Keeping CES Healthy September 2003

CES Assessment Review the use of CES from the estimator’s perspective –A day and half on site at Florida, Minnesota, and Ohio –A half a day at Colorado Included hands-on walkthrough of common processes by the Estimators –Included IT representatives –Included Development and Implementation representatives

Agenda Environment Types/Number of users Current Issues Current Workflow Options

Environment Oracle database (CO Sybase) Client –OH – P2, 192 MB, XP –MN – P3, 256 MB, 2000 –FL – Citrix MetaFrame servers Better Speed –OH network and DB Access –MN client –FL overall

Users and usage Where –Combination of central and/or district Currently under 12 users per agency –More in the future as CES gets new use in the districts Item level, no parametric Mixture of reference prices, bid-based, and cost based pricing

Cost Sheets

Bid Histories By time range –1.5-year, 2-year, and 3-year By work type –Asphalt, Bridge, General Collapse items –With adhoc Minimum occurrences –With using IRANK

Workflow Primary process used 1)Check out data from PES –Project, and/or Proposal 2)Bring in tasks from defaults or snapshots 3)Update prices 4)Check-in to PES Other –Pavement determination

Import

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Job Information

Items Grid

Results Open in change mode by default Button for check-in/check-out Include choice to automatically bring in default tasks Set so default is to filter/select on Proposal/Project id ~14 steps to 2 steps

Items Tree

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Items Tree

Reference Price

Overall Collected 60+ issues Classified and grouped into TMR’s –Created 16 new TMR’s from ~35 issues and scheduled for release by June 2004 –Identified 10 potential TMR’s for CES enhancements –Identified 10 potential TMR’s for BAMS/DSS enhancements Posted Update in July including top 4 issues from assessment

Conclusion ???

Conclusion ! GREAT IDEA !