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DIARY: July 23, 1997 03:05 PM Wednesday; Rod Welch

Research communication error rate.

1...Summary/Objective
2...managing a project other than by using a percentage of direct cost,
3...conceptual scenario in a letter to Max Wideman issued at ref SDS 14


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CONTACTS 
0201 - Working Resources                  415 546 1252 fax or 800...
020101 - Dr. Maynard Brusman
0202 - Stanford Const Eng Mngmnt          415 723 3074
020201 - Mr. Ray Levitt, Ph.D.; Professor =415 723 2677
020202 - Construction Engineering & Management Program

SUBJECTS
Calculate Cost Benefit Level of Effort
PM Cost Percentage Direct Cost
Ambasador for Change
Educational Institutions

0806 -    ..
0807 - Summary/Objective
0808 -
080801 - Follow up ref SDS 16 0000, ref SDS 7 0000.
080802 -
080803 - Called and left message for Maynard Brusman to all on source for
080804 - studies of errors in communications, per our work on Asilomar, ref SDS
080805 - 1 line 69.
080806 -
080807 -
080808 -
080809 -  ..
0809 -
0810 -
0811 - 1529 submitted letter to Ray Levitt at Stanford
0812 -
081201 - Prepared ref DIT 1 line 30 asking Ray for help on nailing down the
081202 - rate of error in communications based on his work at Stanford on the
081203 - Virtual Design Team (VDT) program.  He showed this to me last year at
081204 - his office, ref SDS 2 line 281, and then demonstrated it at PMI in
081205 - September, ref SDS 9 line 172.
081206 -
081207 -     [On 970724 received response. ref SDS 21 0000.]
081208 -
081209 - I explain my interest in developing a way to calculate impact of
081210 - communication errors, ref SDS 17 line 107, and on estimating cost for
081211 - managing a project other than by using a percentage of direct cost,
081212 - ref DIT 1 line 44, which is the typical approach per discussion with
081213 - Steve Rule at Turner Construction, ref SDS 13 line 140, and Tom
081214 - Keesling at Corps of Engineers, ref SDS 11 line 293.  I created a
081215 - conceptual scenario in a letter to Max Wideman issued at ref SDS 14
081216 - line 174, per analysis at ref DIP 5 line 69.
081217 -
081218 -
081219 - Got an email back saying Ray is out of the area or otherwise is not
081220 - answering his email as follows.  Actually the thing says he will back
081221 - on 970721, so he should have answered.
081222 -
081223 - X-Sender: rel@cive.stanford.edu
081224 - To: Rod Welch <rowelch@ibm.net>
081225 - From: rel@cive.stanford.edu
081226 - Errors-To: postmaster@cive.stanford.edu
081227 - Subject: Communication Metrics
081228 - Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 15:24:27 -0700
081229 -
081230 - The following message is an auto-reply to your e-mail to Ray Levitt:
081231 -
081232 - Ray Levitt is away on vaction this week and out of e-mail contact.  He
081233 - will be back on Monday July 21.  If you need to reach him urgently,
081234 - please call Diantha Stensrud at 415-497-4447, and she can try to reach
081235 - him.
081236 -
081237 -     [See follow up getting response from Ray to Paul Teicholz and a
081238 -     response from Paul, ref SDS 20 line 80.]
081239 -
081240 -
081241 -
081242 -  ..
0813 -
0814 -
0815 - 1540 called Morris about Cal Tech study
0816 -
081601 - Left message for study data from the Cal Tech seminar he attended, per
081602 - ref SDS 12 line 387.
081603 -
081604 -
081605 -
0817 -
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