Managing Construction Projects

Question

I am looking to find out if it is possible to manage construction projects using Jira Work Management.

In my use case we have a bill of quantity (BOQ) with resources (human and material) with fields such as quantity, rate, amount etc currently managed with excel.

Will it be possible to upload this BOQ in a Jira project, such that the project tasks can be tracked against the original BOQ.  For example assuming I have 1,000 paint buckets for the project, for a particular painting task I should be able to indicate that 10 paint buckets were used, just the same way time can be logged and it will deplete from the 1000 defined for the project. needless to say that the task could potentially have more than one resource, for instance I will want to be able to also enter the about of human resource that was expended in the same painting task.

Based on this I should be able to create dashboards that can show progress based on time and material.

I am open to potential solutions even if it will require purchasing multiple plugins.

Thank you.

Mark Segall · Accepted Answer

Hi @Oluwole Fapohunda - It sounds like you need a combination of issue tracking coupled with a database for tracking your supplies.  Work Management would absolutely be able to handle the task tracking needs.

To get the database aspects, you'd want something like Insight which is only available with Jira Service Management (JSM) premium licensing.  Insight would allow you to capture your inventory and other resource data. Then you would leverage automation to be able to deplete inventory as issues are linked to Insight objects.

John Funk · Accepted Answer

Hi @Oluwole Fapohunda

You could probably do this, though it might be a little clunky. You could have a couple of separate custom field that has the current balance of your resource.

So that balance starts with 1,000 buckets of paint.

Then you have a separate custom field that contains the number of buckets of paint for a particular project -say 20.

Then when you complete or assign buckets of paint to a project, it subtracts the total from the overall balance. You would do that using automation for Jira rules.

It's not as clean as using Insights, but would be a whole lot cheaper in that you wouldn't need additional add-ons.