The Submarine Combat System Program Office in WA is seeking a highly motivated, enthusiastic and reliable person to fill the position of the Baseline Services Manager. This position will provide the right candidate with an excellent opportunity for professional development and personal growth
Selection Criteria
Important: 1. ... 5.
Less Important: 6. Knowledge and understanding of Maritime Systems and in particular the function and components of a Combat System. http://www.defence.gov.au/
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130308/DMO27264_EL1.pdf you do know that it is 18 year olds who drive the nuclear subs!
yeah, It's odd, but it's the way they do things and it works..... kind of train as you go so you learn it our way type thing. Parkinson ?
I'm not sure if the importance of the baseline is being properly emphasised.
The position seems to refer to ensuring the correct baseline software is fielded.
This seems to be being mixed up with the notion of "baseline services". "Baseline services" are described in a university administration document as follows
<<Baseline services, as distinguished from incremental services, are those that are funded through the annual Facilities Assessment (i.e. Net Square Footage Rate) as approved by the Central Budget Committee. These services represent the minimum 鈥渟ervice level standards鈥? which must be maintained throughout the campus. To perform these routine services, the Facilities organization may elect tocontract with external service providers. If service requests go 鈥渙utside鈥?these minimum 鈥渟ervice level standards鈥? an incremental fee will be charged based on the hourly billing rates then in effect for Facilities personnel. In brief, the following represents a discussion of baseline services as currently provided by Facilities.>>
The baseline for operational software needs to be EXACT.
There's no room for any compromise on this.
Given you are using the exact baseline, you want the baseline to possess good properties.
It looks like the Baseline Services Manager is the bunny to take the blame for incorrect operational baselines. It's a bit odd, because the position as stated would have little power to remedy the situation, if there did happen to be an incorrect operational baseline. On reflection it does.
A category of "Less Important" seems to have been created, and Criterion 6 moved to this category.
Makes you wonder.
(Parkinson gone mad ?)
"Duties Statement" says
"3. Develop and manage baseline services processes procedures and plans for input into the Integrated Business Management System."
Producing an "Integrated Business Management System" seems to be taking priority over possessing the correct operational baseline. Just as possessing an "integrated operational system" seems to have taken priority over possessing the correct baselines for the various subsystems. It IS odd.
"Duties Statement" says
"3. Develop and manage baseline services processes procedures and plans for input into the Integrated Business Management System."
Looks like someone wants to create an "integrated business management system".
But an "integrated business management system" would, and must, already exist.
Then they say they want to "develop and manage" some "baseline services processes procedures and plans" for input into the Integrated Business Management System.
But these processes procedure and plans would, and must, already exist.
Wouldn't any credible replacement "Integrated Business Management System" be able to automatically capture all this data ?
("We're switching over to our new automatic pilot system to land at Tokyo airport. Would you mind keying in these parameters to it."
Hang on. If it's a credible automatic pilot system you wouldn't need to key in any parameters.) Counterspy, you might have flagged a problem.
I wonder if the duty statement writer has inadvertently doctored the system, and has been attempting to cover up, and the coverup is starting to unravel.
<<The unravelling of the assassination will come from the ensuing coverup, much as Nixon was undone not by Watergate, but his desperate machinations to distance himself from the crime.>>
In this case software quality may have been assassinated, as opposed to Princess Diana. I wonder why Selection Criterion 6 was bumped down to "Less Important".
Somebody in the organization likes tinkering.
There is the spectre that the same person likes tinkering with code.
If someone in the organization likes tinkering with code, there wouldn't be enough Quality Inspectors, or Baseline Services Managers, in the universe, to rescue the project.
"There's something rotten in the State of Denmark"
(We are supposed to have a proper operational baseline, meaning that no one has been tinkering with code since it was last authenticated/validated/accredited - we're not being offered that, instead we're being offered a "Baseline Services Manager" who will be supposed to gesture hypnotically like Mandrake and produce a proper baseline. The conclusion I reach from this is that there isn't a proper operational baseline.) | 