Abstract Unconventional development offers unique surface and subsurface challenges. Often time’s teams are required to make critical decisions with limited amount of data and a constrained understanding of reservoir behavior. Because of this tools such as rate transient analysis (RTA) and other analytical models are utilized to quickly evaluate well performance and provide context for development considerations. Despite its practicality, RTA is still fraught with the same limitations as many other tools used to evaluate unconventional development. In the case of the Eagle Ford shale, the characterization and interaction of parent and child well fracture geometries provides an especially difficult challenge. The speaker offers a holistic approach taken by an asset team in an attempt to solve this problem. Using RTA and Predict-K, an analytical production simulator, the team was able to arrive at the same conclusion using completely different approaches. The result of this case study was a better understanding of the parent-child relationship and the ability to modify tools and constrain the range of outcomes. This new approach can help teams solve complex problems with limited amounted of data, using relatively inexpensive tools, and in a time efficient manner. Biography James Tucker has worked for Devon Energy since 2011 in multiple basins and engineering positions. His focus has been on U.S. onshore operations in planning and technical roles. Much of his time was spent working the Eagle Ford shale where he helped develop a widely adopted drawdown workflow, optimize well spacing and completions, and work on stacked and staggered lateral development. Tucker is currently working the STACK play as a Reservoir Engineer on an asset development team. He graduated from the Colorado School of Mines in 2011 with a BS in Petroleum Engineering and is a proud alumni of the Oredigger football team.