How many Excel files does your latest housing development have?

Coming up: one file per housing development
Today

Dozens of files per project.

More explanation

Sales status, buyer options, planning, budget and subcontractors each sit in a separate list.

Plot 7, three files
Sales_v3.xlsxPlot 7: sold
Sold
Planning_FINAL.xlsxPlot 7: still available
Available
Options_plot7_def2.xlsxKitchen: not yet chosen
Open
Which version is right?
The impact

Three versions of the truth.

More explanation

Sales marks a plot as sold, the project manager still sees it as available. Searching costs time, searching in the wrong place costs money.

One file for the whole housing development.
The solution

One file for the whole housing development.

More explanation

Housing development, blocks and plots in one structure. You change it once and everyone sees the same.

Processes and documents in the file.
How it works

Processes and documents in the file.

More explanation

For each process, you see what is in. Permits and plans belong to the housing development, not to someone's folder.

The planning follows the same source.
The result

The planning follows the same source.

More explanation

The works of the housing development in one planning, from the same file.

Everyone works with the same information.

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Background to this storyWhat property developers tell us, and what you see of it in the demo.
"Every project has its own stack of spreadsheets, and nobody knows which version is right."
IRPIn the process
Work step
Sales, planning and follow-up of the housing development
Needed
Status of plots, processes and documents
Supplied by
Sales and project management, in the same file
When
With every change
Next
The planning works from the same source

Housing development, blocks and plots as one file with processes, documents and planning (demo environment).

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