What is progress chaser?

Answer 1

Progress chaserA team needs someone who is responsible for ensuring that the team is keeping to the schedule that the team members have set themselves and ensuring that they will meet the external deadlines that have been given to them. Such a person should monitor progress, ensuring that everyone is doing what they are supposed to and that all the tasks that need to be completed by a particular date are on schedule before the deadline and have been completed once the deadline has passed.

In a small team this may be undertaken by the team leader. In a large team the role of progress chaser may be supported by a timekeeper who monitors how much time is spent on each item in team meetings. In synchronous meetings it is easy to spend too much time on the first few items of a long agenda, leaving too little time to discuss the later items. A timed agenda allots time to each item. In asynchronous collaboration a similar function may be needed, although usually an end-time is set for each asynchronous discussion. In this case the timekeeper may need to allocate periods for discussion and ensure that these are coordinated with the milestones of the project.