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Construction · The Daily Brief
That's the question every project director asks by 8am, and almost no system can answer it. The Daily Brief can: it compares the crew your programme planned for today's activities against the labour your site reports say actually turned up, flags the shortfall, tells you whether float absorbs it or the finish date moves — and offers the re-plan in one click.
The programme says formwork on level 6 needs a gang of twelve today. The subcontractor sent seven. Nobody connects those two facts until the fortnightly programme review — by which time the slip is baked in and the recovery costs overtime money. The information existed on day one: it was just split between a planner's schedule and a site engineer's daily report that never meet.
The Daily Brief makes them meet every morning. Planned crew lives on the schedule activities; the DPR's labour lines are tagged to the activities they worked on. The brief joins the two and tells you — before the day is lost — where today's plan is under-manned and whether it matters.
Planned crew on the programme
Each schedule activity carries a planned crew number — the definition of 'adequately manned' for that work.
DPR labour tagged to activities
Site engineers tag each daily-report labour line to the schedule activity it worked on. Untagged labour is shown separately — on site, but uncredited.
Shortfall vs plan
For every activity live today (from CPM dates), the brief shows planned vs present and flags the gap.
Critical-path impact
A shortfall on a critical activity is flagged as finish-date risk today; non-critical shows its float cover — '2 days float, can absorb'.
One-click re-plan
Accept the slip: record progress and reschedule from today with retained progress — revised finish, slip vs baseline, newly-critical activities.
One page, one morning ritual: totals of planned vs present labour across the project, untagged labour called out, and the list of today's live activities each with its crew shortfall — critical work sorted to the top, because that's finish-date risk today.
A classified red/amber/green feed of internal signals sits alongside the brief, so slipping PPC, overdue snags or a stalling billing curve surface in the same morning glance.
Weekly commitments are made from a lookahead window, marked done or not done, with a reason recorded for every miss. PPC trends your plan reliability, and the reasons-not-done Pareto tells you what keeps breaking your plans — fix the top reason, not the average.
When you accept the slip, one click reschedules from today's data date: done work stays done, in-progress work continues with its remaining duration, unstarted work moves out. You get the revised finish, slip vs baseline and the newly-critical activities — a decision, not a drama.
Two habits feed it — planned crew on activities, tagged labour on DPRs — and after week one the brief runs itself every morning.
Planned crew meets site reality every morning — with the critical-path impact and the re-plan one click away.