Kenen vastuulla?

Softaprojektien kentillä törmää valitettavan usein tilanteisiin, missä asioiden tekeminen on 1) jonkun toisen henkilön vastuulla tai 2) ei kenenkään vastuulla. Molemmat tilanteet tuottavat harmillisia viivästyksiä, turhaa asioilla pallottelua, ja kovin usein myös pallojen tipahtamista. Sen sijaan, että alkaisin itse tarinoimaan tämän enempää vastuun aiheesta, teenkin tilaa Charles Osgoodin kirjoittamalle nerokkaalle runonpätkälle:

There was a most important job that needed to be done,
And no reason not to do it, there was absolutely none.
But in vital matters such as this, the thing you have to ask
Is who exactly will it be who’ll carry out the task?

Anybody could have told you that Everybody knew
That this was something Somebody would surely have to do.
Nobody was unwilling; Anybody had the ability.
But Nobody believed that it was their responsibility.

It seemed to be a job that Anybody could have done,
If Anybody thought he was supposed to be the one.
But since Everybody recognized that Anybody could,
Everybody took for granted that Somebody would.

But Nobody told Anybody that we are aware of,
That he would be in charge of seeing it was taken care of.
And Nobody took it on himself to follow through,
And do what Everybody thought that Somebody would do.

When what Everybody needed so did not get done at all,
Everybody was complaining that Somebody dropped the ball.
Anybody then could see it was an awful crying shame,
And Everybody looked around for Somebody to blame.

Somebody should have done the job
And Everybody should have,
But in the end Nobody did
What Anybody could have.

Seuraavan kerran kun tunnet, että jotain tärkeää pitäisi tehdä, mutta et tiedä kenen se kuuluisi tehdä, kokeile tehdä se itse! Koska sinun kokemuksesi siitä, mitä myös elämäksi kutsutaan, on vain ja ainoastaan Sinun vastuullasi. Miksi antaisit kenenkään muun päättää siitä?