{"id":2454,"date":"2011-06-14T05:28:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T12:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/?p=2454"},"modified":"2012-11-08T16:50:40","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T23:50:40","slug":"division-of-work-principles-of-cad-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/2011\/06\/division-of-work-principles-of-cad-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Division of Work – Principles of CAD Management"},"content":{"rendered":"
This entry is part 2 of 17 in the series Principles of CAD Management<\/a><\/div>

Henri Fayol’s<\/a> first principle is division of work.\u00a0 Today some call this division of labor.<\/p>\n

This consists of dividing the work up to make things more efficient.\u00a0 Everyone would agree that this helps.\u00a0 Many hands make the job lighter.\u00a0 Fayol was not talking about just throwing more people at a problem.\u00a0 The principle is that each person would do a specific function that collectively would get the job done better.<\/p>\n

Employees that are very good at one thing can make production more efficient.\u00a0 That has been proven over the years.\u00a0 In an industrial environment, this has been used for many years.\u00a0 In a professional or services environment there is a need for specialization also, but not so narrow a view of it.<\/p>\n

It is easy for a firm or department to settle into the frame of mind that one employee is the best at something and should be the go to person for that function.\u00a0 In the early 1900’s industrialized workforce where people hired into firms or trades and stayed with the company until retirement or death, this was an easy answer. It also produce higher quality output since the best person was doing the work.<\/p>\n

Make Everyone is an Expert<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a CAD environment, you still may have disciplines who perform the plumbing or HVAC efforts collectively but you do not have one person who does all of the VAV boxes or another who places all the J-Boxes and lets someone else route things back to the electrical panel.\u00a0 With CAD you have to have everyone be able to handle the software tools in a high quality manner.\u00a0 The discipline education of electrical or architectural is beyond the CAD Managers efforts in training.<\/p>\n

So your purpose now is to try and make everyone an expert and leave the division of work up to others.\u00a0 You are a supporting role for the design team.\u00a0 You need to make sure that everyone knows the tools that need to be applied in differing ways as others divide up the work.\u00a0 So division of work does not directly apply to those that use your CAD platform, but it may apply to the team (if you have one) that supports that environment.<\/p>\n

Your Team needs Focus and Redundancy<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dividing the work among your CAD Team helps if one person is the point person for a given technology.\u00a0 You may have a CAD Support person that does the CAD area and one that does the BIM area.\u00a0 You may have one that oversee plotting and one that manages the network licensing.\u00a0 Dividing things up by task increases the knowledge of the tools by consolidating and focusing the learning and advancement of an area on to one persons shoulders.<\/p>\n

This does not mean that you totally silo each person and that is all they do.\u00a0 You need every function to have at least two who can solve problems at any given time.\u00a0 One may be out of the office or leave the firm. You do not want to be caught short.\u00a0 So make sure that knowledge is shared among the team and that no one person “holding the keys” to any mission critical area.\u00a0 Have redundancy as well as focus.<\/p>\n
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This entry is part 2 of 17 in the series Principles of CAD Management<\/a><\/div>

Henri Fayol’s first principle is division of work.\u00a0 Today some call this division of labor. This consists of dividing the work up to make things more efficient.\u00a0 Everyone would agree that this helps.\u00a0 Many hands make the job lighter.\u00a0 Fayol was not talking about just throwing more people at a problem.\u00a0 The principle is that […]<\/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":[75],"class_list":["post-2454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cad-management","series-principles-of-cad-management"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454","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=2454"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2872,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454\/revisions\/2872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2454"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}