Nialli - Visual Planner Overview
About Nialli Visual Planner
Nialli Visual Planner makes it easy to get started. You can create plans, add your working days and holidays to the calendar and include reasons for variance. Then just add the number of lanes you need for the project. If things change, it’s easy to add, edit or rearrange lanes anytime you need.
This means everyone concerned with the project can be kept in the know from executives to managers to tradespeople. Whether you’re at the jobsite or head office, the details you need are always a click away. This breaks away from the tie of using a fixed project board in one meeting room.
Nialli Visual Planner is designed to get everyone talking with digital tools that make discussion and decision-making at the jobsite easier – plus allow workers and stakeholders to access plans anytime and anywhere.
The benefit of this increased discussion and flexibility to access plans means lost productivity can be avoided adding key digital efficiencies.
Set up your plans
Nialli Visual Planner makes it easy to get started. You can create plans, add your working days and holidays to the calendar and include reasons for variance. Then just add the number of lanes you need for the project. If things change, it’s easy to add, edit or rearrange lanes anytime you need.
Use the parking lot
Don’t waste your planning sessions waiting on tasks to be written down. Nialli Visual Planner lets anyone create activity cards from a laptop, tablet or phone, at any time. You can add all the details you need, like trade or crew size. All cards get added to an accessible parking lot at the bottom of the screen.
Move cards
Once a planning session begins, anyone can drag activities from the parking lot into the correct lane and day. With a two-finger gesture, move all cards associated with an activity at once. They’ll automatically fill in the lane, skipping the tedious job of moving cards individually.
Change status
Keeping Nialli Visual Planner up to date is easy. When a task is complete, the trade foreman just twists the card to the right – a diagonal line will appear. When the supervisor confirms the task is done, one more twist creates an X to close it off. Task incomplete? Just twist to the left instead.
Show dependencies
Don’t be caught off guard by mounting delays caused by unknown dependencies. Cards that are part of the same activity are automatically connected with green lines. You can also set dependencies between independent tasks and across lanes. When anything’s at risk, lines turn red so you can spot them right away.
Plan ahead
Phase pull planning with Nialli Visual Planner lets you take milestones from your master schedule and plan 3–5 months in advance. You’ll be able to figure out the scope, sequence and duration of project activities and then easily translate that to your look ahead and weekly plans.
Generate reports
It’s easy to get data on the progress of your project, helping workers, supervisors and stakeholders see trends over time and achieve continuous improvement. Reports that can be generated include PPC (percent plan complete) and reasons for variance.
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