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What is a Responsibility Assignment Matrix?

The most important resource in a project coordination is human, so we need to maintain our labor correctly and make everything clear in project management. It is very important everyone to know what they are doing and what they are not doing. Here Responsibility Assignment Matrix comes in. It is a powerful tool in project management.

Here you can see a Responsibility Assignment Matrix Example (Source: StakeHolderMap)

Responsiblity Assignment Matrices are also known as RACI Matrix. Here RACI is the abbreviation of Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed. It is basically used to clarify that who is working which part of the project in teams doing a whole task in distributed parts. Here it is very important to clearly express the borders of the subtasks.

  • R - Responsible: Responsible is the person or multiple persons who are in charge of execution of the task.
  • A - Accountable: Accountable is the authority who finally checks, controls and approves the task. It is recommended having a unique accountable for every single task.
  • C - Consulted: Consulted is the agent who is asked for opinions and progress of the task is discussed with.
  • I - Informed: Informed is the group who is informed about the whole process of the given task.

Above given distribution is of course not the single method to do it. There are numerous versions of doing this but this is the commonly used one. PARIS notation is one of those. To exemplify: P - Perform, A - Accountable, C - Control, S - Suggest, I - Informed.

It should be created in the beginning of project, not in the middle or not in the end.

Steps of creating Responsibility Assignment Matrix:

  1. Identify the team members that are going to work on the project.
  2. Identify the deliverables and define their borders extensively.
  3. Meet the team members and discuss who can assume responsibility on which tasks.
  4. Create Responsibility Assignment Matrix and share with team members.

Note That: There are online tools and websites that are helpful creating those tables.