To put this in some perspective, they’re mostly doing it because the Brits did it first.
I remember when I was taught PRINCE2 project management one guest teacher came from the British police.
I ended up not using much of it, mostly because my projects are typically so that I am the team and the cost is my salary. So not very big. However one big idea I learned is that projects are supposed to be a triangle, where the PM is hovering between / above customers and vendors. Typically, when for example a consulting company is implementing a software for a customer company, they will have two PMs on both sides. So there is no real neutral arbiter of disputes. If this could be fixed, such as using freelancers as neutral arbiters, I could go back to the consulting world, as there would be no more of the bitter, unproductive fights that I fled from. Without a neutral arbiter it is often like “you signed a fixed price contract, now implement it for that price even if it seems to take 3x as much work” vs. “okay, fuckers, but then we will implement the spec literally without a care if it is really useful” and it ends up being bad for everybody.
I remember when I was taught PRINCE2 project management one guest teacher came from the British police.
I ended up not using much of it, mostly because my projects are typically so that I am the team and the cost is my salary. So not very big. However one big idea I learned is that projects are supposed to be a triangle, where the PM is hovering between / above customers and vendors. Typically, when for example a consulting company is implementing a software for a customer company, they will have two PMs on both sides. So there is no real neutral arbiter of disputes. If this could be fixed, such as using freelancers as neutral arbiters, I could go back to the consulting world, as there would be no more of the bitter, unproductive fights that I fled from. Without a neutral arbiter it is often like “you signed a fixed price contract, now implement it for that price even if it seems to take 3x as much work” vs. “okay, fuckers, but then we will implement the spec literally without a care if it is really useful” and it ends up being bad for everybody.