Why don't we include another brutal truth here?
Our costs are out of control and we are failing vs competition and our benchmark is BS.
Are we hearing the feedback from the broader organization?
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@17f carrying Ll of the overhead at EMHC while cutting headcount and while BTC doesn’t carry any inflated the rate of EMHC workers.
@1bw good luck with that. Have you ever worked with these companies in India? Not what I would call Tier 1 by a long shot.
What does this mean… Strategy+
So much tension between GP and the business lines. Not good.
The future of global project management will be stewarded in India.
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Ge-z everyone stop upvoting the post about the GP CPM VP with terrible behaviors. Don’t you know how things work around here?!?. Sr leadership above him obviously loves his behaviors (disrespectful, arrogant, negative/redirects blame) and so spotlighting it will keep him around!
GP has to be the absolute worst part of the organization. Politics is its priority, actually doing any work not even on the radar. Culture incredibly toxic, I really feel sorry for folks working there.
@17f the billing rate: what GP charges business lines. It may be less for BPO projects
@16, what do you mean GP is $400/hr? That must be a US thing.
Gp is still like $400 / hr which is no better than 5 years ago!. So they cut quality/capability (including through BTC strategy and poorly managing non-hipos who are actually proven/capable) and are still as expensive. You have to acknowledge if you prioritize/choose potential over proven you require more staffing to be crutch for hipos.
Wait , so Is this just an exercise to justify and support questionable decisions already made by VPs like the two hubs confusion or the direct to India / design buy build in India or whatever it is called?? I doubt anything really new or different will come from this. At most maybe some new words or phrases the VPs will parrot.
@aw the contractors are already bankrupt. Who will pay your LDs? Who will build anything for us if we put them all out of business with LDs? At the end of the day there is no way to be made whole if the project schedule or cost blow up. You have to keep the project on track.
@OP why did JG then become GO Senior President with such dismal performance?
Well it is hard to be good at something when the VPs don’t value the skills or people who do it.
The brutal truth is the VP leading this has terrible behaviors, probably the worst one. Has been for years. So disappointing he is still around.
@aw so your solution is to bankrupt more contractors. Great plan! Maybe we need to admit that the lump sum model is broken and that contractor capability is being diminished by their offshoring of engineering to India.
Costs will rapidly fall in line when the price of a barrel drops. Until then enjoy.
We relieve our contactors on millions of LDs. We need to stop that cr-p and actually enforce our contracts.
@OP We already gave the brutal truths.
People said the ranking system was broken… so management stepped in and made it worse.
People said technical expertise wasn’t driving decisions… so now we have layers of architects added on top of management, again making things worse.
Every ‘fix’ just creates a new problem.
So no, I don’t think the issue is whether leadership is hearing us.
It’s what happens after they do.
We manipulate the benchmarking inputs to ensure we meet managements’ expectations. Exempt certain scopes, change the numbers later, explain away anything that could result in less than 1Q benchmarking performance. I’ve seen more than one project go from 3-5Q to 1Q after manipulation, and sail through the internal and management reviews. It’s a joke.
Benchmarking is a waste of money. I have yet to see a benchmarking study that wasn’t a total waste of time and money. Stupid studies to help executives justify their bonuses.