The Owners' Manual - Issue 12 - Winter 2018

Back to Basics (Pet Peeves) Everyone has at least one and for many of them it is the reason why we have outlined best practices and standards. At the beginning of each year we revisit many of those standards as a refresher. Below are a few items that have been submitted as a “Pet Peeve” as a starting and focus point for 2018.

Pet Peeve: File Naming My pet peeve continues to be document naming. Employees continue to name documents (I’m mainly thinking of proposals right now) incorrectly and tend to name all documents in a way that will remind them what it is. As an example, it’s: C-PRP- LastName.FirstInitial-JobNumber ..., not the other way around, or no name at all. It can be time consuming trying to find a document when it isn’t named according to standards.

We have a standard format for the naming of our documents and files which is covered in the “FILE NAMING AND FILE SAVING STANDARDS” document that is located on our Intranet > Knowledge Base > Manuals. The section being referenced starts on page 11. It is very important that everyone that may be looking for information pertaining to any project be able to find it efficiently and effectively. You are rarely the only individual referencing information pertaining to proposals and projects.

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