DPR discipline that actually sticks on site
Most daily progress reporting dies within a month, not because engineers are lazy, but because the form takes twelve minutes and gives them nothing back.
Make it shorter than a WhatsApp message
A DPR that asks for quantity, shift, manpower split, idle hours and weather against a pre-selected activity takes under a minute on a phone. Anything longer competes with the actual work and loses.
Assume there is no network
Half of India's project sites have no usable signal where the work is happening. If the form needs connectivity, engineers write on paper and enter it three days later from memory — which is how quantities get rounded and dates get vague. Store the entry on the device and sync it later.
Give something back immediately
The moment a DPR is validated, the engineer should see the balance quantity drop, the S-curve move and the forecast date shift. Reporting that visibly changes something gets done. Reporting that disappears into a mailbox does not.
Validate, don't just collect
An unvalidated DPR should not count towards progress or earned value. One authorised clearance step is the difference between a data set you can defend in a claim and a pile of numbers.
Plan-Sarthi puts these practices into one workspace — validated DPRs driving the S-curve, critical path, earned value and forecast automatically.
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