Whos Your Daddy

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Whos Your Daddy
A discussion of the potential for equipment
Project Management renewal as part of the
Canadian Forces Transformation Agenda
Presented by Dix Lawson OMM, CD, MPM, PMP
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Canadian Forces Transformation

• Chief of Defence Staff CF to be
• Responsive
• Effective, and
• Relevant.

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Presentation Objectives

• Operator as the Project Manager
• Define Changes
• Education
• Organization

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DND Project Management Roles Defined

• Project Manager
• This is a person formally appointed to manage a
  project with specific accountability for
  achieving defined project objectives within
  allocated resources.
• Project Director
• The project sponsor's working representative,
  providing guidance and direction for other
  working level staffs on matters relating to
  project aims.

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DND Project Matrix
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Defence Management System (Sponsor and
Implementor)
Accountable
Guidance Direction
Project Management Principles and Policies for
the Department of National Defence May 1999
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Defence Management System - Phases
Capability Based Planning Defines the Need
NEED
IDENTIFY
OPTIONS ANALYSIS
DEFINE
IMPLEMENT
CLOSE
CONTROL PROCESSES
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Identification Phase
CONTROL PROCESSES - PD
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Options Analysis Phase
CONTROL PROCESSES - PD
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Definition Phase
CONTROL PROCESSES - PD
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Implementation Phase
CONTROL PROCESSES - PM
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Closeout Phase
CONTROL PROCESSES - PD
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Typical DND Project Charter
So who is really doing the work of a PM? So whos
your Daddy?
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DND Project Management Roles Project Approval
Guide

• Project Director
• Establish and maintain project objectives
• Guides PM
• Obtain functional matrix support
• Prepare/Obtain approval of DMS documents
• Project Manager
• Provides technical advice
• Manage functional team
• Project status Reports

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So..

• the DND Project Director is actually fulfilling
  the normal role of a Project Manager with all the
  accountabilities this entails, while
• the DND Project Manager who is expert in
  functional and technical support activities is
  actually fulfilling a role normally associated
  with that of a Deputy Project Manager.

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Operator AsThe Project Manager

• Officers
• Command Education and Experience
• Needs
• Relational project management education

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Revised Top-Down Structure
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Central Force Development Authority (Central FD
Auth)

• Central FD Auth
• Chief Force Development
• Direct control national and joint force
  development activities.
• Integrate and synchronize force development
  activities ECS and Functional Level Ones.
• Generate specific Capability

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DND Project Matrix VCDS As Sponsor
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Summary

• To help produce Relevance, responsiveness and
  effectiveness
• PD is the PM
• Making it so
• Project Sponsorship
• End-to-end under the VCDS

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QUESTIONS