CONTACTS 
0201 - Pacific Gas & Electric Company                                                                                                                                 O-00000642 0201
020101 - Mr. Bill DeHart, PMP
020102 - Project Manager
020103 - Project Management                                                                                                                                               O-00000642 0201

SUBJECTS
PG&E Com Metrics Web Mail Better than Email
Project Management New Fiberoptic Infrastructure $.5B
Bill's Home Computer on W2K, Planning
Windows 2000 Installation
History Entering Entire Project is Costly and Takes Too Long
Data Base Reports Converted to Knowledge by Managers
Information Data Not Knowledge, Wisdom, Vision

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1410 - Summary/Objective
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141101 - Follow up ref SDS 34 0000, ref SDS 30 0000.
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141103 - Bill installed W2K recently, per my suggestion a few months ago.
141105 -  ..
141106 - He wants to install SDS on his computer for a new project starting
141107 - shortly.
141109 -  ..
141110 - He has a 50 GB drive, and has configured the drives for the SDS
141111 - development version.  Bill has read the letter to the team at SRI,
141112 - ref DIP 3 016P, on 001121 explaining terms for using SDS. ref SDS 36
141113 - XU8I
141115 -  ..
141116 - Bill will let me know when to install SDS.
141118 -  ..
141119 - The new project is about $500M to install some 5K miles of fiberoptic
141120 - infrastructure in the Bay Area, including SF.
141122 -  ..
141123 - The complexity of coordinating this project is much greater than prior
141124 - fiberoptic projects where PG&E has mainly observed work by developers
141125 - and contractors, who performed the design and construction using
141126 - existing PG&E facilities, and rights of way.  The new project entails
141127 - engineering, contracts, real estate, and other functions using PG&E
141128 - staff, and requires expanding PG&E facilities,  This additional scope,
141129 - relative to past fiberoptic projects, requires increased planning and
141130 - managing daily activity of PG&E resources, and, also, close
141131 - collaboration with key outside partners to ensure PG&E's interest in
141132 - the project is protected. // A key contributor is putting up the
141133 - $500M, but only has 12 employees. //
141135 -  ..
141136 - Bill recalled that SDS was successful on the CDWR project, which was,
141137 - also, very complex, per a meeting on 941010. ref SDS 4 7777  Later on
141138 - 941130 the manager of the Transmission Department, Chris Snyder,
141139 - reported that other department staff had reported to him that SDS had
141140 - improved the work. ref SDS 5 0003
141142 -  ..
141143 - More recently on 000709 Bill explained SDS advantages, ref SDS 35
141144 - 0784, during a telephone call with Morris.
141146 -  ..
141147 - Bill said today, it is still startling that SDS is effective starting
141148 - at any time during a project, without going back and entering all of
141149 - the project history, which he originally expected would be necessary
141150 - on 940628, ref SDS 2 9052, but proved to be unnecessary by experience
141151 - using SDS at PG&E discussed months later on 941004, ref SDS 3 0785,
141153 -  ..
141154 - Bill will visit with the Director of his group about using SDS to aid
141155 - PG&E management, per the meeting at PG&E on 941130. ref SDS 5 0003  He
141156 - can demonstrate SDS advantages using the record on the Internet, and
141157 - cite prior success using SDS at PG&E, per his letter, ref DRP 1 8444,
141158 - on 950110. ref SDS 6 9482
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141160 -     [On 001208 Bill called about scheduling a meeting. ref SDS 37 0001
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141163 - The project starts in about a month or so.  They need to get some
141164 - initial system installed to demonstrate revenue generating capacity of
141165 - the overall build-out.
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141168 - Bill is working on a project launch plan.
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