A functional consultant on our team who is great. Connected to their functional consultant who was wildly differing in skill level, from expert to can barely use a computer.
Technical Consultants, which involved 1 Senior who knew everything about one segment of topics. Another Senior who knew everything about a different segment of topics. A junior to learn things. And the PM which was also the sales lead looking for more work.
1 of those Seniors needed to be able to have social skills and diplomacy, the other didn't. You could hide the 2nd through preplanning.
The junior just needed to know to keep his mouth shut.
Then you'd have a variety of other seniors who you could call in on a particular topic, but you'd try not to use, as they are on projects.
And in our case, we had a GM who was more functional than all of us, almost as technical as all of us, and the best in front of customers. He could be brought in to deal with any special scenarios, and to gut check our plans.
So we were really, ridiculously successful with that model.
Basically, really well paid, SMEs, no cruft except a younger guy to learn on the job. Such a good structure.
A functional consultant on our team who is great. Connected to their functional consultant who was wildly differing in skill level, from expert to can barely use a computer.
Technical Consultants, which involved 1 Senior who knew everything about one segment of topics. Another Senior who knew everything about a different segment of topics. A junior to learn things. And the PM which was also the sales lead looking for more work.
1 of those Seniors needed to be able to have social skills and diplomacy, the other didn't. You could hide the 2nd through preplanning.
The junior just needed to know to keep his mouth shut.
Then you'd have a variety of other seniors who you could call in on a particular topic, but you'd try not to use, as they are on projects.
And in our case, we had a GM who was more functional than all of us, almost as technical as all of us, and the best in front of customers. He could be brought in to deal with any special scenarios, and to gut check our plans.
So we were really, ridiculously successful with that model.
Basically, really well paid, SMEs, no cruft except a younger guy to learn on the job. Such a good structure.