Orrville Collaborative Publishing (OCP) has been approached by Statslog Software Corporation to develop and distribute materials aimed at Contract Administrators in the offices of design professionals.
OOTB: Out-of-the-Box Student Manual
Statslog is best known for its product line dating back to 1984. Statslog has recently created a new sample project called “Out-of-the-Box” (OOTB) to present form and report templates that demonstrate the benefits of a relational database applied to contract administration. Over the next year, Statslog’s 37th anniversary year, OCP will undertake four projects that include:
A series of wall/poster diagrams showing the review cycles of Change Approval, Progress Approval, and Shop Drawing Processes
A broadside publication describing the contents and purpose of OOTB
A Student Manual on lessons learned from the development of OOTB
A book describing why the OOTB approach should be adopted by design professionals
FIVE by Statslog, uses technology to make contract administration in the office of a design professional more efficient. This product is possible because of techniques of relational database management (RDM). This methodology allows a user to collect a vast amounts of information, and also allows rapid access to that information, with little effort.
Rapid access, however does not mean the sender should truncate, or otherwise make short, the content of the communication. The ‘Twitter’ approach to contract administration is not consistent with historic best practices which encourage complete descriptions of the why, where, when, what, and who for any content. FIVE respects and encourages complete descriptions and lets the technology: organize, store, retrieve, publish, and distribute forms and reports that replicate the material and brand it to your needs. Aside from best practice niceties, there is a growing exposure for design professionals to liability from incomplete, or imprecise descriptions.
Release Date: Spring 2021