Time Saver Technologies llc Solving Tomorrows Problems Today

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What kind of planning tools do you currently use
to accomplish your projects planned completion
date?
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Current Scheduling Procedures

• Project Manager produces computerized project
  schedule.

• Project Superintendent produces 2-week schedule
  manually.

• Project Schedule is updated Monthly.

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What are some of the challenges in your current
scheduling program?

• Lack of sufficient manpower to accomplish the
  tasks as scheduled.

• Lack of sufficient material to accomplish the
  tasks as scheduled.

• Timely approval of Proposal Request.

• Timely answer to Request For Information.

• Inaccurate coordination in schedule.

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• Time Saver Technologies llc Schedule
  Management Program will help you gain control of
  the issues that extend your projects completion
  dates, by implementing work processes that prompt
  you to plan for tomorrows problems today.

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The four basic work processes that control your
projects completion date?

• Identify a game plan.

• Communicate the game plan.

• Receive commitment to accomplish the game plan.

• Evaluate progress on the game plan.

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• Time Savers Schedule Management Program will
  advance your current scheduling procedures to
  where you know each day that all of your projects
  have accomplished the tasks necessary to keep
  them on schedule.

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Schedule Management Software Overview

• Provides planning tools to accomplish the
  projects planned completion date.

• Helps Identify and Communicate game plans, and
  get Commitments from all team members.

• Prompts Superintendents to get commitments by
  asking What is keeping you from accomplishing
  these tasks?.

• Prompts subcontractors to plan ahead and resolve
  problems.

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Project Assistant Schedule Management Software

• Project Schedule
• Weekly Schedule
• Daily Schedule

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Project Assistant Schedule Management Software

• Project Schedule

• Manual scheduling with a pencil and paper.

• Basic Computerized scheduling.

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Basic Computerized Scheduling

• Coordinates tasks through task relationships, or
  predecessors and successors.

• Automatically recalculates the entire schedule by
  updating current tasks.

• Manages the projects completion date.

• Identifies the critical path of the project.

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Project Assistant Schedule Management Software

• Project Schedule

• Manual scheduling with a pencil and paper.

• Basic Computerized scheduling.

• Use a detailed template schedule to reduce time
  to produce a project schedule.

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Detailed Template Schedule

• Template Schedule saves time creating your
  original project schedule.

• Includes specific coordination of the projects
  complex details.

• Includes quality coordination so that tasks are
  completed in an efficient manner.

• Is easy to update using views.

• Communicates an accurate overall game plan.

• Is a free download from our web site.

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Project Assistant Schedule Management Software

• Project Schedule

• Manual scheduling with a pencil and paper.

• Basic Computerized scheduling.

• Use a detailed template schedule to reduce time
  to produce a project schedule.

• Involve the Superintendent in building the
  schedule.

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Superintendent is involved in the planning and
scheduling process by

• Doing a detailed plan review to build the
  project schedule.

• Using computerized scheduling to coordinate the
  details of the project.

• Producing a two week schedule.

• Updating the schedule weekly.

• Being responsible for controlling all the issues
  that delay the project schedules completion date.

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Types of Superintendents

• Those that plan and have control of the work
  going on around them.

• Those that react to the work that is going on
  around them.

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Project Assistant Schedule Management Software

• Project Schedule

• Manual scheduling with a pencil and paper.

• Basic Computerized scheduling.

• Use a detailed template schedule to reduce time
  to produce a project schedule.

• Involve the Superintendent in building the
  schedule.

• Spend time to build a detailed accurate schedule
  with specific calculated tasks by doing a
  detailed plan review.

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Detailed Accurate Project Schedule

• Breaking project down into specific tasks builds
  an accurate project schedule.

• If two different subcontractors should perform a
  task, then that task should be broken up into two
  separate tasks to help accurately coordinate each
  subcontractor.

• If a task is coordinated with only a portion of
  another task, then that task should be broken up
  into two separate tasks to help with accurate
  task coordination.

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Trades associated with parapet drawing

• Structural Steel

• Drywall

• Rough Carpentry

• Waterproofing/Damproofing

• Roofing

• Masonry

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Tasks associated with parapet drawing
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Project Assistant Schedule Management Software

• Project Schedule

• Manual scheduling with a pencil and paper.

