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The job board

Running the course7 minute readIn the app: /app/jobs

Creating work, assigning it, and getting it marked done by the people doing it.

Adding a job

  1. 1Open the Job board and fill in the form at the top.
  2. 2Give it a title somebody can act on. 'Verticut the practice green' beats 'greens'.
  3. 3Pick a category — it's what makes the reports worth reading later.
  4. 4Set a priority. One is 'the course suffers today if this doesn't happen'; use it sparingly or it stops meaning anything.
  5. 5Estimate the minutes. Guess if you have to — after a season of actuals you'll stop guessing.
  6. 6Optionally attach it to a zone, a crew or a person. A job with no assignee shows up as unclaimed on the board.

The three states

StateWhat it meansWho sets it
PlannedIt's on the board for a day. Nobody has started.Whoever created it
RunningSomeone has started. The clock on actual minutes is going.The person doing it
DoneFinished, with actual minutes recorded.The person doing it

From the crew's side

A crew member opens the board on their phone and sees their jobs for today, largest first. One tap starts it, one tap finishes it. That's the whole interaction — anything more and it doesn't get done on a wet Tuesday.

Checklists

A job can carry a checklist. Use it for the jobs where the order matters or the new hire won't know the fifth step — bunker work, irrigation repairs, anything with a shutdown. A checklist is training that doesn't cost a supervisor's morning.

Estimated versus actual is the whole point

Every finished job records what it really took. After one season you can answer 'how long does it actually take us to mow greens?' with a number instead of a feeling — which is the number that wins budget arguments.

Questions

Can I copy yesterday's jobs to today?

Recurring work is best set up as a template so it appears without anyone typing. For one-offs, creating it fresh is quicker than finding and duplicating.

Somebody finished a job but forgot to mark it done.

A lead or manager can mark it done on their behalf. The record shows who marked it, so the history stays honest.

Can I delete a job that's already finished?

Yes, but consider whether you want to. Finished jobs are what your minutes-per-job history is made of, and deleting them makes next year's planning worse.

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