I love them as well, especially something that is live and update-able. Most of the people I've worked with waste a ton of plotter paper printing them out and hanging them on the wall, and are usually outdated before they leave the printer.
On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote: > I am the only one here that loves gantt charts... > > *From:* Brian Kelly > *Sent:* Tuesday, December 20, 2016 10:06 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Scheduling/work flow > > I use asana.com (it has a fairly decent ios app) for scheduling > maintenance and keeping track of larger projects. If you have under 15 > users I believe it is free (we have 12 techs that use it). I also use a > plugin called instagantt.com to keep track of progress, generate gantt > charts for the higher ups. > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Chuck Hogg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It does the PM stuff...it's just a learned method on their system. I'm >> actually very happy with the initials of this product, it texts the >> customers when the installer/tech is on the way, it tells them who to >> expect with a picture. They are able to communicate and see where the tech >> is and how long it will take him to get there... While not a billing >> solution/system at all by any means, it has some nice features. >> >> Regards, >> Chuck >> >> On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 3:44 PM, Simon Westlake <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> No, I dug into a few of the field management products when I built the >>> scheduling system in Sonar, but I haven't seen this one before. Doesn't >>> look like it would do the project management stuff, but it looks pretty >>> good from the website. >>> >>> On 12/15/2016 2:40 PM, Chuck Hogg wrote: >>> >>> Have you looked at HouseCall Pro? We're going to deploy it on our next >>> project. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Chuck >>> >>> On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Simon Westlake <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> The customer can be assigned to tasks, but you have to invite them to >>>> the project. They don't have to 'join' the dapulse team, they just join a >>>> specific project that you have explicitly invited them to. They can provide >>>> most updates via email if you prefer doing it that way, once they are >>>> connected to the project. >>>> >>>> >>>> On 12/14/2016 11:41 AM, Sterling Jacobson wrote: >>>> >>>> I’ve been looking at dapulse and it looks great so that is a good >>>> endorsement. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Some day I’ll have cost justification to move from Plat to Sonar, cause >>>> I really like the look of what you are doing. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> The only thing I see as lacking with dapulse is the ability to cue in >>>> the customer attributed to the task without having them join the system. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> I didn’t list that feature, but ideally it would allow the customer >>>> access to track progress too, and make a new claim for support. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> I had wanted to build my own system/app for this, but why re-invent the >>>> wheel. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> *From:* Af [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Simon Westlake >>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, December 14, 2016 7:58 AM >>>> *To:* [email protected] >>>> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Scheduling/work flow >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> We went through a number of these to use to track Sonar customer >>>> onboarding, and after trying a bunch, the one we settled on is >>>> www.dapulse.com >>>> >>>> I don't know if it'd fit your needs precisely, but it does handle well >>>> setting up projects, assigning responsible parties, and two things that >>>> made it work well for us is that it's simple to create additional columns >>>> you want to track (that can be a date, text field, etc), and custom >>>> statuses for each of those columns, as well as involving outside parties in >>>> individual projects if needed. >>>> >>>> It's reasonably cheap, we've been happy with it so far. >>>> >>>> On 12/14/2016 4:37 AM, Paul Stewart wrote: >>>> >>>> Those are collaboration tools though … slack/teams etc …. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> I really like Atlassian stuff in general (minus the fact that it runs >>>> Tomcat/Java under the hood) …. JIRA Core can do that kind of stuff for >>>> example (workflow automation) >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Dec 14, 2016, at 12:57 AM, Stefan Englhardt mailto:[email protected] >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Microsoft has announced Teams which will be part of office365. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- >>>> >>>> Von: Sean Heskett mailto:[email protected] >>>> >>>> Datum: 14.12.16 06:26 (GMT+01:00) >>>> >>>> An: [email protected] >>>> >>>> Betreff: Re: [AFMUG] Scheduling/work flow >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> Simon Westlake >>>> >>>> Email: [email protected] >>>> >>>> Phone: (702) 447-1247 >>>> >>>> --------------------------- >>>> >>>> Sonar Software Inc >>>> >>>> The future of ISP billing and OSS >>>> >>>> https://sonar.software >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Simon Westlake >>>> Email: [email protected] >>>> Phone: (702) 447-1247 >>>> --------------------------- >>>> Sonar Software Inc >>>> The future of ISP billing and OSShttps://sonar.software >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Simon Westlake >>> Email: [email protected] >>> Phone: (702) 447-1247 >>> --------------------------- >>> Sonar Software Inc >>> The future of ISP billing and OSShttps://sonar.software >>> >>> >> > >
