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We’ve just shipped a major update to AutoReport – our tool that allows you to create your regular reports with Generative AI and slash the time you spend reporting by up to 80% 🎉🎉 The killer feature in this new release is, quite simply, pre-built templates which now ship with the product: 👨🎓 We’ve developed these templates using lessons learnt from working with teams managing some of the world’s biggest construction projects 👩💻 The templates are pre-loaded into AutoReport for everyone to copy, or use as a starting point for their reports 🔥 The first two templates now bundled with the product are for a SOFT report and a schedule and risk progress report, with more coming soon! Like its predecessor, the new and improved AutoReport is available on a no-commitment two-week trial basis - sign-up and start using it, today, without waiting to speak to a salesperson: https://lnkd.in/dDKhnyti

Another day, another awesome new feature for Planners and Schedulers, shipped 🚢 ❤️ Introducing: Explain My Forecast. Highlight: - bottlenecks - long lags - long activities - constraints - and calendars with long non-working periods on an automatically generated visualisation of your project plan. Why? To understand how schedule logic is influencing your forecast, communicate those factors to your peers, drive effective action-taking, and avoid end-date blowouts. As Richard Bendall-Jones says in his walkthrough video, Explain My Forecast is live across our Insights range of products today, and you can try it out yourself by signing up to a two-week no-commitment trial of Insights via our website: https://lnkd.in/diT5g4cz 

We recently published a case study on our work with Skanska Costain STRABAG Joint Venture containing some eye-popping data. Now, for the first time ever, you can trial the product they used to get those results! 👇 You’ll get to test nearly all the features of our flagship product, Insights Pro, for two weeks, with no commitment to buy - and you can sign up for the trial, and start using our product in minutes without consulting a salesperson (or anyone else) 🎉 No schedule to upload? No problem. The trial comes with demo data pre-loaded 👨💻 Simply head to https://lnkd.in/en_Wj9GX and hit the bright green ‘Trial it now’ button to get started 🟢 Got questions once you’ve started your trial? Direct them to Richard Bendall-Jones on here or via [email protected] 🙏

Everyone’s favourite nFeature just got a neat little update… Driving Paths automatically creates a network diagram of your schedule, making it easy to: - Identify the critical and sub-critical paths requiring monitoring and proactive treatment - Contextualise the activity and milestone forecasts provided by our Predictive AI Using Driving Paths beats spending days creating ‘homebrew’ visualisations of project plans and is basically Critical Path Analysis on steroids, which is why our users love it. But–as good as it is–we continue to work tirelessly to improve it. Which is where today’s update comes in. Introducing: Driving Paths with Delay Accumulation! As nPlan Product Manager Carlos A. Ledezma, Ph.D explains below, you can now use a simple toggle to see how much of the delay forecast to the end milestone is being contributed by specific nodes - and focus/prioritise your risk mitigation activities accordingly! Watch the short video below to learn more, and then head to our website to check out Insights Core, our no-frills project risk package for Planners, which is built around Driving Paths: https://lnkd.in/diT5g4cz

🥱 Tired: AI hype in construction 🤩 Wired: case studies of real AI use with results data For the last two years, Skanska Costain STRABAG Joint Venture has been using nPlan to forecast and de-risk its work on the HS2 (High Speed Two) Ltd London Tunnels project - and we're delighted to say you can now read about the results of the engagement by downloading our new case study at: https://lnkd.in/eGNVFBaQ Inside the case study you’ll read about how SCS: - Uses nPlan’s AI to identify and mitigate risks before they become issues  - Is making use of nPlan’s Driving Paths (which automates Critical Path Analysis) to reduce risk - Is using nPlan’s insights for cost forecasting - Has turned its risk and forecasting process into a powerful delivery lever As alluded to above, all the hype around AI in construction (and the pushback to the hype), make case studies like this one–which contain a mass of quantitative and qualitative data on the outcomes of the implementation of a genuine AI solution–so important; they give project professionals who are considering new approaches a realistic idea of what’s possible. So please do download it, read it, share it - and get in touch with us if you'd like to chat about what AI-led forecasting and risk management could do for your project 👍👍

