How connected are the people in your office? how easy is it to collaborate with your project partners, clients of product suppliers?
Reading a recent article on cloud computing, it re-emphasized the importance of developments like Autodesk’s Project Butterfly, and Project Bluestreak as well as challenging the traditional approach to establishing the IT infrastructure for a practise. Yes, I have had my affair with Google Docs, Xero, Project Basecamp, YousendIT and other cloud based applications, with mixed results. Xero is fantastic, but handling documents online has resulted in limited success, frustrated by the slight quirks with the interface & the lag when uploading content and transferring between documents. However the ability to version control, stimulate collaboration and theoretically store securely (warrants further discussion) gets project managers and managers in general excited.
What works for you? are you operating in the cloud or is your system locked down? What has your experience been with collaborative tools like Butterfly & Bluestreak, which looks to accelerate the bottle neck design process?
It would be great to hear some experiences from practises around the country
September 30, 2010 at 4:38 pm
When we talk about getting knowledge into the industry, and about how hard it is to deal with the councils, consider this.
Recently about one hundred people attended a 2.5hr seminar at the Manukau City Council that was dealing with the “C” documents and the changes to the timber treatment ie replacinc H3.1 with H1.2, the question was asked how many architects in the room? the answer…………..none! what do we do?
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