GigsBoard assures alignment for the entire Contract team on various aspects like overall project schedule and status, blocking issues, dependencies, etc, via its custom-built Agile/ Scrum-based Project management engine.

• Leverages Agile-based Requirements structuring to ensure complete clarity of work tasks to all team members as appropriate.
• Leverages Kanban Boards with Task-level cards to drive clarity of status.
• Leverages “Daily standup meetings” to ensure that the Contract execution teams are keep Kanban cards updated, and to ensure that the Project management team is able monitor project status & blockers on a daily basis.
• Leverages Contract Governance calls to ensure that the Customer team & Project execution team are aligned on status & blockers.

GigsBoard enables Business customers to save costs on their IT Services, by leveraging on-demand gig-based services.

• The competitive bidding model ensures that customers can access the lowest possible costs, while also being able to effectively compare on other capability aspects such as the performance of previous projects on GigsBoard.
• The on-demand Team engagement model ensures that the entire Project team is engaged at the same time, and thus helps to eliminate sunk costs due to wait time for resources.
• The automated Job Proposal comparison mechanism ensures that Businesses can save significant time on the entire RFP-to-Contract phase, and thus save time and costs.
• By establishing clear Execution Planning and end-to-end Scope traceability, as well as Agile-based Contract volume management mechanism, the system is able to clearly manage impacts of changes on overall project schedule & costs.
• The built-in Burn-up/ Burn-down chart helps to forecast the likely completion date of the project, and helps to thus manage costs associated with actual product launches.

GigsBoard enables Talent discovery via 3 approaches:

1. At the primary Search level (from the Menu bar), GigsBoard allows you to search for Agencies, Project Managers, or Freelancers that match your Business’ Industry domain, by default.
2. At this level, GigsBoard also permits you to fine-tune your Talent discovery using various filters, such as Skills, Work domains, etc, as well as various sorting factors such as Assessment scores, Timezone difference, etc.
3. When Talent Search is performed from within a Job, then the Search automatically switches to the context of the Job, that is, with the relevant Work domain, Skills, Job size & complexity, etc, as well as the Industry match if needed.

If you have included any Service Providers in your ‘Preferred network’, then these Service providers will automatically get pushed to the top of the sorted list of Service providers displayed (if they match the filters selected).

This functionality is also extended to the automated sorting of any Job Proposals submitted, so that your efforts spent on comparing the Job proposals can also be minimized significantly.

GigsBoard has developed & implemented its own variant of Agile, which drives end-to-end traceability of work scope as well as limiting the impact of scope creep during project execution.

• At Job definition, GigsBoard establishes a structured mechanism for Requirements capture.
• Job Proposals development follows the same structured model, to ensure that the submitted Job proposals cover the entire scope of work requested.
• During Contract Execution planning, Job Requirements are broken down into components called Scenarios & Tasks, and the Tasks shall be qualified on various factors, and the Contract Execution plan is automatically generated.
• Tasks in a contract shall be tagged to specific Execution Cycles on the basis of criticality, size, urgency, dependencies, etc.
• Contract payments shall also be pro-rated and assigned to each Execution Cycle.
• When any Deliverables are submitted to the Customers, Customers have the option to accept or reject each component received. On rejection, a Defect is automatically generated, and added to the end-to-end Traceability matrix.

GigsBoard has built-in multi-level Kanban Boards, covering 2 different levels of  Visual Project management:

1. At the top level are the primary Boards: Jobs board, Contracts board, and Projects board.
2. All Jobs in scope shall be tracked via the Jobs board.
3. Jobs awarded to external teams and then managed via Contracts shall be managed via the Contracts board.
4. Jobs being executed by Customers’ Internal teams shall be managed via the Projects board.
5. Each Job, Contract or Project tracked on the above Boards can be explored in detail via the associated Kanban cards.
6. Contracts & Projects can be further broken down into Execution Cycles, and Users shall be allowed to dive deeper into the Cycles and the associated Tasks using the second-level Kanban Board called Execution Boards.
7. If the Job includes any post-execution Training, then GigsBoard also provides a Training Kanban board to track the delivery of training service.
8. If the Job includes any post-execution Warranty Support, then GigsBoard also provides a Warranty Support board to track the delivery of Warranty Support service.

The Kanban boards system has a built-in Rules engine to indicate whether the associated activity (Job, Contract, or Project) are under any risk of delays, cost escalation, etc. This enables Users to visually receive an instant update of the status of the activity, without even having to open the Card. Further details shall be revealed when the cards are opened.