8:15-10:00 AM Best Practice Methodology

• Example Best Practice for 3-D Seismic Acquisition
• Best Practice Components:
  1. Best Skills
  2. Best Process
  3. Appropriate Resources
  4. Best Solutions or Case Histories
• Goal of Best Practices
• Managing By Wire
• Continuous Improvement

10:15-12:00 PM IDEF Modeling

• Importance of a Formal Process to Capture Best Practices
• IDEF Language of Lines and Boxes
• IDEF-0: Activity Models
• IDEF-1X: Entity-Relationship Models
• IDEF-2: Business Process Simulation
• IDEF-3: Work Flow Adding Boolean Logic
• Laws of Form
• Semi-Automatic Derivation of IDEF Models

1:15-3:00 PM Ideal Oil & Gas Company Activity Model/Checklist

• The Ideal Oil & Gas Company
• Modeling the Ideal
• Uses of the Model:
  1. Process Checklist
  2. Heat Maps
  3. Skills Capture and Index
  4. Resource Capture and Index
  5. Case History Index
  6. Web Context Based Search Engine
  7. Optimizing Mergers

3:15-4:00 PM Best Practice Creation Workshop

• Select Best Practice Topics
• Break into Groups for Selected Topics
• Build Process Model Index for Best Practice Topic

4:00-5:00 PM Class Presentation of Workshop Best Practices

• Select Group Leader
• Each Group Presents Process Model Index for Their Best Practice Topic