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DIARY: January 15, 1997 05:00 PM Wednesday; Rod Welch

Attend PMI dinner meeting with Bill Benkavitch.

1...Summary/Objective
2...Review of Communication Metrics Scope of Services
3...PMI Dinner Program on "Communication Agents"
4...Turner Construction - Russ
5...PG&E Assignment Current Work at $100K
6...PMI Professional Development Events

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1..."Communication Agent," might make a good program, ref SDS 25 line 122.

CONTACTS 
0201 - Turner, City Hall Retrofit         415 863 0273 fax 2712
020101 - Mr. Russell F. Oberlander; Resident Engineer
0202 - PG&E Grid Customer Services        415 973 1014 fax 8426
020201 - Mr. Bill DeHart, PMP
020202 - Project Manager =415 973 1014 pger 510 472 2288; Project Management

SUBJECTS
Monthly Meetings
Newsletter
Turner, San Francisco
Bill's Assignment, 960815

0706 -    ..
0707 - Summary/Objective
0708 -
070801 - Followed up work at ref SDS 24 line 39, ref SDS 23 line 37, 
070802 - line 34, ref SDS 21 line 53.
070803 -
070804 -
070805 -
070806 -
070807 -
070808 -
070809 -
0709 -
0710 -
0711 - Progress
0712 -
071201 -  ..
071202 - Review of Communication Metrics Scope of Services
071203 -
071204 - Showed Bill Benkavitch the draft scope of services for COE assignment;
071205 - he provided some edits.  Bill suggests using the phrase "decision
071206 - support."  It is in the document, but I will move it to the top of the
071207 - document to associate Communication Metrics with that role.  He also
071208 - suggests calling me a "Communication Director" to add structure within
071209 - the Communication Metrics field.
071210 -
071211 -      [On 970115 this evening, considered Bill's ideas in finalizing
071212 -      submission to COE, ref SDS 26 6388.]
071213 -
071214 -      [On 970123 received letter from Bill that develops his ideas on
071215 -      staffing Communication Metrics. ref SDS 28 8190]
071216 -
071217 -
071218 - PMI Dinner Program on "Communication Agents"
071219 -
071220 - Introduced Bill Benkavitch to Khumar and suggested that his experience
071221 - in the Navy developing a new position, that the Navy they called a
071222 - "Communication Agent," might make a good program, ref SDS 25 line 122.
071223 -
071224 - Suggested that Bill DeHart might supplement with remarks on the
071225 - experiement at PG&E that resulted in the Communication Manager role.
071226 - Khumar took Bill Benkavitch's business card and will give this idea
071227 - consideration.  He noted that PMI strives to avoid having PMI officers
071228 - make dinner presentations.
071229 -
071230 -      [See where Bill clarified the name used in the Navy was
071231 -      "Management Agent," ref SDS 29 line 119.]
071232 -
071233 - We recalled briefly the presentation by the representative from the US
071234 - Army Missile Defense Communications Branch, ref SDS 10 line 114, last
071235 - year who spoke on changes in DOD procurement, mainly about the hoped
071236 - for productivity gains from using the Internet.  I suggested that
071237 - Bill's presentation could supplement that prior effort.
071238 -
071239 -
071240 -
071241 - Turner Construction - Russ
071242 -
071243 - Met Russ Oberlander, who was one of Turner's speakers at Asilomar, and
071244 - with whom Bill DeHart and I worked in preparing for Asilomar last
071245 - year, ref SDS 14 line 232.
071246 -
071247 - Russ said he read my paper which was submitted to Turner at our
071248 - meeting on 960529, ref SDS 13 line 144.
071249 -
071250 - He asked if the ideas in the paper on Communication Metrics have been
071251 - applied anywhere?
071252 -
071253 - I explained having used these ideas in a software program at DNRC for
071254 - the State of Montana on a hydro electric dam project, for Bill DeHart
071255 - at PG&E, who Russ spoke with this evening about their work together on
071256 - Asilomar last year, to plan the PMI Asilomar event last year, and
071257 - currently they are being used to support the Corps of Engineer's
071258 - Oakland Harbor Deepening project.  I asked if Russ would like to see
071259 - a demonstration of how Communication Metrics is being used at the
071260 - Corps.
071261 -
071262 - Russ advised that on his project systems and budgets are being
071263 - streamlined.  He noted that the project is on schedule and on budget,
071264 - so they are not looking for new approaches at this time.
071265 -
071266 - Russ wants a simple summary of the methodology and scope of services
071267 - for Communication Metrics to review in evaluating whether to schedule
071268 - a demonstration.
071269 -
071270 - I will provide this tomorrow.
071271 -
071272 -     [See where this was done at ref SDS 27 line 62.]
071273 -
071274 -
071275 - PG&E Assignment Current Work at $100K
071276 -
071277 - Bill Benkavitch and I sat with Bill DeHart, so I could introduce them
071278 - and they could talk.  During the evening I asked Bill about the value
071279 - of the projects he has underway in his new assignment.  It is
071280 - approximately $100K in terms of construction cost.  My sense is that
071281 - it has much greater revenue potential for PG&E.
071282 -
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SUBJECTS
Winter Symposium

0804 -
080401 - PMI Professional Development Events
080402 -
080403 - Bill seemed to indicate that Ahmet is submitting some copy tonight for
080404 - inclusion in the next issue of PMI's Newsletter that will advertise
080405 - the Winter Symposium.  It sounded as though some mixups may have
080406 - occurred on timing and/or content of this submission.  Bill was not
080407 - aware of the speakers nor the topic of this event.
080408 -
080409 - Evidently this next event is now going to occur in March, rather than
080410 - in Feburary, which is when the Winter event was held last year.
080411 -
080412 - There does not seem to be any information available yet on the topic
080413 - and speakers for the Asilomar Conference.  Actually, it is my
080414 - impression that it is supposed to be related to the Winter Symposium.
080415 - Maybe there was something in a recent Newsletter on this.
080416 -
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0806 -
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