QUESTION
How would expanding staffing in certain city government teams impact their effectiveness?
1:39:15
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Expanding the project management team offers potential to significantly improve city government operations.
- The size of the project management team directly affects its capacity to address issues.
- Both Restler and Steinberg acknowledge the importance of investing in parts of government that have a broad beneficial impact, like the project management team.
- Deeper integration and collaboration among different government teams are deemed necessary and smart for better management.
- There's a vision for various teams complementing each other's work, with the project management team being central to this cooperation.
Lincoln Restler
1:39:15
And just in connection to where we started the conversation this afternoon.
1:39:20
Yes.
1:39:20
Some offices have been shifted out of ops, but you, like every other agency in the city, has an office in the city has, you know, seen some belt tightening and reductions in staffing.
1:39:33
If our performance management team was expanded, if our project management team was more than just nine people, would that help in better addressing some of these issues?
Dan Steinberg
1:39:44
I never turned down resources, and you know, I think we'll never be able to tackle every problem with city government.
1:39:51
But obviously, the the size of our project management team has real implications for for their capacity.
1:39:58
And and and they punch above their weight.
Lincoln Restler
1:40:01
I always think it's important to invest in the portions of city government that can have broad potential beneficial impact.
1:40:10
And when you've got a strong project management team that can help address crises and work through issues, it really does make a difference.
1:40:17
So I would certainly be supportive of that.
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1:40:19
And if
Dan Steinberg
1:40:19
I get to safe because you know the organization so well, it really what we're trying to establish are the sort of stronger connections between our teams in in the sense of they're serving as as resources to one another.
1:40:34
Right?
1:40:35
If the project management team needs to measure something better in order to know whether they're successful, they have a a team of experts that can help them develop indicators.
1:40:44
If somebody needs to run a regression analysis to see if if, you know, if what's the real cause of something.
1:40:51
We have really, you know, high powered data analysts that can do that.
1:40:55
And so the the long provision is for us to be complement one another in in a perfect world.
1:41:01
We're generating work for our project management team through the surveillance we're doing with performance management.
1:41:06
That's the world we wanna live in and to some extent we're we're getting there.
Lincoln Restler
1:41:10
I think that makes a lot of sense.
1:41:12
I think that in my experience, the units were siloed and the units would bring issues to deputy mayors.
1:41:21
And if deputy mayors cared, then it would ping back to potentially other units within ops to help.
1:41:26
And having deeper integration across the office seems really smart and it seems like a smart and sensible thing to do from a management standpoint.