Time is Money

How's that rollout of Revit 2012 going?

Figured out Revit Server?

How about all the other stuff in the 2012 release?

• New Features?
• New Functionality?
• Best Practices?
• Latest and Greatest BIM-centric Technologies?

Well, there's at least two options:

First, you read everything you can get your hands on (after hours of course) and dig around AUGI and other forums. Make sure that you get up to speed on any idiosyncrasies and gotchas. Then when you're really sure you're sure of how things work - or don't - you start to roll out Revit 2012. And let's suppose you're managing an office of 30 Revit users and your trial and error process takes about 3 months.

30 Revit users. 30 billable hours a week. 12 weeks. $100 a billable hour. That's about $1million dollars.

Or?

Second, you register for RTC North America and get up to speed NOW. Learn from those already using it (many of them since before it was in beta). Ask a lot of questions. Get a lot of answers. Then go back to your office and start rolling out Revit 2012 ASAP - confidently - not accidentally.

And because time is money, your attendance at RTC North America is going to set the office back about $3k (registration, flights, etc) and two business days (Wednesday night through Saturday night) of concentrated effort.

So let's put this into perspective. For an investment of $3k you can have a positive impact on $1million in billable work over the next three months (or longer). In other words, 0.2% (that's right - two-tenths of one percent) of three months billable work as an investment to increase productivity.

$3,000 out of $1,000,000.

So register today. And if your manager still isn't convinced that you should attend and keeps telling you there's "no budget", well there's always option number three: pay your own way.

And when you get there - pass along your resume to the office leaders and technology managers that are running their businesses so well that they insist their BIM managers attend RTC North America. Because time is money. And success isn't an accident.

And those guys are hiring.