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Activities

Simplify Gantt charts and efficiently track schedule activities with Mastt, using intuitive visualizations and automated reporting to maintain clear project progress.

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Activities

Simplify Gantt charts and efficiently track schedule activities with Mastt, using intuitive visualizations and automated reporting to maintain clear project progress.

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Activities in Mastt

Mastt empowers users to easily manage, report, and track project activities, phases, and key dates with an intuitive tool that includes built-in data visualizations.

Mastt allows you to:

  • Create Project Schedules: Break down your project into key activities and phases for straightforward progress tracking.
  • Track Key Dates: Maintain baseline, planned, and actual dates for all activities across every phase.
  • Visual Reporting: Clearly communicate progress and activity performance with visual reports and charts.
  • Use Templates: Save best-practice activity and phase templates for consistency across all projects in your program of works.
  • Aggregate Data: Roll up activities across multiple projects to gain a consolidated view of upcoming tasks and proactively manage any scheduling conflicts.

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What is an Activity?

An Activity refers to a specific task or group of tasks that must be completed within a construction project. These activities are part of the overall project schedule and can range from foundational work to more specialized tasks like electrical installations or final inspections. Since activities often have dependencies, where one task must be finished before another can start, tracking each activity is crucial to avoiding delays.

Note: Forecasting activity completion dates typically involves critical path tools like Microsoft Project or Primavera, which feed essential data into Mastt for more accurate schedule tracking.

Challenges Managing Activities

Common challenges when managing activities in construction projects include:

❌ Lack of Standardization: Project Managers and Asset Owners often struggle to identify which activities are most important for decision-making across the program.

❌ Complex Gantt Charts: Decision-makers don’t want to sift through intricate Gantt charts to identify key activities and deadlines.

❌ Inadequate Reporting: Activities are sometimes presented in basic tables without context, making it difficult to understand their impact on the project timeline.

❌ No Correlation to Costs: Activity completion is often linked to expenditures, but these metrics are rarely presented together, making it harder to track budget impacts.

❌ Lack of Program View: Gantt charts are difficult to consolidate across projects, making it challenging to get a clear, program-wide view of upcoming tasks.

Gain clearer insights into your activity schedule management with Mastt's intuitive solution.

Mastt Activity Solutions

💡 Clear Visualizations: Key activity dates, delays, and upcoming tasks are displayed in a simple, visual format for easy understanding.

💡 Interactive Tracking: Monitor and report on activity performance with interactive charts, tables, and other visual tools that provide real-time insights.

💡 Standardized Workflows: Apply standardized activity templates across your projects to ensure consistent, reliable reporting.

💡 Automated Data Aggregation: Aggregate activity data across multiple projects for a comprehensive, program-wide view, simplifying reporting and decision-making.

Better visualize activity schedule data with Mastt's Gantt view.

Mastt Activity Features

Mastt’s activity management tools make it easy to track and manage project schedules:

🔷 Add Activities: Create, forecast, and track start and finish dates, set baselines, and record actual progress for each task.

🔷 Phase Assignment: Link activities to specific phases within the project lifecycle to maintain clarity and keep the schedule on track.

🔷 Activity “Tags”: Use customizable tags to categorize activities, improving organization, filtering, and reporting across projects.

🔷 Delay/Gain Analysis: Track activity delays or gains against baseline schedules to make timely adjustments.

🔷 Start/Finish Progress: Designate start and end activities to automatically generate accurate schedule progress percentages.

🔷 Comments: Add contextual notes to activities for better communication and insights among team members.

🔷 Templates: Save and reuse activity templates to ensure efficiency and consistency across projects.

🔷 Visual Reports: Visualize activity progress across projects and portfolios with customizable charts and downloadable reports.

🔷 Auto Reporting: Automatically generate detailed schedule reports that track activity progress, delays, and key updates for streamlined communication.

Activities Best Practices

For effective activity management, consider these best practices:

🟢 Keep It Simple: Focus on reporting critical activities that are essential for decision-making and progress tracking, reducing information overload.

🟢 Standardize Templates: Use standardized templates for consistent activity management and reporting, which saves time and minimizes errors.

🟢 Use Baselines: Set baseline dates for start and finish to track actual progress against the planned schedule, allowing for adjustments when needed.

Step by Step Guides

For more details on how to use this feature, visit help.mastt.com.

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