Smart Construction Office v.20 Release

Release Version: 20.00.047787

New features in this version of Smart Construction Office are as follows:

• Enhanced Budgeting:
  • Intelligent Budget Control
    
    Tools that highlight any needed changes in the budget and allow you to address them, keeping your project finances on track.
    
    • Identifies risks to project budgets (shifting prices, unbudgeted hours added to the project plan, etc.) and provides suggestions on how to resolve them.
    • Allows visibility into over-allocated tasks and provides intelligent recommendations for increasing quantities or unit costs.
    • Provides an approval process to address budget items that may need to be added after the top-level budget has been defined.
  • Task-level budgets may now be rolled up to consolidate line items per resource or cost code
  • A Task Allocation display shows all tasks with associated estimates, top level budgets by resource type and average unit price calculations. Not-allocated tasks with assigned work hours will be flagged in this display.
  • Fields have been added to track allocated quantity, unallocated quantity, allocated cost, and unallocated cost in the project's Power Grid view.
  • New Portfolio Dashboards are available to show total estimates from both task- and top-level budgets, as well as actuals based on work/resources.
    
    
• Risk Register:
  
  The Risk Register allows users to track the status, probability, and impact of risks within projects within a Power Grid format. This means that any time a red flag goes up it can be accounted for here for proper assessment and monitoring—thereby increasing the likelihood of risk remediation.
  • Available as a panel in dashboards at the project and project portfolio levels.
  • Visibility can be set on risks so that they are seen by project owners + team leaders, internal team members only, or by all team members.
  • Chat channels allow for risk discussion.
  • Priority scores related to the risk are automatically calculated using the probability and impact values.
    
    
• Drag and Drop to Edit Dates in Timeline View
  From any project’s Timeline (Gantt) view, drag and drop functionality has been added to allow full phases and individual tasks to be extended or shortened by dragging to increase or decrease length as needed.
  
  
  
• Improved Chat UX/UI
  
  • Ease of use for Office's chat functionality has been improved via enhancements to the design layout.