Research good practices, standards and benchmarks for a problem
Look outside for how others solved the same problem: practices, standards, the maker’s recommendations and benchmarks, with their sources.
The task in figures
- Gives you back
- It does not recur every month
- Elmira today
- Does it
- Frequency
- Per project
- Who does it today
- Engineer, Senior
- Version
- Elmira Junior
What hurts today.
Searching takes hours, so little gets searched.
The sources get lost, and nobody can check where a figure came from.
What was found stays in an email, far from the problem.
Before inventing a solution, it pays to know how others solved the same thing: what the standard says, what the equipment maker recommends, what values the industry achieves. The engineer searches the internet, manuals and forums, gathers what they find in a document and sums it up for the team. It takes hours, the sources get lost and what was found does not stay with the problem.
Done today with
- Expert
- In-person meeting
- Paper and whiteboard
- Spreadsheet
- Email and chat
- Slides
Each step, today and with Elmira.
You ask Elmira on WhatsApp to search the web for how others solved a problem of your team, and she sums it up with its sources and, if you approve, keeps it in the document of the goal or the action.
| Step | Today | With Elmira |
|---|---|---|
| Search how others solved the same thing | Expert30 min – 2 h | |
| Sum it up for the team, with its sources | Slides, Paper and whiteboard20 min – 1 h | |
| Keep it in the document of the goal or the action | Email and chat, Spreadsheet5 min – 15 min | |
| Decide what applies here | In-person meeting, Expert | Your call |
The conversation
No example conversation: the Obeyaka web app does it, or it comes later.
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