Hello my name is Bill, and I'm a customer success manager here
at LetsBuild.
Prior to joining
LetsBuild, I worked
as a project manager for about seven years.
And so I'm all too familiar with the difficulties
of getting accurate progress updates from site, especially
if you're not able to be on site on a daily basis.
So I wanted to make a short video just
to show you how easy it is for site operatives
to make progress updates using our mobile application.
And then how we can use those progress
updates and our new Microsoft Project plugin
to make changes to the project programme.
And then push those changes back out to the individuals on site.
So first of all, I've pulled up just a simple single house
example project, which you can see on the desktop
and on my mobile phone on the screen there.
So what I'm going to do is, first
of all, make an update to excavate for foundations
and services task.
So if I select the task on the mobile application,
I can see that
my planned finishing date is today.
But obviously, my progress is only at 10%.
So if I'm on site
and I make an update,
and then add a comment that the task is delayed,
and submit that comment,
you can see that that change has been reflected in real time
into the project programme.
Now I can see in the comments that we're delayed and as the project
planner,
I know that that means my task of laying
the foundations, which is due to start on Monday,
is also going to have to be delayed.
So now what I can do using our Microsoft Project plugin
is come into my project file.
So I have the same project programme here. Using the plug-in,
if I pull information,
first of all, I can see that some of my dates have changed.
And I can see here that my excavation
for foundation and services,
again due to finish today, is only at 65%.
What that allows me to do is look at the related
tasks, so the task of laying my foundations.
If I wanted to change the date here to maybe next Wednesday,
that will automatically reflect a change to my starting date
and my finishing date, and maybe I've
also realised that I've forgotten the task here
for laying in the services.
So if I insert a new task, say
laying of services, which also will take five days,
also now need to start on Wednesday, the 30th.
So I can see here that we've added
the task duration of five days.
And the new dates as well.
And the laying of my foundations is also here.
I can push those changes or upload those changes.
And I have a brief description of what they are
and I apply those to my project.
I now have the notification that that is completed.
So if I come back to my project programme
and do a simple refresh, I can see that I now have my new
task for laying in of services
due to start on Wednesday, the 30th and the fact
that I've updated my task of laying in the foundations,
also now due to start on the 30th.
And similarly if I come back to my mobile application
and do a refresh here as well,
I can now see we have a new task for laying
in of services and the updated task for laying foundations.
So hopefully this video was useful to show
you a how easy it is to update progress from site to office.
And then how using our new Microsoft Project plug-in,
we can then update the programme accordingly.
And push that back directly into the hands
of the workers on site.