. . . Best Practices Index Page

Best Practice requires documentation. Since everyone is smarter than anyone, the Best Practice on creating documentation is to form a community-of-interest around a topic, using a formal methodology to create a Best Practice of relevance to everyone interested. This process can be summarized with the following six steps:

Clicking here or on the image above will bring up the top leve IDEF-0 activity model for this process. Note the key to creating Best Practices is documentation. Proper Best Practice documentation has been demonstrated to create 35% cost improvements for each time going through the Demming Cycle of:

• Best Practice Documentation,
• Internal Network and External Expert Review, and then
• Improved Best Practice Documentation.

Typically the length of this Demming Cycle is the time from project initiatiation to final report on the project. A project can be anything, for example 3-D seismic acquisition at a specific site. Several years ago Fletcher Challenge Petroleum demonstrated the 35% cost improvement with formal documentation of acquisition of a 3-D seismic survey in the Taraniki Basin (see http://www.walden3d.com/og2). Fletcher Challenge's formal definition of Best Practices (see http://www.walden3d.com/og1/bp.html), led to understanding the components to include in Best Practice Documentation:

• Best Process,
• Best Skills,
• Best Solutions or Case Histories, and
• Appropriate Resources (since there are always limitations of time and money).

Walden 3-D, Inc. has spent the last several years perfecting and semi-automating the process of documenting these Best Practice Components. This was recently demonstrated with the creation of a "Best Practice on Real-Time Drilling" by H. Roice Nelson, Jr., a geophysicist. To review this reasonably detailed first iteration Best Practice go to http://www.walden3d.com/og1. These pages are not currently passworded. However, if you know these pages exist it is because you were told by Roice Nelson or someone he trusts, and if you don't fall in this catagory please go surf someplace else. The machines accessing these pages are monitored and logged for legal purposes. Everytime you review these pages on a different machine, please send an e-mail to rnelson@walden3d.com informing Roice of your review and providing suggestions for improving the message. Thanks in advance.