Introduction
Construction projects rarely go completely to plan, with clients discovering obstacles or opportunities to deviate from the plan, projects being incorrectly estimated and needing to be amended and new packages or changes being requested. While change events and delays are a standard and expected part of project management, managing these delays is often done manually and inefficiently, which costs companies and projects time and money.
For this reason, it's important that you have a tool or process for mitigating these delays and moving your projects forward as quickly as possible.
Using Dashpivot, you can manage all of your change events and delays effectively through simple and smart automation - making your delay analysis process efficient and professional.
Key Features
Standardise the way delays are reported and processed
Link photos as evidence
Automatically generate a register of all delays
Access records on the go via the mobile/tablet app
Download, print or send your forms as PDFs, with professional layout and company branding
Best Practices
Setup your delay template as a workflow, to clarify and standardise your team's process
Setup workflow notifications to notify the right people when delays occur
Include a photo field in the template - photos and videos are some of the fastest ways to communicate a situation, and function as strong evidence.
Use list fields where possible (eg. delay type, subcontractor involved), so you can find records fast, and identify patterns over time using breakdown and filter settings on any analytics charts
Use category fields and dropdown menus in table fields where appropriate, to make the form faster to fill out
Getting started
You can access a Free Change Events Template from Dashpivot's Template Library. Go to Templates > Add Template > Choose from Free Public Template Library.