If you ask an AI trained on past project schedules to create a plan for a *cooked lasagne*, what do you get? No, we’re not trying to make the (in)famous Wembley Lasagne happen at last - this is an actual test we ran while developing GraphGen, the model which will power Schedule Studio, our upcoming product for Planners and Schedulers. In case you’ve not seen or heard us talking about it yet, Schedule Studio is a Generative AI tool which is able to turn a project description or RFP into a baseline schedule in a matter of minutes. With Schedule Studio, Planners will be able to slash weeks off the time it takes to develop a baseline schedule, enabling them to produce more, high quality schedules in less time - while enabling the contractors they work for to bid for more work, more effectively, and use realistic plans to have productive conversations with clients earlier in pre-construction. nPlan CTO and Co-Founder Alan Mosca recently discussed Schedule Studio on the GenAI podcast, and our lasagne test was just one of the many tasty morsels about the product he shared with host Dale Foong; watch the clip below and then head over to YouTube to watch the full episode for a feast of inside information on Schedule Studio, AutoReport and the rest of the products we unveiled at our July ‘AI Day’ event: https://lnkd.in/etbDGWaj Oh, and if you’d like to get early access to Schedule Studio, you can join the waitlist here: https://lnkd.in/ehzCZMVD

Tick all that apply... ⃣ You're a fan of 1980s video games ⃣ You'd like project management, project controls and risk to be a bit more fun ⃣ Tortured analogies don't send you into a rage If you ticked any or all of these boxes, you're going to LOVE Richard Bendall-Jones' latest contribution to our blog 👇 Now if you'll excuse us, we've got a retro console in the attic that's long overdue some attention...

We ❤️ working with Project Managers. Here's how you know: - We just launched Insights Project Management Professional - a new version of our flagship forecasting and risk management platform designed specially for, you guessed it, Project Managers. Read about it here: https://lnkd.in/egCeTRMt - We recently built a new homepage specifically for PMs within Insights - it's called Control Room and it is the PERFECT place to prep for those all-important weekly progress meetings (the clip below shows some of the functionality). - We just published a piece on our blog by Taylor Burns on how Project Managers can use Control Room to set up the perfect risk dashboard for project assurance --> https://lnkd.in/ef_HPgK8 We're aware that's a lot to be going on with but if you're a Project Manager and would like to stay on top of everything we're doing, we recommend signing up for our monthly newsletter - it's all-killer, no-filler and we'll never spam you: https://lnkd.in/eED4QK3s

An update on Schedule Studio. At AI Day on Jun 27th, we announced Schedule Studio, a new #genai product that would allow users to generate schedules from scratch. The demo was as simple as "upload a random RFP text and get a schedule back". We started signing potential users to a waitlist, while we refine the workflow and experience of creating a new #schedule without ever touching #primavera. I'm please to say that we will begin rolling out early access to the users on the waitlist in the third or fourth week of August. There will be a "credits for feedback" usage model for those first users, as we work tirelessly towards generating usable schedules with little required refinement. I'm excited to see what Schedule Studio will be able to produce, and finding its limitations! Link to sign up to the waitlist in the comments.

“The pace of change within project controls and project delivery is rapid and managing giga-projects can be immensely complex. No single organisation possesses all the expertise and solutions to meet these challenges…therefore an ideal capital project control and performance management approach requires an ecosystem of partners and alliances…” Wise words indeed from Rupert French, Sion Rhys, Le Tilahun and Team at PwC Middle East - one of nPlan’s trusted partners - and the convenor of a genuinely interesting panel discussion on the importance of forming alliances to deliver enhanced project controls capabilities. nPlan CEO Dev Amratia was invited to be part of the discussion, and shared some of what he’s learnt as the leader of a tech company providing AI-powered capabilities within alliances. Check out the clip below and then watch the full thing at: https://lnkd.in/eX8u_f8r