Project Management - Roles and Responsibilities Matrix

Background

This Excel template is an abstraction from the Rational Unified Process which associates RUP Roles to specific artifacts within a project and associates these using a modified RASCI chart to project participants.  This is intended to be a lightweight tool that shows at a glance the artifacts that have been identified in the Development Case and who is responsible for creating them.  I have, in the past, used hyperlinks between the artifact names and role names to an installation of the Rational Unified Process if this is available enterprise-wide.  The term RASCI is an acronym used in process workflows to delineate who is Responsible for the work, Approves the work, Supervises the work, Consults on the work and should be Informed of the work.  The attached matrix only uses Responsible and Consulted but it could easily be extended to include the complete RASCI format.  Instructions on the use of the matrix are included as a Tab in the spreadsheet.

References

Bryan Campbell - May 2003