THE WELCH COMPANY
440 Davis Court #1602
San Francisco, CA 94111-2496
415 781 5700


S U M M A R Y


DIARY: March 2, 1997 07:59 AM Sunday; Rod Welch

Complete edits for evaluation Communication Metrics on Oakland job.

1...Summary/Objective
2...Cite ISO 10006 and PMBOK Authorities
3...Benkevitch's Edits
4...New Methods Not Intuitive, Need Faith to Try Un-tried Theories
5...Correlation to Military Traditions
6...Formatting - Executive Summary, Single Para
7...Peer Review


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CONTACTS 
0201 - PG&E Grid Customer Services        415 973 1014 fax 8426
020101 - Mr. Bill DeHart, PMP
020102 - Project Manager =415 973 1014 pger 510 472 2288; Project Management
0202 - Chips & Tech.                      408 434 0600
020201 - Mr. Morris E. Jones
020202 - Sr. Vice President =4283 Ext

SUBJECTS
Evaluation Welch Contract
2626 COE Contractor Evaluation
COE Newsletter Article

0605 -    ..
0606 - Summary/Objective
0607 -
060701 - Followed up work at ref SDS 22 line 72, ref SDS 21 line 71, 
060702 - line 72, ref SDS 18 line 71, ref SDS 16 line 79, ref SDS 15
060703 -
060704 - Finalized a double spaced draft, and then converted into  single
060705 - spaced document for actual submission, ref OF 5 line 25.  Submitted
060706 - to Morris and to Bill DeHart for final comments.  Also sent it to
060707 - Bill Benkavitch.
060708 -
060709 -    [See follow up sending copy to Hank Hatch for approval of citation,
060710 -    ref SDS 24 line 69; submitted draft to Tom Keesling, ref SDS 23
060711 -    line 86.]
060712 -
060713 -
060714 -
0608 -
0609 -
0610 - Progress
0611 -
061101 - Cite ISO 10006 and PMBOK Authorities
061102 -
061103 - Followed up work at ref SDS 22 line 86, ref SDS 21 line 85, 
061104 - line 85.
061105 -
061106 - Need to cite at ref OF 4 line 376, specific section in ISO 10006 that
061107 - calls for continual learning, reviewed at ref SDS 1 line 505, and
061108 - cited the PMBOK that sort of covers the same point, ref SDS 1 line
061109 - 557.
061110 -
061111 -
061112 -
061113 - Benkevitch's Edits
061114 -
061115 - Applied Bill Benkavitch's edits on identifying his PERA group at the
061116 - Navy, ref SDS 17 line 93 at ref OF 4 line 412.
061117 -
061118 -
061119 -
061120 - New Methods Not Intuitive, Need Faith to Try Un-tried Theories
061121 -
061122 - We need to explain why the 22 meeting estimate did not pan out and
061123 - what it says about an important difference between Communication
061124 - Metrics and conventional management practice.  I have tried to do this
061125 - in the introduction by setting up the difference in expectations at
061126 - ref OF 5 line 59; further at the end of explaining the Welch contract,
061127 - and at the beginning of contract performance, ref OF 5 line 275, and
061128 - finally in the conclusion, ref OF 5 line 385.  The reason this is done
061129 - is to give readers faith to set aside their worry about not having
061130 - enough time and that this will cost too much, so they can try the
061131 - thing based on experience.  This is actually a good approach that
061132 - answers Tom Benero's questions at the meeting with Max on 970110 about
061133 - why the thing escalated, ref SDS 4 line 606.
061134 -
061135 -
061136 -
061137 - Correlation to Military Traditions
061138 -
061139 - Wound up citing various military terms about command and control of
061140 - the record, being prepared, etc.
061141 -
061142 -
061143 -
061144 -
061145 - Formatting - Executive Summary, Single Para
061146 -
061147 - Created a set to print in final form, ref OF 5 line 20.  To avoid
061148 - having the executive summary run too long, I created a General
061149 - paragraph.
061150 -
061151 - Created heading titles that use SDS model of explaining the paper.
061152 -
061153 - Considering making this a separate document, rather than a letter or
061154 - integrated document.  We probably need table of contents, including a
061155 - listing of appendices.  Went ahead and created this.
061156 -
061157 - I need to get the formatting for a cover sheet and table of contents.
061158 - Can get this from the original POIMS paper.
061159 -
061160 -
061161 -
061162 - Peer Review
061163 -
061164 - Sent it to Bill DeHart, Morris, Benkevitch.
061165 -
061166 -
061167 -
061168 -
0612 -
0613 -
0614 - 1441 called Bill
0615 -
061501 - Left message with Pat to call about review of COE evaluation.
061502 -
061503 -
061504 -
0616 -
0617 -
0618 - 1517 called Morris
0619 -
061901 - He will provide some peer review.
061902 -
061903 - I sent to him as a file called COE in a file called called rod.zip.
061904 -
061905 - He asked me to send it to him in straight Medit.  He will look at it
061906 - tomorrow.
061907 -
061908 - Submitted ref OF 4 line 30 via ref DIT 1 line 30 and included  the
061909 - file for Tom's letter at ref DRP 6 line 30.
061910 -
061911 - After I sent this thing I created the final version, which has
061912 - further edits, per above, but this is close enough for Morris to
061913 - comment.
061914 -
061915 - Scheduled follow up to look for his comments on 970304.
061916 -
061917 -
061918 -
061919 -
061920 -
0620 -
0621 -
0622 - 1948 called Bill again
0623 -
062301 - He has just come in from working at the office in San Francisco all
062302 - day.
062303 -
062304 - I advised of trying to get his input on this.  After dinner, he will
062305 - try to take a look.
062306 -
062307 - I put a note on the email transmittal for him to consider getting
062308 - peer review from his boss or others at PG&E who might be interested,
062309 - including Chris Snyder.
062310 -
062311 -
062312 -
062313 -
0624 -
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