CONTACTS 
0201 - Dinwiddie, LMU Job                 310 649 6040 fax 5651
020101 - Mr. Steve Losie; Project Manager

SUBJECTS
SDS Marketing, Sales, Demonstrations
Correlation to accepted practice
SDS Worrying Time Productive
Screaming 3AM SDS Makes Worrying Time Productive, Dinwiddi, 940510

0606 -    ..
0607 - Summary/Objective
0608 -
060801 - Follow up ref SDS 5 0000.
060802 -
060803 - Steve said he has not had time to read the paper, ref OF 1 0001 nor
060804 - call references on how SDS improves management, but said he will do so
060805 - in the next few days.
060806 -
060807 - He asked me to call him on Thursday to follow up.
060808 - ..
060809 - Steve said management activity on the job is very heavy now.
060810 -
060811 - He is waking up at 0300 screaming about worries of what has been
060812 - overlooked due to the complexity of information flow on the job, and
060813 - how the many discussions he has will impact performance.
060814 -
060815 - We recalled that Dinwiddi was falling behind in correspondence on
060816 - 940507, and this is only the beginning of the job. ref SDS 5 8953  On
060817 - 920210 the Broadwater Dam project had similar problems. ref SDS 1 8400
060818 -
060819 - Adding "intelligence" to Dinwiddi's management would relieve worries
060820 - that wake us up at 0300 by getting the work done correctly and on
060821 - time. ref OF 1 0582
060822 -
060823 -     [On 9659 Dinwiddi will not accept help. ref SDS 7 9659]
060824 -
060825 -     [On 990327 work too hectic; manager does not have time to get help
060826 -     to avoid mistakes that make things hectic. ref SDS 8 9482]
060827 -
060828 - He expects things will settle down in another month or so, then he
060829 - will have enough time to consider how to improve project management.
060830 -
060831 -        [On 940518, called Steve to follow up. ref SDS 6 8539]
060832 -
060833 -     Comment
060834 -
060835 -     This is possible, as the initial wave of submittals are completed.
060836 -
060837 -     It is also possible that small problems overlooked, or not treated
060838 -     adequately now, will escalate in another few months into major
060839 -     losses, that will then increase the demand for management time.
060840 -
060841 -     SDS enables people to do something useful when they wake up at
060842 -     0300.  Instead of worrying, invest some intellectual capital, make
060843 -     some "connections," capture those ideas that wake us up, and
060844 -     create some "controllable action items."  Link understandings to
060845 -     the contract to discover if deviations are occuring in
060846 -     communications before they cause incorrect work to be performed
060847 -     that will cost extra cost and delay the job.
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