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[SOLVED] Responsible vs accountable on Today screen

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23 Mar 2021 09:36 #1 by cmarti
Hello,

I would like to understand what is the difference in between "being responsible" versus "being accountable" on the Today screen.

How can we change the "accountability" - is it always linked to the responsible of the ticket?

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23 Mar 2021 15:46 #2 by mkavurcic
the difference originates in Roman law (dolus in eligendo) - "the responsible" is the guy who made the mess and "the accountable" is the guy who empowered him

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23 Mar 2021 15:56 #3 by cmarti
dear mkavurcic,

Thanks for this answer. Let's say that my question was a bit more ProjeQtOr centric to understand how to set the accountable person (as the responsible is clearly set on tickets, actions, activities, ...

 

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23 Mar 2021 16:09 #4 by mkavurcic
it depends on your Project Organization - i.e. responsible for ticket can be a team member who works on or coordinates tasks, and accountable can be a team leader

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23 Mar 2021 16:17 #5 by babynus
Hi,

Accountable is defined only for Tickets.
We had to distinguish for tickets 
 - The accountable = the one who will ensure things are done (en français : le responsable)
 - The responsible = the one who executes (en français : l'acteur)
As we already have for activities (and sure names are coherent with tickets)
 - The responsible = the one who will ensure things are done (en français : le responsable)
 - The assigned resources = the ones who execute (en français : les acteurs)

When designing ProjeQtOr, at first, we fell in the ambiguity of RACI definition from French to English
English RACI stands for : Responsible, Accountable, Controller, Informed
French RACI has several translation : Responsable, Acteur, Contrôleur, Informé : there Responsibility and Accountability are switched from A to R

At first, ProjeQtOr only had Responsible, which was in French "Responsable"
So, when we has to make difference on ticket between Actor and Accountable, we has to keep Responsible unchanged because it was used for rights management, so we introduced Accountable.

As a summary :
 On Activities : the field Responsible stands for the Accountable, Actors are Assigned resources
 On Tickets : the fields Accountable stands for the Accountable, Actor is the Responsible
 On all others : the field Responsibles stands for Accountable and Responsible (is the actor is accountable for the item)

 

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