Scheduling is one of the most requested improvements we hear from customers, and it's the centerpiece of our next release, currently planned for November. Here's a first look at what's coming.
A schedule that updates itself from the field
Most construction schedules go stale the day crews mobilize. The real plan lives in P6, MS Project, or a spreadsheet, someone updates it by hand, and finished work quietly overwrites the plan, so everything looks on time until the end date slips. Vitruvi Scheduling keeps the plan, the forecast, and what actually happened side by side, and the production reports your crews already submit keep it current.
Three dates. One honest schedule.
- Planned. Your baseline. It never moves on its own, so there is always something to measure slip against.
- Forecast. Where you will actually land. Calculated by Vitruvi from real progress and updated as work is reported.
- Actual. What really happened, captured automatically from production reporting and work item completion.
How it works
- Generate. Build planned dates for every work order and work item from your work package templates, anchored to a start date or a required finish.
- Report. Crews submit production exactly as they do today. The first submission sets the actual start, and completing the work item sets the actual end.
- Steer. Remaining work re-queues at the crew's pace, the forecast moves, and slip shows up when it happens, not at closeout.
What's included
- Automatic actuals. No double entry. The same production data that drives billing now drives the schedule.
- A forecast that moves. Late work pushes what follows, with start and finish slip shown on every work order.
- One-click generation. Generate from template data. Regenerating updates unstarted work and leaves the baseline of started work alone.
- Velocity-based planning. Plan from real production rates, like feet per day per crew, instead of splitting a template duration evenly.
- Critical path. See which work orders drive your end date. It handles all four dependency types, with lag.
- Linked work orders and items. Move a work order and its work items follow. Change the work, and the work order adjusts.
Built for the whole project team
- Project managers. One schedule, in the system where the work happens.
- Operations leaders. Honest on-time reporting against a real baseline.
- Field teams. Nothing new to do. The reports they already submit keep it current.
Get ready for the release
Talk to your Customer Success Manager to enable Scheduling for your account once it is released.