Santiago Gomez, IT Manager at A. D. Williams Engineering, describes how the company set up large LCD monitors on the production floor to show the company's Basecamp milestones.
A monitor displays milestones at A. D. Williams Engineering.
A. D. Williams Engineering is a multi-discipline consulting engineering firm in Western Canada, with offices in 5 cities. We have been using Basecamp for over 2 years and we love it. It has improved tremendously the way we collaborate among engineering disciplines and across geographical locations.Our Winnipeg regional director, Tom Zborowsky, wanted to show the late and upcoming milestones in a large LCD monitor on the production floor. He wants to make sure everyone knows which projects are due and when, and as soon as he sees red on the board he knows the project needs to be addressed.
Our new programmer from Germany, Matthias Otto, did an excellent job integrating the Basecamp API and scripting the output to match what we wanted very quickly and effectively.
Tom sent me an email yesterday after the display went up: "I love my new production schedule monitor. Great job and the best part is that I can see the red dates from my office. Everyone here likes it so far or until their project goes red for everyone to see."
Thanks to Basecamp and the API we are able to leverage existing project data in a new and innovative way.
Thank you and keep up the great work.
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