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Product News: Are You Getting the Most out of PubWorks?
By Pete Anzalone

Recently, I visited our Idaho customer Bannock County Road & Bridge in Pocatello. Bannock had just hired a new office manager, Colleen Robbins, to replace the retiring Linda Boyd. Colleen and her boss, Dan Copeland, wanted to restructure their PubWorks database to simplify data collection and improve reporting.

Colleen, Dan, and Brett Grayson thoroughly took me through their new plan of attack; how they would reduce their tasks list, standardizing material charge rates for gravel and chips, charging for equipment based on a 50 minute hour, consolidating locations and reorganizing projects. I offered a few minor refinements and adjustments to their plan that would help take advantage of certain subtle powers possessed by PubWorks.

This exercise was mutually very beneficial. Generally speaking, I got to see two valuable things: (1) the before and after of how PubWorkss is being used at Bannock County Road & Bridge (2) the ease with which Colleen - a PubWorks newcomer with no formal training - was able to grasp the nature of PubWorks and what it can do.

As a result of our meeting, Bannock County has a strong feeling of confidence in their data collection and information reporting plan for the new fiscal year. The plan might not be perfect, but given the flexibility of PubWorks, plan adjustments and refinements will be easy to identify and implement.

If you are interested in conducting a similar review of your PubWorks system, please me
at (970) 923-0380.

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