Trial Seven: Change is Bad When taking on a new position you will have to balance the need to make changes, but not too many. Change must be needed since they offered you the position. Unless they hired you and specifically said not to change anything and to just maintain what was going on, then […]
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Trial Six: The Blame Game Ever get blamed for something that you did not do? Ever try to blame a mistake you made on something or someone else? The challenge for a new CAD Manager may be either one of these, but I want to assume that you are not the time to always try […]
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Trial Five: A CAD Meltdown A nuclear meltdown is a term for a severe nuclear reactor accident that results in core damage from overheating. Accidental damage can happen in CAD also. A meltdown is when the project gets a major derailing, a critical piece of hardware fails at the most inopportune time, software explodes in […]
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Trial Four: The Smartest Guy in the CAD Room – Thinking you know it all Sometimes a new CAD Manager will think that they know everything that there is to know about the tools they use. This feeling comes from the fact that they are most likely the smartest guy in the CAD room and […]
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Trial Three: Ambiguity of your Duties: What am I supposed to do? Sometimes new managers really do not have a full understanding of what they are to be doing. Most have a good grip on what it took to get them the position, but if they are growing into the spot, they may not see […]
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Trial Two: The Constriction of Having No Control Trial number two is related to number one (The Authority Challenge) but it relates to not having control. You have no control over key areas that impact your success. This relates to people and projects. Symptoms of this Trial: The existing workforce that you have to work […]
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Bentley Systems, Incorporated today introduced the shared OpenRoads information modeling functionality in its InRoads, GEOPAK, and MXROAD V8i(SELECTseries 3) products for roadway design. … Users of any or all of these products can now benefit from shared innovations that increase the potential of information modeling in road design, construction, and operations. The new functionality advances what’s possible in civil design through […]
Becoming a new CAD Manager can be a joyous time in your career path. You have finally achieved something that you have sought after for years. You have been recognized by the firm for all of the contributions you have made. You have gotten a title that you were seeking and know that you can […]
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Coming to the end of this series with just a few more items to post. 7. Procedures are a means to an end, not written in stone. Average CAD Managers usually have good CAD Standards. They know their stuff and they get the document created and distributed. They also get people to follow the standards. […]
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