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What To Look For In Your Project Management Software For Construction

By Marissa Velazquez


Project management software for construction is capable of aiding your organization to come up with accurate resource estimates, easier managing, organizing and planning of resource pools. The complexity of the application can help you manage plans and estimates, control costs, schedule and improve decision-making. Listed below are some features that any such application should present before you deploy it in your firm.

Since time is money in the construction industry, your application should be able to accelerate the process of managing your projects. This means that it should have the capability to offer up-to-date information that should make the decision-making process faster and more accurate. A great system should be a one-stop repository for all schedule changes, clarifications, responses, RFI statuses, photos, changed orders and documents.

Another important feature of a good system is that it should be easy to learn and use. The entire team should be involved in using it for successful collaboration of the individual efforts. A simple to use application should also include tutorial videos and how-to-use articles that will make it easier for staff to learn how to get the most out of it effectively.

Support is a crucial component of any system and should be in such an area that members of your team can easily access. Support should be available twenty-four hours seven days a week and contains video tutorials that are accessible through web-enabled devices. Other forms of support that you should insist on include live chat, email support and scheduled phone support sessions.

Web based systems should also be accessible to several members of your team through a watertight access agreement. The system should be capable of supporting as many team members as possible without requiring you to incur further costs. Once you have more team members using the system, their collaboration will become more efficient, adding value to your organization.

Data can be distorted irreversibly by different types of failures including natural disasters (earthquakes or tornadoes), man-made disasters (arson or industrial espionage), software failure as well as hardware failure. The system you choose should have mechanisms in place to alleviate against such disasters in order to avoid downtime. One of the main objectives of any system is to ensure that it is up and functional 99.99% of the time.

The best designed application should also be accessible through a number of platforms including iPad and smartphone (iOS and Android based) technologies. This way, managing your daily tasks becomes an easy task that will help in further improving information share between your team members as long as they have an internet connection. This allows sharing of critical data and information much faster especially when it comes to tracking the project's progression.

Project management software for construction is a useful tool but if used inefficiently, it can generate a humongous amount of data that does not indicate critical issues that need immediate addressing. A good system should instead illuminate such areas without creating further confusion. To that end, the best system should address the points elaborated above as well as many others in order to help managers keep track of the information generated on various projects.




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