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Increase the Reliability & Efficiency of Your Linear Project Plan With Trimble TILOS

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If you have planned a linear project without TILOS linear scheduling software, you have possibly experienced the exasperations of multipage GANTT charts that gives so much data, but not a great deal of clarity. Making use of a conventional project scheduling software is: Complicated… creating a precise baseline is pretty challenging. Baffling… modifying the plan produces a large chunk of tasks Incompetent…. Excess resources are needed to tackle multiple data sets. Unrealistic… measuring progress is usually done manually by field staff. How TILOS time location planning software is superior to CPM schedules and multipage GANTT Charts for linear projects. Envisage, a complete, dependable and easy to communicate project plan that shows all on one page. TILOS successfully automates Time- Location diagrams (also known as Line of Balance charts, March Charts and Time Distance Diagrams) where the whole project scope shows along the time & distance axes.    ...

5 Trends That Drive Digital Transformation in Construction Industry

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In the construction industry, there’re many roadblocks that keep organizations from digital transformation. Numerous construction projects are planned, and at times develop a disconnection between field and office employees. Construction managers must align on process, technology tools, and learn new technical skills. Yet investment in construction technology has doubled in the last few years. Advanced construction forms are selecting technology partners that give intuitive digital project management tools that each team member can utilize to work together and communicate more proficiently – keeping projects on track & on budget. The appropriate technology platforms position organizations to remain competitive, increase revenue and give huge benefits to investors, project planners, and the subcontractors and personnel they appoint to implement. So, how are you adapting to these 5 trends that drive digital transformation? Increased pressure to finish faster & ...

What Makes Sketchup the First Choice for Architects Around the World

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When Sketchup was first developed in 2003 by a couple of architecture students attending the University of Colorado, they had an idea of developing a piece of design software that was as simple to use as taking a Sharpie to a roll of trace paper. With the likes of VRAY, Rhino, 3Ds Max, and Maya standing tall & powerful on the top of the mountain of visualization software, Sketchup had to claw and fight it’s way towards that faraway peak. And it did so admirably, as more & more professionals began turning towards it as it was a tool that made their lives easier. Now, over a decade after its first release, you would be hard-pressed to come across an architecture workstation that does not have SketchUp installed on every one of its machine. Today it has turned out to be an industry standard, and something that architects across the globe have grown to love. Let’s talk about why so! It’s fast & easy to use: This is perhaps the foremost reason why architects l...

How to Accelerate Your Construction Project

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There’re several factors that can slow down a construction project, such as insufficient planning, inefficient communication, and simple mistakes that upshot in a depletion of time, labour and materials. Fortunately, it is feasible to eliminate most of these delays. There are many best practices associated to construction management that can be followed to ensure your project meets it deadlines without impacting the quality. Improve your planning: Improved planning is equal to improved output. Prior to you start working on a construction project, it’s necessary to have a detailed plan on how to do work so that you can finish it within deadline. The majority of construction project delay happens due to needless waiting time. Therefore, the ideal way to get it done fast is to plan how to eradicate these waiting times at each phase of the construction process. Invest in backup power: Irrespective of the size of the project, it’s necessary to have an emergency plan to man...

Four Tips Make Sure Effective Collaboration Between Project Teams

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Steve Jobs said, “Great things in business are never done alone, they are accomplished by a team.” The lesson about co-ordination is vital to remember in a professional environment where a lack of collaboration usually leads to reduced productivity. Project collaboration happens when a group of people with different project management skills & experiences come together to manage a single project. How to make sure effective collaboration between project teams? With many deadlines tiptoeing and pressure from the management or the clients, you might get distracted in maintaining a collaborative environment. To make sure that it does not happen, we’ve listed down 4 essential steps. Focus on proper communication within the team: The most important thing for you to do is improve the way you & your team communicates. Right communication in project management acts as a glue that holds a project team together and can make or break your project. Nearly 67% of professi...

Why Collaboration Is the Key to Business Growth

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Collaboration refers to 2 or more people working collectively to design, develop, test and manage workflows. Collaboration is turning out to be more entrenched in how we work. As per the 2017 WorkPlace Productivity and Communications Technology Report , more than two-thirds of employees’ time, or six hours out of 9 hours worked, was spent in communicating with other people. Likewise, a study done by Planview discovered that: 38% of respondents worked on cross-functional teams. 70% worked with people both inside & outside of their organization. 28% worked with team members placed in different nations. The rise of remote working, especially in 2021 is also driving collaboration. Being a project manager, you perhaps manage team members who work remotely. Also you may work remotely and need to manage the project team from a different location to the rest of your team. Successful collaboration provides numerous advantages to organizations including: Fast problem resolution...

How A Project Management Information System Can Make Your Client Happy

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Delivering a project within scope & without surprises is the goal of both clients and consultants. And while the skill and experience of the project delivery team is critical, choosing the right PMIS ( Project Management Information System ), is also essential for a successful outcome and a satisfied client. Here is how the most effective project management information system can deliver an optimized outcome to clients. Improved client focus: A solid project management information system lets project delivery teams & support staff to shift time spent on creating and maintaining project information capture to concentrating on more value-added activities. Automated reports and notifications: It lets your team provide “one click” reports & dashboards. These reports include real-time data with the up-to-date project info and minimizes time required to create reports from different information sources. Instead, you can produce an improved report, with all the da...