Emilia (client's information manager): Use our CDE.
Everyone nods.
The client has a Common Data Environment (CDE). So do we. So does Alex's firm. Nobody decided which one counts.
The wrong way
Emilia (client's information manager): Use our CDE.
Everyone nods.
Our team keeps using ours as well, "just for our own stuff". Alex's firm keeps using theirs.
Stevie uploads the new survey to the client's CDE. Alex downloads one from ours. Last month's.
Two drawing registers. Two "latest" revisions of the inlet chamber.
Site builds from one. The Clerk of Works checks against the other.
Sam spends Friday reconciling three systems with a spreadsheet. The Clerk of Works is not smiling.
Three systems, two "latest" drawings, and a Clerk of Works who is not smiling.
Find out what Sam should have doneSam's Lesson 1 · Which one's the real one?, then the same story done the right way.