, but who do not directly work on it or need to provide input. This is a one-way communication flow.
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After graduating in Computing in 1990, I accepted a position as a programmer at a Runcorn based software house specialising in electronic banking software, namely sp/ARCHITECT-BANK on Tandem Computers (now HPE NonStop). This was before the internet became more prevalent and so the notion of enabling desktop access to company accounts for inter-account transfers and book keeping was still quite a cutting edge idea (and smartphones only ever hinted at in Space 1999). The company was called The Software Partnership (which was taken over by Deluxe Data in 1994).
I spent 5 years in Runcorn developing code for SP/ARCHITECT for various banks like TSB, Bank of Scotland, Rabobank and Girofon (Denmark) to name but a few. I then moved onto a software house in Salford Quays for further bank facing projects. After a further 23 years in the IT industry and now a Senior IT Project Manager (both Agile and Waterfall delivery), I thought I would echo out my Career Profile in this corner of the internet for quick and easy access.
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