Interkarto is a team of engineers and architects working in the field of urban design. The characteristic of this field is the long project cycle of more than six months and a multi-level structure: each subsequent stage begins only after the previous one is completed. At the same time, the team can manage more than 50 projects of different scales, so when choosing a tool, the key requirements were resource visualization, control of the sequence of stages, and the ability to assess the workload of executors in advance.

Gradually, manual control became impossible: the number of projects increased and errors in the allocation of tasks, as well as the risks of overloading individual specialists, became inevitable. The Gantt chart was the most suitable format for the field, but it was necessary to choose a product that would allow not only to visualize the work, but also to correctly distribute the volume of tasks among specialists.

Working with resources was an extremely important requirement: “It is impossible to keep track of everything, and it is quite possible that, relatively speaking, after a month and a half after load distribution, as the number of tasks increases, more tasks may be distributed per employee, and it turns out that in fact the same person is simultaneously involved in several projects. As a result, an overloaded employee does not complete tasks on time, deadlines are disrupted, and the project begins to slow down.”

The team chose a testing method: from Clickup and Monday to Bitrix, different products were tried, but none of them had convenient and simple functionality that would allow for effective reallocation of labor resources and risk calculation.

"We have tried Clickup, Monday, Kaiten, Bitrix and many local products, but we have not found an easy and convenient way to work with resource loading in any of them"