Completing a project on time is integral in the business world. Deliverables, milestones, kickoff meetings, stakeholders, Gantt charts, and countless other moving components constitute each project that must be completed in a timely manner for the growth of the business. However, a study by PricewaterhouseCoopers, which reviewed 10,640 projects from 200 companies in 30 countries and across various industries, finds that only 2.5% of the companies successfully completed 100% of their projects. Furthermore, a survey reveals that $1M is wasted every 20 seconds by organizations around the world and that organizations that undervalue project management report much higher project failure rates. It is clear that integrating project scheduling software into your app is a surefire way to provide the functionality that your users sorely need. But how do you do it strategically to budget for time and money when faced with the many challenges of building project scheduling software?
Creating a realistic project schedule and sticking to it is one of the biggest challenges a project faces. Before starting a new project, project managers must set deadlines that the team needs to hit along the way. If these deadlines and milestones aren’t properly identified, it’s very likely that the project will not be completed. Your project scheduling software users may be customers looking to plan their wedding—who may lose the venue because the reservation payment was not made in time—or they could be a project management agency helping customers of their own with a wide range of use cases, such as acquisitions, technology implementation, corporate business services, and labs enhancing scientific processes, to name a few. Either way, they have in common the need to schedule recurring tasks, meetings, milestones, and dependent tasks so that hand-offs can happen in a timely manner. Meetings about high-level planning and structure workflows must be scheduled, and keeping track of resource allocation for managing costs are critical.
Having your project scheduling software address these day-to-day and long-term scheduling tasks will help you attract and retain users while also increasing user engagement. However, here are just a few of the challenges in building your own project scheduling software:
Not to mention, the time and resources devoted to building these will divert from building differentiating features for your app.
With a powerful project scheduling software solution like the universal Nylas Calendar API, it takes just 18 days and one engineer to build full calendar integrations with 100% of providers in the world. In addition, Nylas comes with pre-built security features that provide a more secure, reliable connection than you’d get integrating with the service providers directly – out of the box, we’re SOC 2 certified, GDPR compliant, Privacy Shield certified and HIPAA and FINRA ready.
The Nylas Calendar API not only provides all of the basic features delineated above, but it also offers a full suite of robust features that will make using project scheduling software a streamlined, effective, and easy experience for your app’s users. Let’s take a look at one feature in particular, recurring events, which is integral to staying on top of a project’s timeline.
One of the most important aspects of planning a project is regularly evaluating the progress with check-ins and updates to make sure everyone is on the same page and things are on track. This requires having an easy way to set up recurring meetings so that scheduling is one less administrative task your users have to take care of. Working with RRULEs can be notoriously difficult, but with Nylas, it’s as simple as making a call to the /events endpoint:
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Newsroomcurl -X POST \
https://api.nylas.com/events \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H 'cache-control: no-cache' \
-d '{
"title":"coffee",
"location": "cafe grumpy",
"calendar_id": "b464omkvjd1831vyzk70nowtze",
"participants": [
{
"email": "[email protected]"
},
{
“email”: “[email protected]”,
“status”: “yes”
}
],
"recurrence": { "rrule": [ "RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;BYDAY=MO" ],
"timezone": "America/Los_Angeles" },
"when": { "start_time": 1574100000, "end_time": 1574103600 }
}'
Take a look at our docs to see how updating and deleting a recurring event is just as simple.
Selecting a scalable API for your project scheduling software empowers your users to manage projects and costs with confidence. Providing a solution that links tasks and schedules, all without leaving your application, boosts your user retention, satisfaction, and bottom line. Learn how the Nylas Calendar API can help you provide full scheduling functionality for your construction scheduling software today. Sign up and try the API for free today, or schedule time to speak to a platform specialist now.
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