When to use it
Any project where “who owns this?” is fuzzy. The one rule that saves projects: exactly one Accountable per row. Too many C's and I's slow everything down โ be ruthless about who truly needs to be consulted versus merely informed.
List your tasks and people, then assign R / A / C / I in each cell to make ownership unambiguous โ and export to CSV.
Any project where “who owns this?” is fuzzy. The one rule that saves projects: exactly one Accountable per row. Too many C's and I's slow everything down โ be ruthless about who truly needs to be consulted versus merely informed.