Mobile App Tasks - Internal & Contractor Management
Dave Robertson
Bring Task management directly to the FlipperForce Field mobile app, offering distinct capabilities for managing both your internal team tasks and contractor work on-site.
What It Is:
This idea introduces a comprehensive task management system within the FlipperForce Field app, divided into two primary categories:
- Internal Tasks: For managing all the miscellaneous to-dos that you and your internal team need to handle for a project.
- Contractor Tasks: Specifically designed to manage, track, and hold contractors accountable for their Scope of Work (SOW) and on-site duties.
How It Could Work (Basic Functionality):
Users would be able to:
- Create and Assign Tasks: Easily create new tasks and assign them to either internal team members or specific contractors.
- Track Progress: Monitor the status of all tasks, from creation to completion.
- Attach Photos to Contractor Tasks: Crucially, for contractor tasks, you'd be able to upload photos. This is vital for punchlist items, verifying work, and ensuring tasks were completed according to the SOW or contract.
Potential Benefits:
- Enhanced Contractor Accountability: Clearly define, assign, and track contractor tasks, ensuring work is performed to your SOW and contract specifications. The ability to upload photos directly to tasks provides concrete evidence for punchlist items and completed work.
- Streamlined Project Execution: Keep all miscellaneous internal to-dos organized and ensure they get done, preventing forgotten steps.
- Improved Oversight: Gain real-time visibility into what work is pending and what's completed, both by your team and your contractors.
- Reduced Delays: Proactively identify bottlenecks or incomplete work by easily tracking all active tasks.
- Centralized Task Management: Consolidate all project-related tasks within FlipperForce, moving away from fragmented checklists or informal communications.
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Oluwafemi Kolawole
Would the contractor task be the task from the schedule or is this going to be the Task from the task manager and we have to create new one's there
Dave Robertson
Oluwafemi Kolawole Hi Oluwafemi,
Yes, we are considering revamping the Scheduler and considering changing the name to "Contractor Tasks".
Contractor Tasks would be the specific SOW tasks that the Contractor is responsible for completing.
The Scheduler would be revamped to have more views instead of just the Gantt Chart, it could have a more detailed list view that has more options for adding priorities, notes and commenting similar to the current Task Manager.
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Oluwafemi Kolawole
Dave Robertson, that is awesome. I believe the contractor task is befitting or a Contractor work orders.
If the Schedule can have other views, like a Kanban or pipeline view so that we can track the status of the different tasks along with notes, images or videos, priority etc, instead of just complete or incomplete Status.
Some status examples off the top of my head: New\ on hold, Bidding, Not started, In progress, awaiting payment or add to draw, needs Review or Pre draw inspection, Completed.
Side note for the web App:
Also, it would be nice if the items from the estimate could be pushed here instead of having to use a generic schedule template. It's like I've done the work already in the project estimator with the inspection, the price, the SOW the Bids etc if I can just push that to my schedule or create work orders from that estimate that would save a lot of time. Further task can now be added in the scheduler.
Then the contractors can view the work orders or the Scope items from their phone field app.
Dave Robertson
Oluwafemi Kolawole Yes, the goal will be to have more connectivity from the intial Scope creation with the Estimator to actual Scope tracking.
Right now, our Estimator is great for creating the initial scope/budget, but there is a bit of a disconnect between scope creation and scope tracking.
With the Contractor Tasks feature, you would be able to take you intial Scope and convert them to actionable tasks to track progress and make sure your contractor is completing the scope items.