Costing
- With basic project information such as design scope, built up area, number of rooms, quality & priority of rooms and start dates you can generate a project design fee with ease.
- BM’s imbedded design templates produce the overall required efforts to complete the design job, broken down into stages or deliverables.
- The costing tool produces a full project programme and payment schedule in detail with all invoice payments highlighted.
Planning
- A plan is never static and goes through many iterations within its life span. The strength of any plan depends on whether it maintains its integrity in spite of constant adaptations. With BM, setting up any new plan is an automated process while adjusting existing plans is extremely simple.
- Plan and select your ideal team using BM’s team heat map tool, a consolidated company calendar. The tool identifies real-time the availability of each designer over the upcoming week, month or beyond.
- Drag and drop deliverables to the selected design team membersas per their expertise and skillsets.
- Customize tasks through editing descriptions or adjusting the time allocation necessary to complete them. This allows for tremendous flexibility in accommodating different clients, project typologies or design team’s abilities.
- Planning doesn’t have to be limited to one project, BM allows for the integration of all project calendars as well as the team’s personal calendars into a single master schedule. This consolidated information will allow for easy project delivery and design team management.
Tracking
- The tracking tool includes two main functions, monitoring project deliverables progress and time tracking per deliverable.
- The time tracking component highlights any deviances from the planning stage and provides immediate decision support information to the user.
- Through the BM tracking tool, managing the delivery of any project becomes simpler and allows for greater flexibility whenever the job requires any reshuffling of timelines or team resources.
- At the level of the individual user, each design team member can monitor their delivery and deadlines through their personal calendar and with a simple click of a button notify their team leaders of their achievements for a specific task or for certain time duration.
Reporting
- Upstream and downstream communication is crucial for any business; more so for the design industry, where unaddressed resource burn can quickly reduce profitability. Being able to foresee such idle resources or predict upcoming staff bottlenecks is a primary benefit of BM.
- Viewing any project as a whole and experiencing how it unfolds is no longer a surprise to those involved. Realtime status of deliverables and their respective deadline dates cannot be misunderstood, with any potential red flags objectively reported.
- Transparent profitability on a project or operational level is immediate and is reconciled at the end of each business day. This ability gives owners and operational leaders a clear picture of the project or the company in the “Here and Now” and not at the end of any design process. Surprises and losses can totally be avoided. No more inaccurate company performance projections.
- With BM’s key performance dashboard, owners or executives can analyse their company’s individual project performance and take steps to further optimise their own design delivery approach and profitability. This optimisation can be introduced into BM’s templates as the new standard for any ensuing design delivery.