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DIARY: September 20, 1997 08:36 AM Saturday; Rod Welch

Called Bill DeHart on articles for PMI dinner meeting.

1...Summary/Objective


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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 - Saxon-Hamilton                     415 420 1712
020201 - Mr. Roger C. Bush;  =510 430 7758 (pager)

SUBJECTS
Monthly Meetings, Newsletter
Roger Bush conducts "Town Hall" Meeting,

0704 -    ..
0705 - Summary/Objective
0706 -
070601 - Followed up work at ref SDS 9 line 84, ref SDS 7 line 109.
070602 -
070603 - Bill received his copy of ref DIP 6 line 30 thanking Roger for his
070604 - re-write.  Bill has not talked to Roger yet.
070605 -
070606 -      [See response below.]
070607 -
070608 - He plans to use my lead-in and then use Roger's Speaker's Summary.
070609 - Bill will not use my name for the lead in nor for Roger's Summary.  I
070610 - agreed to this.
070611 -
070612 - I explained the ideas at ref SDS 9 line 107.  Bill liked the omitted
070613 - paragraph.
070614 -
070615 - I suggested that Bill ask Roger if he wants to review his summary for
070616 - repetition, per ref SDS 7 line 586.
070617 -
070618 - Bill is considering running my article next month.  The dinner meeting
070619 - will cover the "project of the year."  We can likely use it to discuss
070620 - communication issues in Roger's presentation as well, to draw some
070621 - broad lessons learned.
070622 -
070623 - Bill has received, but has not yet installed, the SDS update I sent
070624 - last night, ref SDS 11 line 41, and so he has not yet seen the article
070625 - on IT, ref SDS 11 line 49, which he requested yesterday, ref SDS 8
070626 - line 160.  I read some of the author's observations about the negative
070627 - impact of IT.  Bill recalled this analysis reflects Tom Landauer's
070628 - book "The Trouble with Computers." ref SDS 8 line 126.
070629 - ..
070630 - Bill said there is another article in the Contra Costa Times
070631 - this morning that has similar analysis showing IT is not improving
070632 - productivity.  He will send me a copy.
070633 -
070634 -     I got this from Bill later (also downloaded from Internet] and
070635 -     entered it in the record of the article in Computerworld, ref SDS
070636 -     8 line 164.
070637 -
070638 - We discussed the difficulty with IT caused by market forces that make
070639 - IT unstable which prevents users from learning productive
070640 - implementations, per my discussion with Mark at Turner yesterday, ref
070641 - SDS 10 line 289.
070642 -
070643 - I gave the example of the alphabet as a stable information technology.
070644 -
070645 -
070646 -
070647 -
0707 -
0708 -
0709 - 1942 received response from Roger
0710 -
071001 - Received ref DRT 1 line 40 from Roger, responding to my letter, ref
071002 - DIP 6 line 25, submitted yesterday, ref SDS 9 line 100.
071003 -
071004 - Roger thanked me for starting the article, because he has a hard time
071005 - starting from a blank page, ref DRT 1 line 23.
071006 -
071007 - Roger thanks me for supporting him, ref DRT 1 line 21.
071008 -
071009 - Roger requests notice to return favor, ref DRT 1 line 25.
071010 -
071011 - I sent a copy of this to Bill.
071012 -
071013 -
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071015 -
071016 -
0711 -
Distribution. . . . See "CONTACTS"