• Basic Computerized scheduling.

• Use a detailed template schedule to reduce time
  to produce a project schedule.

• Involve the Superintendent in building the
  schedule.

• Spend time to build a detailed accurate schedule
  with specific calculated tasks by doing a
  detailed plan review.

• Identify an accurate critical path.

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Accurate Critical Path

• The computerized schedule will calculate the
  critical path.

• The Superintendent should agree with the logic in
  the critical path.

• This will help build a Schedule the
  superintendent can build the project by.

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Project Assistant Schedule Management Software

• Project Schedule

• Manual scheduling with a pencil and paper.

• Basic Computerized scheduling.

• Use a detailed template schedule to reduce time
  to produce a project schedule.

• Involve the Superintendent in building the
  schedule.

• Spend time to build a detailed accurate schedule
  with specific calculated tasks by doing a
  detailed plan review.

• Identify an accurate critical path.

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Project Assistant Schedule Management Software

• Project Schedule demonstration

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Project Assistant Schedule Management Software

• Project Schedule
• Weekly Schedule

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Weekly Schedule

• Identifies a 2-week schedule from the detailed
  Project Schedule.

• Prioritizes the 2-week critical tasks.

• Communicates the weekly game plan.

• Compares the planned project completion date
  against the current project completion date.

• Promotes a team atmosphere.

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Weekly Schedule

• Is used as an Agenda for weekly meetings with
  Owners, Architects, Consultants, and
  Subcontractors.

• Automatically calculates a submittal schedule.

• Includes a Request For Information log.

• Includes a Proposal Request log.

• Includes a Submittal log.

• Prints a Request For Information from the Request
  For Information log.

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Weekly Routine

• Update schedule Identify an accurate 2 week
  critical path.

• Identify an accurate 2 week schedule.

• Communicate and receive a commitment to
  accomplish the 2 week schedule from foreman.

• Hold weekly job site meeting with subcontractors.

• Hold weekly meeting with owner and architect.

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Weekly Schedule Demonstration
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Project Assistant Schedule Management Software

• Project Schedule
• Weekly Schedule
• Daily Schedule

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• What kind of planning tools do your Project
  Superintendents use to accomplish the projects
  daily activities?

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Daily Schedule

• Prompts Project Superintendents to plan for
  tomorrows problems today.

• Prioritizes the daily critical path.

• Prompts communication between Project
  Superintendents and all of the project team
  members.

• Uses a Pocket Pc to plan for and gain control of
  the projects daily activities.

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Daily Schedule

• Prompts Project Superintendents to take action on
  outstanding issues and tasks.

• Prompts the Subcontractors to plan ahead and
  resolve problems by communicating game plans and
  getting commitments.

• Updates the project schedule by updating actual
  start dates and remaining durations of daily
  tasks.

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Pocket Pc Daily Schedule
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Daily Schedule

• Daily Routine

• Identify game plan

• Communicate game plan

• Receive commitment to accomplish game plan

• Evaluate game plan

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145 Critical Commitment PM
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200 Commitment PM
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230 Commitment PM
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245 Contacted PM
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300 2 Week Critical Commitment
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715 Employees
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730 Commitment AM
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745 Subcontractor Excuses
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800 Commitment
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815 Contacted
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830 Employees
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100 Remaining Duration Critical
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115 Remaining Duration
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130 Menus
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130 Daily Report Menu
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115 Remaining Duration
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Daily Schedules Daily Report

• Logs commitments by subcontractors to accomplish
  the projects daily tasks.

• Logs of employees working on the daily tasks.

• Logs the subcontractors contacted each day.

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Daily Schedules Daily Report

• Logs project name weather comments visitors, and
  inspections.

• Calculates a daily score of the Project
  Superintendents daily activities.

• Can be sent in an electronic format to the main
  office.

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Daily Schedules Daily Report

• Daily Schedule Daily Report demo.

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• Time Saver Technologies llc Schedule Management
  Program can guide you in implementing procedures
  that improve work processes that will help you
  become a more organized, efficient and productive
  Construction Company.

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