12-12-2012, 08:57 PM
It is an interesting discussion point. When I was the chairman of the design licence review group a couple of years ago there was a lot of debate about the perceived weighting of the sections. There are 19 performance criteria in the designer's licence and only one says anything about actually producing design - 2.1 "Produce designs and other supporting information (documentation, software files etc) in the required format.". However, people should not lose sight of the fact that the evidence required to cover that would be greater in substance and depth than other PC within the CAC. Someone who does all of the other bits well but only has thin evidence on 2.1 should not get anywhere. Similarly, some level of simulation or questioning would be OK for many of the other CACs (but not all at once), but 2.1 would require hard examples.
The other thing is that having produced the stuff for 2.1, many of the other CACs will flow from that (version control, self check, approval, dealing with anomalies). The PCs are arranged sort of chronologically but don't let this constrain your evidence gathering and a good assessor will not necessarily go through them in order. It should of course be a workplace assessment - the assessor sees what you do and records the activity against the relevant PC where the activity meets the relevant requirement.
Like many things in life, doing the core bit is quite straightforward. It is all of the other things that can go wrong that also need to be controlled. Making a car go forward is easy. Doing it without damage or injury requires lots of other things to be in order.
As for the main point - yes, you will have had to do some design to get your licence!
Peter
The other thing is that having produced the stuff for 2.1, many of the other CACs will flow from that (version control, self check, approval, dealing with anomalies). The PCs are arranged sort of chronologically but don't let this constrain your evidence gathering and a good assessor will not necessarily go through them in order. It should of course be a workplace assessment - the assessor sees what you do and records the activity against the relevant PC where the activity meets the relevant requirement.
Like many things in life, doing the core bit is quite straightforward. It is all of the other things that can go wrong that also need to be controlled. Making a car go forward is easy. Doing it without damage or injury requires lots of other things to be in order.
As for the main point - yes, you will have had to do some design to get your licence!
Peter