We begin the COMPASS process with an interactive workshop that we call the COMPASS Planning Session. At the COMPASS Planning Session, all of the stakeholders are invited to express their objectives, concerns, creative ideas, and vision of success. Depending upon the complexity of the project and the number of stakeholders, the COMPASS Planning Session can last one hour or one day.

The goals established in the COMPASS Planning Session are taken seriously. They become the criteria upon which we will navigate the project through the challenges of budget, schedule, quality, procurement, risk management, etc… The goals and data that are collected at the COMPASS Planning Session are recorded and updated in a binder…the Atlas. Every stakeholder is given an Atlas to refer to as the project progresses and to hold important project information.

During the COMPASS Planning Session, the team establishes the criteria upon which the success of the project will be measured. All aspects, including communication, quality, cost, schedule and safety, will be reviewed. When the project is fifty percent complete, an independent team of EDiS executives will audit the project using the criteria established at the planning session to evaluate if the goals are being achieved. At the completion of the project, a different team will use the same criteria to conduct a final evaluation session with the customer. Over the past thirty years this system has allowed us to accumulate a vast understanding of project risks to how to proactively address them.