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Program Management in Defense and High Tech Environments
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Program Management in Defense and High Tech Environments

by Charles Christopher McCarthy
November 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
288 pages
8h 43m
English
Auerbach Publications
Content preview from Program Management in Defense and High Tech Environments
Running the Program 143
COST CONTROL IN THE TRENCHES
In large companies, not all of the labor that is needed by your program is
performed by people exclusively on your program. FMs are a key example.
Your EE manager, for example, may have 20 engineers reporting to him
or her; maybe only 4 of them are working on your program full-time, and
2 are spending 50% of their time on your program because of temporary
needs such as for an Field Programmable Gate Array specialist. At the
end of the day that FM (if he or she is a direct charge) will have to account
for his or her time that day and charge the correct budget. It is very dif-
cult for hi ...
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