Opiniones de Touchplan

Right now, since its new to me, I'm really enjoying the swim lanes feature. It's allowing for very quick and easy organizing of tasks for the different field crews that work out of the same plan. Before swim lanes we had to try and organize ourselves but once a plan had to be modified and moved around it became very unorganized very quick. With the swim lanes it has helped maintain an organized plan.

Time. I want to be able to refine my task down to the hour. It wouldn't be used super often but there are plenty of tasks that only take a half day but the smallest time frame I can place on it is 1 whole day.

This software is very easy to use and understand. It helps everyone get a visual of what's going on with the project in the way that is very effective.

There are limits of functions for this software. Usually the customer support staff is very helpful with trying to come up with a solution however I find that some issues that come up can't be fixed. (You can only assign constraints to project members ) this makes it challenging to assign issues to trade or consultants because you need to give them access to the project which isn't practical.

Organizes activities well. It has a fluid way of sorting out tasks and presenting the tasks to subcontractors.

Time consuming, not worth it. Felt the subcontractors would not buy into it because it was too time consuming.

Its intuitive, collaborative and provides us with a accurate project planning. It has saved our project teams time savings from our old planning method.

I would like there to be an app so that we can make field edits without a internet connection. Many times we don't have a connection or may not have the bandwidth to run the application.

It's extremely user friendly, yet effective in getting results. It is very simple to bring in a group of people, teach them the process, and begin implementing within 15 minutes of learning the new software.

There is no app to accompany the website. Touchplan could be much more effective if subs could just pull up an app and update their tickets right then and there rather than having to come in, connect to wifi, getting on the website, and then updating.

Works in real time, so that all users in the tool can see the changes instantly on swimlanes. Easy to move items around and edit.

I would to be able to use without an interconnection. Tasks cannot be defined down to the hour, that would be really helpful. We use D for day and N for night but it is not specific enough.

easy to use for us as the General contractor and our subs

At first i wasn't sure about the software but as i used it more it became easy

I like how everyone has their own designation. I like that you can note problems along with solutions to keep the subs honest. I like that there are not a bunch of sticky notes everywhere. I like that I could see it from my tablet, phone and computer and I do not need to be in the conference room to look at things.

It is frustrating to get new users or the not computer friendly sub-contractors to use the product. They are stuck in the Stone Age and some do to embrace having a smartphone let alone using a tablet at work.

The transparency of the schedule. Everyone who views the ticket interface can understand what they're looking at opposed to a P6. It also creates subcontractor input, collaboration and accountability.

Tracks tasks with ease
Lots of options and tools to view progress
Easy to share with other project members

Can get confusing when looking at the report generated data

Very easy to use and helps people unfamiliar with scheduling to have input.

No way to easily backup if you make a mistake. Would be nice to have a back-up botton.

The software is very easy to learn/ understand.
Great tool to use for progress tracking, scheduling, and commitments from Subcontractors on a daily/weekly basis.
Increases communication between Contracting team and Subcontractors.

Would like to see some type of column that allows us to track "Actual Start" on the Gantt Chart, similar to the "Actual Finish" feature.

The simplicity and ease of use made it very enjoyable to use.

Sometimes you can accidentally move items from their intended date when trying to move through the software.

how easy it is to create and edit plan while pulling a report.

Moving activities around can be troublesome especially moving more than one acitivity

Easy to use once I understood how it worked.
I liked the way the days could be extended for more than a single day of planning.
We used different colors representing the individual trades involved and some used icons that were provided.

I thought it was difficult to plan for long periods of time, although maybe that wasn't explained to me,

I like the easy functionality of the software. I love the ease of reporting.

It's hard to flip between swim lanes and project all the work

It is online so accessible almost anywhere.
Only one price per project so people aren’t against it strictly for monetary reasons.
The available reports.

Can’t tie tickets together ( I know you can link the, but it doesn’t push successor so it makes linking easily overlooked)
Doesn’t say when ticket was put up or moved
Don’t have ability to track users log in unless you contact Touchplan.

Easy to use. Touchplan reps have also come out to visit our job site to help us with any questions and get us started.

Not completely adjustable to meet project needs.

Collaboration. Various roles own what they input and manage. Single source for everyone to use and coordinate with.

would like some higher level reporting capabilities. And would like to be able to add in linkages that would allow for "critical path" reporting....and give feedback if critical path is impacted. NOT actually changing things, but reporting.

Using Touchplan allows for meetings to be streamlined. Subcontractors spend less time preparing for meeting and more time paying attention within meeting as the schedule is somewhat set ahead of time.

It would be nice to have a feature that connected subcontractors directly to the days they are scheduled to be on-site. For example, if a subcontractor is scheduled to be on site on monday morning, their contact info and cell phone number would be connected to their contact info in TouchPlan so they would receive a text reminder asking them to confirm they will be on-site on monday, as the schedule depicts. This would further keep subs accountable for when they are on the schedule and to show up on-site.

The fact that it can be edited live. We have meetings with all the foreman and are able to edit the documents live instead of watching one person do all the work.

That tasks do not move out automatically. If a task is pushed out everything that is linked to that task should also move it. It leaves gaps of human error to forgot to move tasks.

I happens in real time. The colors of the cards make it easy to know who has promised what with out asking who it is. The fact you can see other subs (6) week look ahead is very helpful.

Not sure if I'm a fan that it keeps stats on my promises. I don't like that someone can freeze it to lock me out.

Multiple user can be viewing and moving tickets at the same time. I like how visual the plan is once the plan is developed in the software and it is very easy to use.

Duration of the tickets can't be adjusted to different time codes. I would like to be able to put them in hours vs. days.

It's much better than putting stickies on a board. Color-coded stickies and the tracking of them make it very simple to use.

The software can sometimes be a little hard to open on my iPad but with a couple of tries it opens right up and I'm off on making more stickies.

Touchplan is great for pull plans in the construction industry

Could be improved for compatibility using on other devices.