traffic-manager.md

description
A team who manages, analyze and resolve issues in resource assignment and daily log practice.

Traffic Management

Traffic

Traffic is the term we use for managing resources in development state. Here are the responsibilities

Responsibility	Day to day activity	Note
Resource allocation forecast	To forecast resource allocation up to 1 or 2 months onwards (including pandora too)	Assisted by Hokage
Resource allocation planning	Create allocation resource plan for each project Resolve shared resource issues in daily basis Communicate the plan to PM and PgM via Monsi, PM group chat or other meetings.	Assisted by Hokage
Resource allocation monitoring	Monitor and control daily resource allocation based on the plan. Make sure no resource is in idle state.	Based on daily log vs estimation & plan
Resolve and clarify resource issues	Analyze and resolve resource issues in daily basis for both PM and coaster's point of view	Issues like below: When a team or PM don't have any resources while the project status is urgent. On the contrary, resource of a project is urgently shifted to other project due to higher priority level. When there is a coaster/resource is not properly managed. Issues when a coaster is assigned to so many projects at the same time.

You can check the guideline below regarding how to do resource assignment for both Traffic/Development and Pandora.
Resource Assignment - What & How

Pandora

Pandora is a term we use in managing project in pandora project. Pandora is a status when a project is still in a pitching state. So, it's not deal with RGB yet. But we still need to prepare the resources if the it finally deal.

Responsibility	Day to day activity	Note
Manage pandora execution process	Manage task ticketing via Proofhub (BA, design, PgM)
Resource allocation forecasting	Create a resource allocation planning for pandora if the pandora deal.

Daily Log

Test

Responsibility	Day to day activity	Note
Daily log monitoring	Check the daily log in daily basis Enforce daily log fulfilment Monitor the daily log accuracy Escalate any daily log issues to the traffic team and the respective PMs.	Settle any issues that can be settled directly (by the daily log manager) and report to the traffic team.
Recap and analyze the daily log	Recap and report weekly mandays usage or based on the cycle (via Data Studio)
Resource allocation monitoring	Monitor and control the daily resource allocation based on the plan	e.g make a report or a list about which resources are idle in the previous week.
Daily log format check	Ensure daily log format that written by every coaster is correct	incorrect format incorrect content incorrect concept lack of detail undisciplined
Assessment support	Comparing mandays usage with result delivered, quality, and the pace