- There are 2 aspects of any functional output – ‘What’ and ‘How’. The ‘What’ is whether you are doing it in a Blast Furnace, Pellet Plant, etc. They may be different contexts, but the deliverable is the same – the how.
- In any system, when there is a matrix of specializations on one side and there are deliverables on the other side, there is a group of people responsible for making these deliverables happen and ensuring these specialized competencies tie up. In short, there is a need for people who will deliver what is needed for the project. And further, all these deliverables are combined by the Engineering Manager in the G6.
- This space of “capacity to deliver” has been shown below:
At one end there is a DU. As part of a DU, say an engineering manager is assembling multiple resource deliverables which s/he is tying up to the DU.
On the other side, there are i) a set of expert groups/ specialists and ii) reusable packages, iii) There are deliverable teams of 1 or more people who use their own knowledge work and inputs from experts and they are responsible for deliverables, and pre-packages, if any, can also be used by the deliverable teams to meet commitments faster & better.
- While this is the framework, the key question is how to improve the capacity-to-deliver of the functions.