Eng
Agreed. Your experience (in every sense) serves to highlight what I was saying. Increasingly, PMs haven't the slightest idea what an ILSM, and the rest of the disciplines I mentioned, are meant to do. Yet 30 years ago I couldn't be promoted into the lowest PM grade in PE without having filled ALL of these posts, and more; with the exception of DEC. That is why the rules/guidelines (still) say the PM must be able to do the jobs. To amend them makes it too obvious the posts are being dumbed down. The best MILSM / Reqts Mgr I ever came across (after the posts were militarised) was, surprise surprise, a WOII who'd been an Engineering Authority. (Wasn't you, as it?). The worst was a Colonel, who spent his tour jacking up sailing trips on the Solent (until they found out he was encouraging contractors to fund them). If you asked him to do his job, he simply lodged a complaint with the IPTL.
