When projects require a quick turnaround and the construction portion of the schedule will be over in a matter of weeks, you probably don’t need the full power of sitefolio’s conditional logic scheduling engine. We’re talking minor construction – such as getting the interior shell in place – and things like maintenance. Maintaining detailed progress of this type of work provides no immediate value. It happens too fast.
Still, it’s critical to ensure short construction projects are completed on time and to specification. These projects generally involve many moving parts converging at the site with multiple departmental and external business partners waiting to execute their roles at precisely the right time. The solution, then, is a checklist – a departmental focused master schedule that shows everything from planning through execution. The checklist ensures all parties understand when and what they need to execute.
When approaching the schedule as an inter-departmental checklist a nice strategy is to group these milestones within a series of phases known as “gates”. Gates help keep your projected schedule from jumping all over the place as each task is completed, essentially forming a critical path based on phases. Knowing that “these five items” require completion by a specified date allows staff to be responsible for their own workflow. It keeps your projected schedule stable - only pushing the schedule forward if any milestone in the gate occurs after each gates’ due date.
site|folio’s scheduling edition is designed to handle the subtle but real differences of small and larger projects. Imagine the time your team will save retiring outdated spreadsheets or inflexible systems. Great scheduling isn’t just for larger projects.
