Description: This guide sets out to provide a framework tool to assist e-Project information users, whether they are clients, project managers, designers, builders or users, maintainers or operators. The object of the guide is not to prescribe but to offer a chronological checklist of issues to be addressed to help the users with the task of effectively managing project information through electronic tools.

Eight Stages are proposed split into two key development phases as follows:

Preliminary Phases
Stage 1: Identify the Project
Stage 2: Capture e-Project information CONTENT
Stage 3: Identify SOURCES of e-Project information
Stage 4: Project information management tools

e-Project 'going live' Phases
Stage 5: Establish e-Project information processes
Stage 6: Set up e-Project infrastructure
Stage 7: Manage e-Project information
Stage 8: e-Project information management feedback.

Out of the above, Stages 1 through to 4 would be considered good practice on all projects, irrespective how the information is to be managed. This is one of the complimentary advantages of the suggested approach in this guide; in order to use the e-Project information tool the preliminary processes required encourages a full review of project objectives, practices and their efficiencies. In this way, the electronic tool is used as a means of achieving an OUTCOME, which will improve the way project information, is traditionally managed.