This YouTube demo (by William Doyle MRICS) presents Shift Planner, a web app designed to simplify project shift planning and team collaboration. It contrasts the current pain of Excel-based planning and chasing staff with the app’s features: plan a week of shifts in about 10 minutes, copy-and-paste data entry, pre-populated shift records, real-time team visibility, and automatic worker notifications. The claimed benefits are reduced manual data entry, faster planning, more consistent/higher-quality site data, and clearer project-wide visibility.
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Having to plan shifts in advance for a project can be really overwhelming and having to juggle Excel spreadsheets and chase people down for information doesn't make it any easier. However, not having a clear project plan poses a real operational threat to projects due to issues such as planning conflicts or resource issues arising. Shift Planner makes it easy to get your project plans under control and allows you to plan a week of shifts in just 10 minutes. Use the web app to quickly plan detailed works information as well as links, labour plant material and resource in advance. Use the handy copy and paste button to save time and cut down the time usually spent on manual data entry. All planned shift information, including work of the teague, exceedances and resource is made visible to your team in real time, allowing for a much more collaborative planning process. When you submit your plan, workers will immediately be notified by an automatic notification straight to their devices. They will then be directed to a shift record which which is automatically being pre populated with the plan shift information, meaning that your team only need to actualize what occurs on site. Not only does this save your team time inputting data on site, but also massively boosts the quality and consistency of your data, giving your whole team a better picture of your project.
