This view will enable you to see the stages of projects at a very high level, and ensure you can plan for the future as well as knowing what is happening in the present.
Having a good view of where larger projects are at, how they are broken down with an expected start and end date of each stage, and how much time is left for each stage has historically been quite difficult to get an easy view of. Using excel or whiteboards are commonly used for this kind of visibility, or other highly expensive software specifically for managing projects that can be overly complex.
If you already use ‘tasks’ within jobs on NextMinute, this view takes that one step further as the tasks can be displayed on the Job Planning view if you would like them to, or if you didn’t want to display a task on this view (such as a planned meeting with an Architect), simply choose not too.
Questions you may have:
- Who has access to Job Planning? – Anyone with an ‘Administration’ level account within NextMinute
- Is this an ‘add-on’ or is it automatically in NextMinute? – It’s automatically added in with our latest update. No add-on required!
- What if I need to change the expected date of part of a project? – There are some real smarts in Job Planning, where you are able to make certain stages depend on the previous stage being complete (see the arrows on the above picture?) This means, if there are any delays, or you need to push a stage out for any reason, everything that depends on that stage will automatically be pushed out.
- Can I add more than one job to Job Planning at a time? – Of course, as many as you need to display and you can search for the jobs you want to see or add filters to see only what you would like.
Learn More:
For further details on how to make the most of this new feature and others, checkout:
- Knowledge base article – step by step how to
- Watch the YouTube video of how this works
- Watch the webinar recording overview of Job Planning, this is a great idea if you have questions that may not have been covered in the YouTube video or want to understand how to create template jobs with stages (tasks) attached for the job planning.
