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Week 2 - Building a Clear Roadmap: Setting Up Your Representative Project

Written by Ed Caldeira | Jan 2, 2025 4:30:00 PM

Welcome to Week 2 of your FTQ360 trial onboarding.

Last week, you completed your first guided inspection using FTQ360. That first hands-on experience gave you a taste of how intuitive and effective digital QAQC can be.

Now, in Week 2, it’s time to take the next step - setting up a representative project that models your real-world workflows, which is much more useful for your team to see.

This is where things start to click into place.

You’ll begin translating the inspection processes your team already knows into FTQ360’s digital framework. The goal is to show how your QAQC program can operate digitally without disrupting your current standards and can actually improve on them.

Why This Step Matters

Setting up a representative project is a powerful way to validate the fit between FTQ360 and your current operations. This isn’t about recreating every project from scratch. It’s about demonstrating how digital inspections and QAQC processes can support and improve the way your team works today.

This project setup becomes the foundation for showing your internal stakeholders what digital QAQC really looks like in practice. You’re not just configuring software, you’re building a working model that reflects your company's expectations and inspection workflows.

What to Do This Week

Your FTQ360 team will meet with you to prepare a credible demonstration for key company personnel.  We will collaborate with you in:

  • Selecting one representative project or phase of work that reflects typical QAQC needs.
  • Creating relevant checklists or converting paper forms into digital templates.
  • Aligning inspection checkpoints and automated communications with your field processes.
  • Validating the real live scenario with a tabletop simulation during the meeting.

The result is a project that your field team and managers will recognize. One they can easily relate to when it’s time for demonstrations in Week 3.

Tips for Success

  • Choose a project with familiar processes that most of your team encounters regularly.
  • Think about a commonly inspected project task that will serve as a relatable experience for your team.
  • Use this as a collaborative opportunity to clarify and standardize your own expectations of what can be accomplished across your digital QAQC program.

What Comes Next

With your representative project in place, you’ll be ready for Week 3 - engaging key personnel. You’ll use the project setup you created this week to walk your internal team through a real-time demonstration that builds support and organizational alignment.

Then in Week 4, your team will take what they've learned into the field, conducting real jobsite inspections and refining the process with actual feedback. And beyond the trial, you’ll have everything in place to expand your program, adopt QAQC best practices, and scale digital inspections across your projects.

Stay the course. You’re building real momentum.