Master Project Stickfile

Does anyone remember what this used to be?

For the uninitiated, it was a centrally-located, bound collection of the latest project prints that was issued on a regular basis. All the active disciplines in a project would use it as a reference point for what the current project status was. Knowledgeable affected representatives from different disciplines could collect around the master stickfile and discuss the latest changes/proposed changes and mark-up/initialize needed modifications. This wasn't done in an "official" meeting format, but was rather an informal hashing out of what needed to be done (which would be approved by management later in 95% of cases).

Does this still exist or has everything been transformed into time-consuming, useless meetings, Powerpoint slide presentations, email miscommunication and multi-user CAD models that are difficult to navigate for the typical (non-CAD) engineer?

With this question I'm referring to large scale projects.

Paul Received on Thu Nov 20 00:19:00 2003