hi, there have been loads of white papers written about this, but i think they are not worth reading. i have been involved in many implementations of revit into offices and some take the firms longer than they would of in Autocad and some were completed much quicker. questions to ask your self. 1- was the project a standard project for your firm? I find a lot of small/medium size firms get a large contract or a complecated project and try to do this as ther first project (this is a big mistake as you are learning both revit and new type of project) 2 did you have adaqute training first? And i don't mean a 3 day introduction course. It is unrealistic to expect a client to pay for days you were on say a health a safety course and its the same with new software, you should be very comfortable with revit before you start a live project. 3. did you have back up support? did you either employ someone who already had revit experience or have support form a reseller (this should be at least 1/2 day every 3 days at a minimum). 4. did you include the time to make custom famlies, titleblocks ect, I don't inlude these as project work in the first few projects and would advise if you have a lot of them to farm them out to a revit family creation firm as it is a lot better value for money, if you have just spent say €5000 x 20 seats of revit and maybe €1000 x 20 for new PC's (total €120,000) then spending €12000 on having all of your famlies made right for you is a small price to pay so your 20 users will be efficient from the first project. I try to get firms to always account 10% of ther "revit" budget to get famlies made. if you answered yes to all 4 and the project didn't take the same time and resources as normal then you have to look at where it went wrong as it shouldn't hope this helps.
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