We're a small office with about 5-10 active projects at a given time. I'm looking for software, standalone or cloud-based that does project management and staffing at a high-level really well. So far we've been using excel and it's fine, but as we keep adding new information excel is getting a little cumbersome.
What I'm looking for the software to be able to do for us is high-level tracking of all current projects - schedule, phases, milestones, important dates, track payments per project, and current and projected staffing per project. These are the basic requirements and anything beyond that is bonus.
oh, i am interested to know how Procore can help out the Project management outside of the Construction Phase. I just had the GC using them a lot during Construction. It has a great dashboard highlighting how many RFIs are overdue in big red bar graphs :)
Jul 14, 22 7:02 pm ·
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BabbleBeautiful
I just had a conversation with them and unfortunately their platform doesn't accommodate for anything before construction phase.
I'm curious as well. I'm a little curious why you feel the need for software to manage 10 or fewer active projects. My office runs about 40-50 and we don't use anything except our brains, meeting minutes, and the typical tools.
Under the hood, we use Core to track hours and phases, but you could certainly do the same level of data on a notepad or Excel sheet
Jul 14, 22 7:23 pm ·
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BabbleBeautiful
Part of the reason is to be able to easily gather historical data and reduce the amount brain power
needed/wasted. Another reason is to have a simple graphic interface that shows it all, allows us to zoom-in and zoom-out with ease, make adjustments without having to touch multiple platforms, etc.
Jul 15, 22 11:58 am ·
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bowling_ball
Whatever floats your boat. I guess I'm saying that I personally don't need a graphic to tell me that we're burning hours, etc. I'm still curious because I'm sure there are some upsides
You can look into https://monday.com/. We are using it to track milestone dates, people assigned, tasks. You make up your own boards and columns. Kind of an advanced excel sheet with teammate notification system and stuff. Not that expensive.
Absolute professional A&E software I have heard of but not used is newforma https://www.newforma.com/.
I am surprised no one has mentioned Monograph: https://monograph.com/ It is made by architects specifically for our profession. Monograph has been adding more features as well over the last year or so.
I have been trying to get our firm to use this for about two years now with no luck. From the demos, though, it seems very intuitive and easy to use.
They have also been doing things over the last year or so to help connect and better the profession like their Section Cut conferences and the interviews/podcasts they do.
One software you might want to try is https://rform.ca. It doesn't address the resource management but it does a great job with Contract administration and is quite inexpensive. Saves a lot of time.
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Hi All,
We're a small office with about 5-10 active projects at a given time. I'm looking for software, standalone or cloud-based that does project management and staffing at a high-level really well. So far we've been using excel and it's fine, but as we keep adding new information excel is getting a little cumbersome.
What I'm looking for the software to be able to do for us is high-level tracking of all current projects - schedule, phases, milestones, important dates, track payments per project, and current and projected staffing per project. These are the basic requirements and anything beyond that is bonus.
Any recommendations appreciated.
Pro core
I just had a conversation with them and unfortunately their platform doesn't accommodate for anything before construction phase.
oh, i am interested to know how Procore can help out the Project management outside of the Construction Phase. I just had the GC using them a lot during Construction. It has a great dashboard highlighting how many RFIs are overdue in big red bar graphs :)
I just had a conversation with them and unfortunately their platform doesn't accommodate for anything before construction phase.
I'm curious as well. I'm a little curious why you feel the need for software to manage 10 or fewer active projects. My office runs about 40-50 and we don't use anything except our brains, meeting minutes, and the typical tools.
Under the hood, we use Core to track hours and phases, but you could certainly do the same level of data on a notepad or Excel sheet
Part of the reason is to be able to easily gather historical data and reduce the amount brain power needed/wasted. Another reason is to have a simple graphic interface that shows it all, allows us to zoom-in and zoom-out with ease, make adjustments without having to touch multiple platforms, etc.
Whatever floats your boat. I guess I'm saying that I personally don't need a graphic to tell me that we're burning hours, etc. I'm still curious because I'm sure there are some upsides
we use ajera for staff scheduling, timesheets, invoicing.
How big is your firm and how many concurrent active projects?
You can look into https://monday.com/. We are using it to track milestone dates, people assigned, tasks. You make up your own boards and columns. Kind of an advanced excel sheet with teammate notification system and stuff. Not that expensive.
Absolute professional A&E software I have heard of but not used is newforma https://www.newforma.com/.
Try https://www.notion.so/
I've been a fan of this one IngeniousIO https://www.ingenious.build/.
I am surprised no one has mentioned Monograph: https://monograph.com/ It is made by architects specifically for our profession. Monograph has been adding more features as well over the last year or so.
I have been trying to get our firm to use this for about two years now with no luck. From the demos, though, it seems very intuitive and easy to use.
They have also been doing things over the last year or so to help connect and better the profession like their Section Cut conferences and the interviews/podcasts they do.
Hi BB,
One software you might want to try is https://rform.ca. It doesn't address the resource management but it does a great job with Contract administration and is quite inexpensive. Saves a lot of time.
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