Looking for Software/Strategies for Management of External Development Teams
Interested in how people working in development roles coordinate the work of all of your consultants. Architects, civil engineers, traffic consultants, permit expeditors, etc. You want every consultant to have the latest version of every plan, study, etc. and ideally every consultant should be mostly aware of what the others are doing
The path of least resistance is to have a million different email chains with attached documents, but clearly there are better ways to organize things.
I'm thinking of something along the lines of Procore, but for the design/permitting phase of the project. And, ideally, simpler and cheaper. What do you all use?
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I think a DMS (document management software) might get you what you need. We have several members that live abroad and yeah, there was a lot of email back-and-forth in the past, as you describe it. But it got a bit tough to follow, and sometimes we lost track of which document was the newest one or whether there are other edits made in the meantime. So, I totally get your struggles :) Things are going a lot smoother since we switched to a DMS app - it functions like a shared online filing cabinet that automatically finds a place for new docs/PDFs, it has version tracking, OCR searching (being able to comb even through PDFs by keywords is amazing!), Cloud sharing, it provides file editing tools, etc.
So, take a look at the few popular software choices, I think they're all easy to learn/implement (I'm using FileCenter at the moment, it comes with a free trial as well)
Yeah, DMS tools are great for keeping everyone on the same page, and you can tie everything together with apps like Zapier, Unito, etc. So, there are plenty of creative ways to use and abuse G Drive these days :)
Oh right, I forgot to mention such automation tools - very helpful in reducing the potential for human error (though nothing can quite combat the levels of human stupidity and laziness, they're infinite in both theory and practice)
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