Contract award
The bid's information plan goes into a folder called TENDER.
Sam's journey · On the job (delivery) · Story 2
The plan grows up
The bid's information plan won the job. Then it went in a folder called TENDER.
The wrong way
Get readyGet ready: Month one…
Month one
Nobody updates it. It still names the bid team, and three people who've since left.
DesignDesign: Month two…
Month two
Alex's firm asks which naming rules to use. Three people give three answers.
Month two
Each answer comes from a different version of the plan. One of them is from the last job.
Month two
Emilia (client's information manager): This says you'll appoint an information manager.
Sam: "We did. It's me."
Get readyGet ready: The weekend…
The weekend
Sam spends a weekend writing down the plan the job has actually been running on. Backwards.
The plan everyone works to was never written down. The one that was written down, nobody works to.
Find out what Sam should have doneSam's Lesson 2 · The plan grows up, then the same story done the right way.