MoD to cut 1000 staff jobs.
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While I understand all you say, I think I need only cite long standing MoD policy.
Technical Project Managers MUST be able to fulfill ALL roles in their team, including Requirements Manager and ILS Manager (both of which have typically been serving officer posts since about 1995, as jobs had to be found for the huge surplus!!), Commercial, Finance, Quality, Risk, Engineering Authority, Support Authority and so on. ALL of these are learned at grades beneath the lowest PM grade, and they must display competence in them before promotion.
In further clarification, successive CDPs and Junior Ministers have directed that this requirement does NOT apply to non-technical PMs, or direct entrants. Nor are, for example, commercial or finance staff required to be able to fulfill jobs other than their own (although clearly many can).
Of course, we both know there are many PMs, both technical and non-technical, who cannot ever hope to achieve this level of functional competence. In my opinion, they should not be in the job.
Hope that makes my position clear. I don't make up the rules, but I have them in front of me.
You can always predict the problems on a project by the PM's background. And vice-versa.
While I understand all you say, I think I need only cite long standing MoD policy.
Technical Project Managers MUST be able to fulfill ALL roles in their team, including Requirements Manager and ILS Manager (both of which have typically been serving officer posts since about 1995, as jobs had to be found for the huge surplus!!), Commercial, Finance, Quality, Risk, Engineering Authority, Support Authority and so on. ALL of these are learned at grades beneath the lowest PM grade, and they must display competence in them before promotion.
In further clarification, successive CDPs and Junior Ministers have directed that this requirement does NOT apply to non-technical PMs, or direct entrants. Nor are, for example, commercial or finance staff required to be able to fulfill jobs other than their own (although clearly many can).
Of course, we both know there are many PMs, both technical and non-technical, who cannot ever hope to achieve this level of functional competence. In my opinion, they should not be in the job.
Hope that makes my position clear. I don't make up the rules, but I have them in front of me.
You can always predict the problems on a project by the PM's background. And vice-versa.
