The next level of technology in project management
We’re grateful to our clients for helping us lead the way in the effective use of project management technology. They’ve worked along side us on projects as we developed new processes for communication, collaboration, and information sharing via cloud-based project management platforms. With their help, we’ve fundamentally changed the way that we communicate with clients, suppliers, and subcontractors and reached an unprecedented level of transparency in the construction industry.
We’d like to share our experience implementing Smartsheet to support our financial institution design-build projects. Smartsheet is a spreadsheet-based project management and scheduling platform that allows users to collaborate on tasks and activities in a project and provides live visibility of a project’s status. We’ve used this platform to improve communication, transparency, tracking, accountability, and collaboration. We’re sharing this experience because we believe that our takeaways could help you better manage projects in any domain.
Tracking and Accountability
A construction project has many participants and moving parts, and any single task has the ability to massively impact cost, schedule, and results. These pieces have been traditionally fragmented across multiple documents and communication channels, and the process of saving and sharing these documents meant that information drifted out of sync and there wasn’t a single source of truth. Smartsheet allows us to bring all of these parts together in one place where they can be effectively tracked and managed.
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