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Design coordination portal: distribute issues across disciplines

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An issue must connect drawings and discipline owners while separating the solution decision from publication of revised documents.

A clash between drawings involves more than one discipline; distributing only a task list loses the technical intersection.

The rule that changes the scope

An issue must connect drawings and discipline owners while separating the solution decision from publication of revised documents.

A project manager handles tasks; a custom portal links elements, solution proposals and technical deliverables.

A coordination decision can affect documents absent from the original question. Staff should add those relationships without giving the issue a new identity. Request a discipline view to check each owner's outstanding work and an issue view to verify the combined solution. Include receipt of an incomplete revision in scope: publishing a new file does not prove the conflict is resolved or that every participating discipline updated its design.

Specify operational deliverables

  • Locate the incompatibility in the documents and identify the participating disciplines.
  • Record the proposed solution and the people responsible for updating each sheet.
  • Link closure to checking published revisions rather than simply answering a comment.

Test the exception before acceptance

In a hypothetical scenario, one discipline fixes its drawing while another has not published its revision; the issue must remain partly open.

Reference for assessing scope

NN/g: writing task scenarios for usability testing

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