{"id":2488,"date":"2011-06-22T12:24:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T19:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/?p=2488"},"modified":"2012-11-08T16:51:05","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T23:51:05","slug":"one-cad-boss-principles-of-cad-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/2011\/06\/one-cad-boss-principles-of-cad-management\/","title":{"rendered":"One “CAD Boss” \u2013 Principles of CAD Management"},"content":{"rendered":"
This entry is part 5 of 17 in the series Principles of CAD Management<\/a><\/div>

How many bosses do you have?\u00a0 Please leave a comment and let us know.<\/p>\n

Fayol<\/a> postulated that everyone should have one boss.\u00a0 He reflected that employees need to know that they have one person that will give them directions.\u00a0 He believed that every employee should have only one superior. That the chain of command was a linear chain.\u00a0 That the Org Chart was a pyramid.\u00a0 That was then…\u00a0 this is now.<\/p>\n

Now we have matrixed organizations that have a mixture of teams, bosses, superiors, reporting structures and bottom lines.\u00a0 You may report to one person but be on another team that has you reporting to that lead.\u00a0 You may have one project that calls for you to report to one person and another project that requires you to respond to another person.\u00a0 You may even have a team leadership model that has multiple bosses over multiple teams.<\/p>\n

Any way you look at it, today is a mixture of reporting structures, flat organizations and shared bottom lines.\u00a0 So is Fayol’s perspective no longer true. I think not.\u00a0 Well at least not totally.<\/p>\n

There really is one person that can command your time on any given area of your job. The first and maybe foremost is the person that can fire you.\u00a0 They may be the same person that hired you, but it really is the one that controls your destiny with the firm that matters most.\u00a0 They may take input from others on your performance, but they have to make the call on keeping you around and defending your value.<\/p>\n

When it comes to CAD – the boss should be the CAD Manager – I say “should be” because it is not always that way.\u00a0 The CAD Manager should define the CAD and BIM output (quality of files and models).\u00a0 They do not define the content of the design,but they define the production means, methods and standards.\u00a0 If we only lived in a perfect world \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

But when it comes down to the CAD Managers world, they need to press forward at being that bottom line.\u00a0 Many will try to take orders from others or give orders to others on the standards, but it is the CAD\/BIM Manager that should drive the bus.<\/p>\n

How are you doing at being the “CAD Boss”?\u00a0 Are you in charge?\u00a0 Do you make the calls?\u00a0 Can you stop production if things go wrong?\u00a0 Let us know with a comment below.<\/p>\n
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This entry is part 5 of 17 in the series Principles of CAD Management<\/a><\/div>

How many bosses do you have?\u00a0 Please leave a comment and let us know. Fayol postulated that everyone should have one boss.\u00a0 He reflected that employees need to know that they have one person that will give them directions.\u00a0 He believed that every employee should have only one superior. That the chain of command was […]<\/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-2488","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\/2488","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=2488"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2490,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions\/2490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2488"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}