Planning the projects is the key to practice profitability. It gives project management the opportunity to intervene and take action when necessary.
AutoPilot gathers all information from all employees, including project leaders and administrators. This means that the planning interface is up-to-date with all expenditure and all plans, from all projects. So when you, as the project leader, use the planning interface, all data is current, up-to-date and reliable.
The planning interface is updated in real-time and is completely integrated with the other aspects of AutoPilot. In the example below, planning is carried out on employee level. When you enter hours on a level, the project economy will automatically show the current ETC, according to the new plan you are carrying out. If you exceed the allocated fee, an early warning will automatically occur, indicating that you are planning more work, than you have fee available. And this is what gives you the ability to take action in time.
AutoPilot lets you plan the projects on different levels, depending on the size and extent of the project. Projects are not necessarily a linear process, so we advice that planning is an ongoing aspect of the project. Start with a broad plan, and as the process progresses, you can detail and adjust the plan to fit the particular needs. However – you are in the drivers seat, so you decide how detailed you want the planning to be.
AutoPilot is fully equipped to work with the RIBA stage framework, that you are used to. This lets you distribute the fee and plan your project on RIBA stages, so you get early warnings stagewise.
Budget employees lets you plan hours, when you don’t know which specific employee should carry out the work. This could be when doing quotes or when planning projects far in the future. This feature lets you progress with the planning, without doing unecessary work. Once you know which employee should carry out the work, you can easily move the hours from the budget employee, to the specific one.
If you know precisely when n hours will be spent, you can plan the hours on specific months or weeks. If you don’t know the precise month or week, you can plan a general timeframe, and then, once known, you can move the plan to fit the timeframe.
Planning in AutoPilot is carried out on the basis of individual employee cost prices. This makes the prognosis for the final project economy reliable and precise.
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