Category: Engineering Information Management

  • Strategy – Ready, Aim, Fire

    Strategy – Ready, Aim, Fire

    Ready, Aim, Fire Seems logical. You set some goals, plan how you’re going to reach those goals, then pull the trigger on execution. And it is logical as long as you’re dealing with known quantities. You know…you’ve done this type of project before and have a pretty good ideal of what it takes to be…

  • Can you think about strategy too much?

    Can you think about strategy too much?

    A good percentage of the posts here touch on the topic of thinking. But can you “over-think”? Ok…I’m going to carefully step out on a slippery slope here and try to find a balance. On the one hand, we can labor overt what our strategy should be, and spend so much time honing it that…

  • Did Bentley just ship Records Management for ProjectWise?

    Did Bentley just ship Records Management for ProjectWise?

    With the announcement that Bentley’s latest release of eB Insight (That’s SELECTSeries 3) brought Department of Defense 5015.02 Records Management certification, one might ask when will Bentley get around to certifying ProjectWise for records management? Well the answer is both “never” and “just did”. ProjectWise is aimed at work in progress, collaborative design workflows and the processes managed there do spinoff documents…

  • We don’t need no stinkin’ change management

    We don’t need no stinkin’ change management

    Funny, but I don’t agree with Dilbert on this one. Better that we do both proper change management AND have sensible strategies for Asset Lifecycle Information Management system implementations. (Click the title if you don’t see the image)   http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2012-10-29/