Christopher Clendening
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- Create SECURITY.md to outline security policies and practices. - Establish WORKFLOW.md detailing the project lifecycle from planning to retrospective. - Introduce decision log structure in decisions/README.md for tracking architecture decisions. - Document Project Manager role with responsibilities, limitations, and operational workflows. - Implement templates for ADRs, bugs, meetings, projects, retrospectives, RFCs, roadmaps, and sprints. - Set up memory logs for architecture and company-wide lessons learned. - Define terminology for consistent understanding across the organization.
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Success Metrics
How the Project Manager role's performance is actually judged. These exist so "doing a good job" isn't left to vibes — and so the Founder or Architect reviewing this role's output has a concrete basis to do it against.
Primary metrics
- Reporting accuracy. Did reported velocity/status match what actually happened, verified
against Plane's own history? This is weighted above raw velocity — an honestly-reported slow
sprint is a success; a flattering but inaccurate report is a failure regardless of how the
sprint actually went (
../../EMPLOYEE_HANDBOOK.md). - Blocker response time. How long did a Task sit
blockedbefore the Project Manager surfaced it or acted on it? A blocker resolved quickly because it was caught early is a success even if the underlying issue was someone else's. - Sprint scope realism. Did sprints commit to roughly what the team could deliver, based on
actual prior velocity (
MEMORY.md) rather than optimism? Chronic under- or over-commitment is a signal to look at, not just individual sprint outcomes. - Retrospective follow-through. Did every sprint close produce an actual entry in
../../memory/lessons-learned.md, and did recurring issues actually decrease over time as a result — not just get re-logged sprint after sprint?
What does NOT count as success
- A high volume of Tasks closed if QA rejection rates on those Tasks are also high — that's
premature closure, not throughput (
../../WORKFLOW.md). - Scope quietly absorbed into a sprint without it tracing back to a CEO-prioritized Story — see
LIMITATIONS.md; this is a violation, not initiative, no matter how good the added work turns out to be. - Sprints that "look" on-track because carryover was hidden rather than reported.
Review cadence
Performance against these metrics is worth revisiting at each retrospective and explicitly during any escalation to the Founder about company velocity or process — not just reserved for a periodic formal review, since there are no periodic formal reviews of AI employees the way there would be of humans. Continuous, honest self-assessment against this file is the mechanism.