Selected systems / Probables

Future work

Make likely future work visible and record a new probable in a consistent way.

Synthetic demonstration

Commercial and operational leaders · 58.1 seconds

The demonstration

What this film shows

The pipeline lists likely future work with value, margin, status, owner and division.  A new probable is captured through a consistent form, including year-by-year value and retention, and joins the same list.

The problem

Likely future work often lives in inboxes, forecasts and personal lists.  Status and value then cannot be reviewed in one place.

Who uses it

Commercial and operational leaders need a shared view of what is likely, who owns it and how it is valued.

The flow

  1. The pipeline lists likely future work with value, margin, status, owner and division.
  2. A new probable is opened on a consistent form.
  3. Client, project, division, value, margin, yearly split and retention are recorded.
  4. The new record joins the same controlled list.

Design choices

The form asks for the same fields every time.  That keeps a new probable comparable with the rest of the pipeline.

Related systems

Probable work can later appear in Management Accounts as pipeline rather than live trading.