Actualize the Full Potential of Your Project Schedule
Schedulers, project engineers, and portfolio managers love PlanGo, a productivity suite purpose-built to help construction teams plan, execute, document progress and problems, and meet the reporting obligations of large construction projects.
Post your P6 or MS Project schedule to PlanGo, or create a schedule entirely within PlanGo, and give your team the keys to a toolbox designed to turn your project schedule into weekly lookaheads, daily reports, and monthly narrative reports — in minutes, not hours — all tied to your official schedule. At the end of the month, export changes from PlanGo to your CPM scheduling app, update the schedule, and re-import to PlanGo. Ready for a new monthly cycle.
Our native iOS and Android mini-apps enable you to document progress and problems from your smart phone; and our AI-powered NarrAItor ™ summarizes schedule info (including field notes) into everything from activity-level ad hoc memos to project-level monthly narrative reports.
Enterprise customers love PlanGo's organization-level dashboards and tools that track project status, forecast resource loading, and track finances. Efficient claims discovery, standardized work products, and preservation of the history of the project are additional organizational benefits.
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Streamline Your Team Workflow
Post your updated CPM schedule to PlanGo, run our schedule quality checks, and your team is ready to assign activities, visualize program-level status, generate lookaheads, adjust dates and % complete in real time, and generate narrative text with the help of AI, … all without any copying and pasting.
Connect Your LookAheads to Your CPM Schedule
PlanGo bridges the gaps between your project CPM schedule and your short-term planning needs. Add as much granularity as you need to your CPM schedule with PlanGo subactivities and keep every task on the job site tied to your CPM schedule, without changing the official schedule.
Connect The Project Schedule To Your Daily Journal
PlanGo’s Journal mode enables you to document progress and problems at the project and activity levels, all tied to your CPM schedule. Our native iOS and Android mobile apps mesh seamlessly with Journal Mode to provide a platform for adding field notes and photos to your daily report from your smart phone.
Native iOS and Android Mini-Apps for Field Users
Our native iOS and Android field apps are stripped down to support daily progress and problem documentation from your smart phone, with that information available to all other modes of PlanGo. For many team members, the mobile apps will be all they need, while you benefit from getting their field information directly from PlanGo — no emails or texts necessary, just log into PlanGo and go to work.
NarrAItor Generates Narrative Reports in Minutes, not Hours
NarrAItor compiles project information at any level from a single activity to a month’s worth of progress and problems for the entire project. The Assembling the core data and writing the first draft of the industry-standard monthly narrative report is accomplished in minutes, not hours.
Enterprise Tools For Multi-Project Managers
Enterprise customers can group projects by program or portfolio (however you like) and generate portfolio-level dashboards that show at a glance the status of multiple projects. Budget and Cost tools help track finances over an entire portfolio, and resource load forecasting tools help you allocate resources among projects most effectively. Enterprise customers can create an unlimited number of “place holder” projects to project as far into the future as you need to. One customer is using PlanGo to plan for 450+ projects 10 years into the future!
Project Pain Points and PlanGo Solutions
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On a typical construction site without PlanGo, critical construction information is siloed in texts, emails, spreadsheets, pdf's, note pads, individual phones and other devices, across multiple software platforms.
With PlanGo, all field information is kept in PlanGo, accessible to all team members at all times.
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On a typical construction site without PlanGo, lookaheads often do not refer to official schedule activities.
With PlanGo’s, Lookaheads are built from the schedule, with PlanGo subactivities adding the detail needed for effective short-term planning. Subactivities are grouped with schedule actiivities, but do not become part of the official CPM schedule. Build your schedule with the right granularity for the CPM schedule, and build your LookAheads with the right granularity for in-field work.
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Updating the schedule is frequently a task involving chasing down team members via phone, email, or text, and assembling the information that may come in any number of formats.
With PlanGo, inspectors, foremen, and supervisors can update the schedule daily. When it’s time to create a new CPM schedule update, just export the month’s changes to P6 import format, review the changes, and import them to P6.
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Without PlanGo, weekly and monthly reporting is a significant time-consuming task of assembling information from diverse sources in diverse formats, often requiring copying and pasting or re-entering the information, wasting time and risking error. And very often, field documentation of critical problems is not available to the person writing the report at the time of writing.
PlanGo’s NarrAItor ™ compiles project data and field notes into tables and narrative text summaries in MS Word format, eliminating hours of cut and paste, creating the first draft of your reports in minutes, not hours. The more you and your team use PlanGo, the better NarrAItor ™ can reduce your reporting obligations.
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All of the above issues are compounded in CIP programs or large construction firms where multiple projects are in progress simultaneously.
PlanGo provides an easy to use platform for keeping everything tied to the schedule, and producing consistent work product outputs.
In addition to schedule data, PlanGo allows you to enter basic budget and cost data, and PlanGo’s program-level reports include simple financial summaries for at-a-glance overview of both the operational and the financial status of entire portfolios.
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The construction industry is facing a crisis brain drain. Senior Superintendents and Project Engineers are retiring much faster than they are being replaced. PlanGo preserves project history in a way that not other tool does, preserving not only the history of the project but the photos and field notes that capture real-time decisions in a form that is much more accessible than any other medium.
Maximize the Value of Your Schedule
The project schedule is the most underutilized resource in the construction industry. A great deal of experience and investment goes into the creation of a schedule, but without a tool like PlanGo, only a fraction of the schedule’s potential value is realized.
What People Are Saying…
“PlanGo’s intuitive interface and powerful features have streamlined how I administer project schedules with my project teams.”
— Dale Fritz, AES Construction Schedule Manager
“ PlanGo has been an invaluable asset in mitigating schedule risk, reporting, and managing our projects seamlessly..”
— Scott Lopian, Eastern Municipal Water District Sr. Construction Administrator
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