 So I've had a really busy last few days and I thought I'd talk a little bit about workflow management So when I'm not making YouTube videos I have a business to run and that's kind of what I wanted to talk about so I figured maybe some people are interested in this and What I'm doing right now, and this is kind of a live. I'm waiting for messages to come back from my Employees and I've got slack open and right now. I have a group of guys building infrastructure for a client now part of the way that works for us is People inside the office and happens to be me because it's seven in the morning and so He's out there installing and and we're out here doing the inside workflow and the way this works to keep things simple is As my guys are deploying things out in the field someone on the inside will be checking and watching the setup in real time Because what that does right now if you can see the screen behind me make sure you shrink my window a little bit here You can see that There's a pending upgrade right now. So we're upgrading a Wi-Fi and then we have these other ones here now There's pending one. We're pushing it remotely. This is he's actually on site of the client And setting these up. So as these go live we go ahead and Name them because this one's going to be called office Wi-Fi, which I think I can name even while it's upgrading Yeah so this one's going inside the office and And What this does is gives it a really nice easy workflow So as they install everything we already have them named it then the next step after is going to be the cameras because this is a Wi-Fi and Camera install system and the drops so as each component becomes live we go ahead right here and Name them get them set up So everything is clear done all in one step then at the same time Internally we're creating a documentation kind of as we go so right office Wi-Fi set up Here's the settings But it's easy for us because this one's managed by on our managed services plan because this is a managed client So it's it's one of those things that I think a lot of people think about is if you just put one guy out there Have him do it all at once He becomes distracted with all the things because I have one person focused on only the install side Once he plugs in live he says he sends the message just plugged in office Wi-Fi It should be live we get the message we look for it on the dashboard We see it show up and become live in this case. We've had to push an upgrade to it and Boom we're done. This one's labeled as soon as these ones come live these other ones up at the top here We're gonna get those labeled and as we're doing this We also go through in the wiki for this client create all the documentation as needed enters any changes versus the plan that was first laid out those are documented in real time So this is something that I don't think a lot of IT people think about is as you build out your team and you focus Each member of your team on a very specific thing They become very very good at it and that way you're not this Jump back and forth and this allows us to get projects done really fast So he's gonna just run around plugging them all in he doesn't have to think about any of the other aspects of the job He just focused on the task assigned then the internal guys because we're sitting in a nice office We're not climbing up in ceilings and this is actually a big warehousing project. So that's not going on so we don't have as much to worry about in terms of Getting distracted by whatever else is going on there. So this is how we keep our documentation clean This is how we keep the process moving forward and Tested this also is really good for the camera side of it So as he calls in for the cameras, we're going to be saying, you know Up a little down a little over a little and there may be some final fine-tuning that the client wants in case the client's not available To look at the camera view in real time, but it's the same thing. He's up on a ladder He doesn't have to worry about it. He just points to the right points to the left We get it done. He moves on to the next camera. He's not having to worry about okay I got to put this down break this down come back again and Adjust these cameras the second time after I make sure all the wiring is working So I just want to talk about that as kind of the workflow and it's Sometimes what keeps me busy and what I'm doing when I'm not making YouTube videos, you know It's coordinating all these projects dealing with client changes because they always change around what they want Which I'm fine with we're very flexible because this client said I only want this and then they said You know what when we came out to the job. They asked for three more cameras. I'm not gonna tell them No, I ordered the cameras and So we're gonna be installing three more cameras than we originally thought we were gonna install Which is exactly great for us, you know, as long as they are adding We really don't have any issue if they want to reduce a job after they've already give us deposit We have to talk about that but generally we're flexible and that I can't really think of too many times It's ever happened where they go. We thought we wanted it now. We want less Almost always what they do especially as they see the cameras go up or the Wi-Fi go up You know We'd love to have Wi-Fi over here and we'd love to have a view from a camera over here And we love these additional things so we keep a lot of this stuff in stock So we just say no problem. We got them on a shelf and we'll run one out there But of course, that's also what sucks up some of my time is running one out there because that way I don't want my guy leaving coming back So we can keep the job flowing and get it all done because if you bump one job schedule It messes up a lot of our schedule but I just want to share my thoughts on that and Let you guys know I'm still working on more YouTube videos on all kinds of stuff I got a big list But this this stuff is what actually pays my bills right now not YouTube So I really have to make sure all of these processes are flowing forward and moving forward customers as always if you like the content here Like and subscribe Hopefully this information was useful or makes you think about Workflow and share me share with me some of your workflow that you're doing on this I mean that's always a concept. We're working and you can go through the history of our videos and see how we do things We're very open about it. And if you have other questions about you know business operations Throw it out there to us We don't mind talking about it on vlog Thursdays and how we do things we're making specific videos on how tasks are handled internally Within my company. I like sharing that I like helping other business owners And you know if any of this is useful to you to help refine your process and IT awesome glad it helped you once again Thanks again