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Sam's journey · On the job (delivery) · Lesson 7

The night before

Before you start

In the story

Every piece checked. The whole thing looked at for the first time, the night before.

Back to the story

The right way

The plan

The plan books a review of the whole package before every milestone, with a date in the diary.

A week before

All the teams' work is put together and reviewed a week before it goes, not a night. Every clash gets an owner and gets fixed, or is recorded honestly if it can't be.

Friday

The client gets a package that fits together, and a short note of what's still open.

The night beforeForty clashes, fourteen hours, and forty comments back.
A week beforeReviewed together, fixed or recorded, and a package that fits.
Think like Sam

When is your next milestone, and when is the whole-package review booked? If the answer is "the night before", book it now.

Continue Sam's journey

Story 8: It got out

Drawings showing how The Glasshouse is controlled leave the building. Nobody knows what to do next.
The right way, explained

The right way, explained

Every house on the street can pass its inspection and the street still not line up. Someone has to walk the whole street before anyone moves in.

If you're the project manager

If you're the project manager

Put the whole-package review in your programme as an activity, with a date, before every milestone.

In the town See it in the town: the parts list says two doors. Have we got two doors?

Sam's view: every firm's parcels laid out together and checked against the parts list, before anything goes to the client.

Show:
The need, travelling from the client to the design team and the site team On the left, the Client Town asks "What are we building?". The need travels to the project site. From there it splits: up to the Design System, where Alex plans 40 drawings and starts designing in the work-in-progress room, and down to the site cabin, where Dave lists detail drawings, RFIs and inspections to prove the work is right. CLIENT TOWN "What are we building?" THE NEED PROJECT SITE PROJECT CDE DESIGN SYSTEM WORK IN PROGRESS WE NEED: ☐ 40 drawings☐ 3 models☐ 1 design report Who · by when "OK, we need 40 drawings. Let's plan it." SITE CABIN WE NEED: ☐ 6 detail drawings☐ RFIs for any issues☐ 9 inspections to prove it's right "Details, RFIs and inspections to prove it."
The need, turned into a plan. Who makes what, and by when.

This is the Information Model Review!

Laying out the parts. The parts list says two doors: have we got two doors, and do they hang straight?

For the audit What the auditor will ask
  • Show me the review before the last milestone.
  • What did it find, and what happened next?
For the audit What good evidence looks like
  • A review record for each milestone.
  • Issues with owners.
  • What was sent, and what was still open.
From the standard
ISO 19650 Reviewing the whole model

Before information goes for sign-off at a milestone, ISO 19650 expects the delivery team to review the whole information model together, not just each piece on its own.

The reviewIn plain words
WhenBefore every milestone, booked in the plan
WhatEveryone's work, together
Clashes and gapsEach one owned: fixed, or recorded honestly
What goesA package that fits, and a note of what's still open

Based on the ISO 19650 series: the ideas come from the standard; the plain-English wording, examples and advice are InfoTown's. ISO 19650 is © ISO and BSI. You'll hear the same language across the industry. Read more for free in the Information Management Initiative (IMI) Framework guidance from BSI and nima. For the full requirements, use the standard itself.