Project Management
Construction Project Management: From RFP To Closeout
A properly managed back office is essential for a business to run smoothly, however, this mission critical component of an organization continues to be woefully overlooked by the AEC. From the RFP stage, to the win, to project closeout you need to create and manage content, issue documents and track milestones, is way too often relegated to an Excel spreadsheet.
How We Solve Your Project Management Challenges
Repeatable Standards
Establish consistent baselines for rapid development and deployment of project deliverables.
ProjectReady’s schedule and work breakdown structure (WBS) can be built and edited in your browser or in Microsoft Excel. You have the option of working in a way that makes sense to you. For example, download one project’s WBS and load it into another project or quickly edit two or more schedules and combine them in Excel. These schedules can be easily saved and uploaded to your project templates area in ProjectReady for reuse in a few clicks. Simply select from your desired schedule from your template gallery when you build your project with ProjectReady.
The user-friendliness of ProjectReady stems from our ability to deploy repeatable standards to establish consistent baselines for rapid development of a projects deliverables. By deploying templates that are customized to your needs, you can quickly launch fully executable schedules that not only keep your team moving forward, but can automate the generation of documents and assign tasks that ensure your contractual commitments are always met.
Document Generation
On a click, generate documents, with project information prepopulated and securely stored in the right place, every time.
Documents, their creation, and control are a vital part of every project. ProjectReady systematically automates the generation of vital project documents. Whether you need to build an ad hoc report, or include the generation of documents in your project schedule, ProjectReady delivers accurate, secure documents in seconds.
ProjectReady’s Master Metadata settings, found across our many features, are essential for the population of authoritative information. Furthermore, with appropriate permissions set and a consistent taxonomy within M365, your documents, including your most sensitive content, are stored and secured instantly.
Task Management
Intuitive, straight forward management of tasks and deliverables with baselines ready to go.
The project begins the moment you issue an RFP, you have a vast amount of information to manage and tasks to assign and track. With ProjectReady have those baseline tasks and deliverables ready to go from the start so you can hit the ground running on your project and remove the overhead of doing all that baseline setup.
Deliverable and task management is easy with ProjectReady with everything centrally managed and tracked from your everyday project tasks to workflow statuses and approvals. Use our inituitive reports to manage any bottlenecks and keep your projects running smoothly, on-budget and on-schedule.
- Gain insight from reporting into all project tasks at the project and portfolio level
- Schedule and manage document control tasks
- Easily add/edit and manage tasks and deliverables across projects
- Generate documents on a schedule
- Convert emails you would otherwise forward, into tasks for traceability and as part of the project record
- Simplify and standardize work break down schedules
- Schedule Microsoft Teams meetings and link to a task
Reporting
Comprehensive reporting and search on information across systems, projects and programs.
ProjectReady makes generating accurate reports fast as easy as clicking a button.
At the project level, users can instantly generate project estimates, project status reports, and meeting minutes. In a matter of seconds, accurate and complete reports are generated and ready to be reviewed and shared with internal and external stakeholders.
Those who need to take a deeper dive into the management of the project, can easily access and assess reports to ensure the team is being managed efficiently and that nothing, such as requests for information and change orders, are falling through the cracks. In addition to the report types mentioned above, ProjectReady gives users:
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- Weekly and monthly calendar views to help you manage resources
- Grid views for quick edits and KPIs and the ability to view the project within a Gantt chart for easy visualization
- Document control reports
- Time review reports
- And a vast menu of other customizable reports