What do your guys’ survey firms use to manage your entire job/project management nowadays.
Are you still using a mix of spreadsheets, whiteboards, shared drives, QuickBooks, email, paper print outs, etc.? If so why? Are there actual tools people like using?
I’ve talked to a few companies and it seems like a lot of companies have their own system patched together over the years through various softwares. Some of them seem to work surprisingly well for them while a lot of others just sound like complete chaos.
Main things I’m curious about are scheduling crews, job database, keeping track of job status and work that needs to be done, organizing plats/deeds/files, and communication between the office and field.
What’s worked well for you guys and what’s been painful?
I know a lot of the bigger firms are going to use more dedicated softwares for this, but I’m also wondering why smaller firms often are reluctant to try newer systems.
Seems like the big companies such as Trimble and Carlson tend to stay out of the project management side of things or only add a tiny bit of it.