What to discuss with the CEO

[Rafik Dammak]

Hi Stephanie,


2018-04-06 9:59 GMT+09:00 Stephanie Perrin <
stephanie.perrin at mail.utoronto.ca>:

> Fair enough, Rafik.  But what do you want to talk to him about, prospects
> for world peace?
>
of course not about world peace ;)

> I do think that workload management is certainly a concern for the CEO,
> because he is directing the staff who support us, he is setting their
> objectives and goals, and we are the raw material they are working with, as
> the volunteers thrown into the process to produce output.
>

I would disagree here, with the whole IANA stewardship transition we are
talking about community being more in charge but now we want the CEO (and
the board?) to tell us what to do. it is contradictory in many aspects and
personally I dont support such mindset. We have to be more proactive. When
we initated 3 heavy PDPs in same time, we didn't factor basic project
management issues and that is why I meant by "wishful thinking" management.
For the staffing and resources, he will respond to you that is set in the
budget, operating planning and strategical plan that "community made" and
he is tied. We already made comments on the resourcing issues for FY19
budget, inclduign the one from Council. To be frank  he will dodge those
questions easily and can possibly direct to this for example
https://www.icann.org/news/blog/supporting-community-policy-and-advice-work-a-few-key-indicators
, telling that is up to community to make decisions and priority, and he
will follow what we decide.

again he indicated that he will propose some solutions for community input.
as you know at council we are also trying to improve things related to PDP
and their management, we are taking ownership of those issues.

Best,

Rafik

> On 2018-04-05 19:25, Rafik Dammak wrote:
>
> Hi Stephanie,
>
> just a small comment
> 2018-04-06 1:54 GMT+09:00 Stephanie Perrin <stephanie.perrin at mail.
> utoronto.ca>:
>
>> Please ask him where to find the Berlin group paper on ICANN.  It is not
>> listed on the website as far as I can see.
>>
>> Please ask him what to do about stakeholder burnout and the pressure on
>> review teams and pdps.
>>
>
> I have feeling we can guess right now his answer as he wrote in this blog
> post (https://www.icann.org/news/blog/budget-discussions-at-icann61)
> saying that he will come back with paper about reviews and also mentioned
> the PDP  . I doubt there will be any new answer on this, as he also talked
> about during Puerto rico meeting.
> tbh I am wondering why we would ask the CEO on those matter. some workload
> is self-inflected as we are still not doing a better "program management"
> and prioritization, and functioning with "wishful thinking" management.
> There are some work intiated by ICANN and board that can be reprioritized
> and put less burden on us.
> there is some irony as those issues have a feeling od deja-vu as they were
> matter of discussion with Fadi and SO/AC leaders few years ago and there
> was some attempt at that time....
>
> Best,
>
> Rafik
>
>>
>
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