I'll start with a vent -- since before the pandemic hit, at least half of my time has been spent cleaning up messes created by cad people who are not longer part of our operation (thankfully gone!!) Some were marginally competent at best, some were very competent but had zero interest in working with company standards or collaborating, etc. Bottom line for me, is that most of the hours spent on jobs has been trying to fix thing that should never have been broken. And this is invariably after the budget is gone, and the deadline is looming, It's just too damn late in the day to do it right/do it over. I'm tired of the ka-ka, and retirement is becoming a more attractive option.
Now, on to my ask. The organization I'm employed by has had a growth strategy of acquisition. They've gotten very big and are spread across the globe. But they act more like a holding company of AEC firms rather than an AEC firm. Little corporate interest in enforcing or promoting corporate standards -- as long as the individual shop have good numbers, all is good in the C-Suite. One job in particular was farmed out to another office (mostly because they didn't have very much local work). Rather than paying any attention to the template I provided, or any of the documented corporate standards, they've gone off in a very chaotic direction. Using Sheet set manager, but doing nothing with it, ignoring NCS sheet numbering in favor of something that doesn't work well, (e.g. sheet numbers are 1 through 33), Layer naming seems to mix old school survey, with third grade names or truly morphed NCS sorta-like-NCS, and things are drawn on layers that don't fit -- eg pavement stripes and concrete slabs on the same layer, Xref's attached on a DIM layer. Pagesetups exist, but only for their hard copy (plot by window at a scale of 1 to 2.10. And I don't even want to get started on C3D objects and Dref organization, nested XRef attachments, duplicated Xrefs, and object/mtext color over-rides.
95% submittal is next week, but design is more tike 50%, and budget is around 110% burned. So this job is hosed. Can't fix it without a work of redoing and re-organizing.
So, what suggestions are out there to prevent this sort of mess from happening again and again?