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5 questions all Project Managers should ask themselves before they start a project

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Many project managers who work on projects with a lot of repetition tell us that they have to spend up to 50% of their time each week on admin-heavy tasks related to planning. Their programme is stuck on MS Project and to update it they have to go through countless WhatsApp notifications, emails, or phone calls.

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How a large residential contractor reduced building time 5x by moving their schedule to the cloud

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Provivienda used to rely on MS Project for planning but updates from site were infrequent and problems could not be escalated quickly. Furthermore, having subcontractors arrive at the right time was very important as Provivienda develops multiple projects at a time. Materials inventory reduced from $2 mil to $100,000.

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How to bring your construction schedule straight to the site

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How can you seamlessly connect your project schedule to the site? Many project managers rely on WhatsApp and Excel for their communication with the field. They are both tools that can bring value to your projects and allow you to share information with other stakeholders. They lack a real-time link to the schedule.

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Did you know that 80% of the people who deliver on time stick to their budget?

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As a project manager or site foreman, you should at all times have a detailed overview of everything that is happening there. That’s the only way to track change and react to critical issues on time to keep the heartbeat of your project stable. material inventory). How can you achieve this? Hernandez Sosa.

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Using Business Intelligence to Gain a Competitive Edge

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Whether you’re an owner, executive, project manager, or job supervisor, it’s important to know what’s happening in your business and how you stand next to the competition. When profit margins are thin, it doesn’t take much to wipe out a project’s financial benefits. Scheduling, planning, and collaboration optimization.

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Service Management Construction Software | Construction Manager Software

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From managing service contracts, to generating work orders at the office or in the field, to efficiently dispatching technicians, Spectrum Service Management Construction Software provides a complete solution for all aspects of your service business. Schedule preventive maintenance visits months in advance. Project Management.

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Why you need a clear definition of “done” in your projects

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They may even cause commercial claims that can jeopardise project margins. Hence, project managers need to get subcontractors and other project participants to contribute to creating a single, central, live view of their project planning into their project management. Better labour management.