This YouTube video (created/uploaded by William Doyle MRICS, Mar 14, 2024) discusses the Gather management tool. Speakers explain Gather’s ability to track performance against forecasts (identifying over- or underspend) and to manage unexpected events by recording stoppage hours, allowing inputted hours to be accepted or rejected, and supporting negotiation and sign-off of compensation events.
And Gather gives us the information about how we're performing against the forecast, whether we're on track with our spend or whether there's issues, we're overspending, we're underspending. It gives us the ability to identify that information and be able to act on it.
The beauty of Gather is that it actually allows you, whilst you can descript and provide the information of what is required for the shift with all projects, there is something that comes up and you can't manage. So we can manage that within Gather, and what that allows our team to do is to actually sign off a record that is accurate. So if someone comes across a piece of hard dig, but we've got to continue, we'll record the hours that it was stopped, inputted hours will be then accepted, rejected, and we'll negotiate and understand what the real reason was. And when the compensation event is then eventually put forward.
