{"id":2420,"date":"2011-05-25T07:47:52","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T14:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/?p=2420"},"modified":"2012-11-08T16:47:34","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T23:47:34","slug":"cad-manager-as-coordinator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/2011\/05\/cad-manager-as-coordinator\/","title":{"rendered":"CAD Manager as Coordinator"},"content":{"rendered":"
This entry is part 5 of 11 in the series Seven Functions of a CAD Manager<\/a><\/div>

Are you coordinated?\u00a0 Some folks can juggle baseballs, while riding a unicycle, on a tightrope wire.\u00a0 That would be a stretch for most of us, but some are more coordinated than others.<\/p>\n

Coordinating is something that CAD Managers have to do every day.\u00a0 They orchestrate the flow of CAD work, schedule roll-outs and downtime, work with multiple departments, shuffle deadlines and work under pressure.\u00a0 Here are a few areas where coordination is needed.\u00a0 Some are very hands on and some are philosophical.<\/p>\n

Project Work Flow:<\/strong> CAD Managers need to be embedded into the project work flow so they know what is coming.\u00a0 This is typically seen as critical when it comes to plotting output.\u00a0 Coordinating submittals between projects is important.\u00a0 Work with the PM’s to make sure that they are not landing on the same date and time.\u00a0 You will not be able to change submittal dates, but you can work with the PM to schedule the output.\u00a0 You may even have to outsource plotting if there is a major bottleneck.<\/p>\n

Software Roll-outs: <\/strong> You will need to coordinate the timing of new software roll-outs.\u00a0 Make sure that they avoid major project submittals and milestones.\u00a0 Make sure that training is ready before the roll-out (if needed). Make sure that everyone in the firm knows it is happening.\u00a0 No surprises.<\/p>\n

Hardware Refresh:<\/strong> When that new hardware finally arrives, make sure that the desktop swaps are not impeding work production.\u00a0 Some have done them on the weekend, some overnight, some during lunch.\u00a0 You need to work with each individual person on the timing of a swap.\u00a0 Don’t just roll up with a new workstation and expect the person to jump out of their seat (unless the old dog machine they have is on it’s last legs)<\/p>\n

There are so many more areas.\u00a0 Please comment and add to the list.<\/p>\n

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This entry is part 5 of 11 in the series Seven Functions of a CAD Manager<\/a><\/div>

Are you coordinated?\u00a0 Some folks can juggle baseballs, while riding a unicycle, on a tightrope wire.\u00a0 That would be a stretch for most of us, but some are more coordinated than others. Coordinating is something that CAD Managers have to do every day.\u00a0 They orchestrate the flow of CAD work, schedule roll-outs and downtime, work […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"series":[74],"class_list":["post-2420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cad-management","series-seven-functions-of-a-cad-manager"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2420"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2864,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions\/2864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2420"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}