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"If you want to go fast, go alone."
"if you want to go far, go together."
"If you want to ORD, get together."
Do NOT go alone.
Why we're back:
The biggest impediment to success in OpenRoads is its complexity. A BIM/Digital Twin platform - with Design Intent (memory) - is dramatically more complex than a plans production program. The Vendor Support/Training system is arguably better, but not significantly. The gap is huge. How do you bridge it?
Extraordinary Complexity Requires Extraordinary Support.
Whether it's a conversation with your subject matter experts or full-on custom training, we can help. We've been there.
OpenRoads Designer is complex, we can shorten your learning curve and avoid costly mistakes.
At this point, everything we do here at Civil XLr8 is custom. Let's meet YOUR needs. Bentley has free* OnDemand formal training - take advantage of that. We can bridge the gap between general/generic publications and what you need for success.
- Consulting - anything you need, any structure you prefer.
- Training - live "giant monolith"; periodic short chunks ("modular"). What works for you? I love in-person; remote works well.
- Custom Training Development
- Implementation Planning and Execution
- OpenRoads Workspace Development and Administration
- Risk Awareness and Mitigation
Website Development / Internal Support Hubs
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Live Training Value
One of the first things I do when I start an on-site class is ask:
"Why Am I Here?"
- What value do I add by being here?
- Why did your company pay me money to teach you something that is available for free?
- Videos of these lectures and exercise are availble online. In fact, in many of them, I'm the narrator (unlikely now, but common at the time).
- Why Am I Here?
- It forces staff to spend the time 24, 32 or 40 hours taking the training.
- I can answer "detail" questions and provide context.
- I diagnose, triage, and curate. There is a LOT of content available, some of it is critical to you, much is not. Some has a negative consequence. The first hour I spend focused on learning your needs, picking appropriate foundational material to work through for the first day. Over the course of the day (and the next), I refine my understanding of what you need and then find the best material available. Generally if there is a day 4, I've got some new custom exercise that fill the biggest gap in the material that fits your needs.
- I can translate the generic workflow to how you do things or how you should be doing things for your projects' unique or quirky needs.
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Best Advice: Learn to Use your Support Resources
"If you want to go fast, go alone."
"if you want to go far, go together."
"If you want to ORD, get together."
Do NOT go alone.
Use the resources you have available, all of them.
(For a video read-through of this page: The #1 Best Practice for OpenRoads Success )
(As far as I know) If you have a license for any Bentley Civil software package, you have access to Bentley's LEARNserver (Learn.Bentley.com) and to Communities.Bentley.com. Learn them, use them.
This should be your first goal when learning to use OpenRoads: ensure that your staff can use the immediate permanent resources available to them:
- Learn how Learn.Bentley.com works. Take one or two short OnDemand Bentley LEARN classes; they are all available to you at all times. They are typically, a PDF, a dataset and videos walking through the course.
- Find and poke around the OpenRoads | OpenSite Community. Wiki is their curated content, Forums is the Question & Answer. Search for some topics, get a feel for it.
- If you already have questions, see if you can find some answers.
- If you don't find an answer ask a question there. Expect a couple days for questions to be answered.
- If you already have questions, see if you can find some answers.
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