Go-Back Work Manager

(Premium and Professional Users)
 
This tool provides a practical solution to a common problem many teams face when implementing the Last Planner® System.  Sometimes, a production activity is complete enough to allow a clean handoff without interrupting production flow, however a few things may need to be done later to fully complete the original activity.  Conventional scheduling systems provided a work around that allows successor activities to be completed even if their predecessors are not complete.  This results in confusion schedules that are difficult to follow.  vPlanner includes a tool (Go-Back Work Manager) to manage those kinds of activities in a much simpler way.  It includes a new status code: “Complete with Go-Back” where the Go-Back work is recorded and associated with the original task. vPlanner will track all identified Go-Back work so that the production managers can come back later and plan the Go-Back work in collaboration with the respective team members.  New metrics are also introduced to track and report on Go-Back activities as they may indicate opportunities for improvement.
 
Go-Back Work Manager
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View

1. View
Select any rows in the Go-Back work manager, then click the option under the View menu to isolate the related tasks in the main plan window.
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Plan

2. Plan
Select any rows in the Go-Back work manager, then click the option under the Plan menu to insert new tasks in the plan.  When tasks are inserted, the Go-Back status will be checked to indicate that those Go-Back activities are now part of the plan.  Note that you can reinsert the Go-Back tasks multiple times if required.  The inserted tasks will inherit all the attributes of the original tasks.
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Reset Column Visibility

3. Reset Column Visibility
Reset columns to defaults if some where hidden.
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Hide Planned

4. Hide Planned
 
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Go-Back  Planned Status

5. Go-Back  Planned Status
This will identify which Go-Back activities have already been planned.
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Column Visibility

6. Column Visibility
Use this tool to turn on or off the visible columns.
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Enable Column Filters

7. Enable Column Filters
 
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Add

8. Add
Select any rows in the Go-Back work manager, then click the option under the Plan menu to insert new tasks in the plan.  When tasks are inserted, the Go-Back status will be checked to indicate that those go-back activities are now part of the plan.  Note that you can reinsert the go-back tasks multiple times if required.  The inserted tasks will inherit all the attributes of the original tasks (similar to the Plan menu option)
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Save

9. Save
Save changes.