Ck Yeah Development of a Mobile Solution for Delivering Price Quotes in the Construction Industry

I ABSTRACT The rapid growth of the mobile consumer market has influenced companies to make their workplace digital and mobile, with the goal to remove ties to a physical workplace, increase productivity, and trivialize tedious tasks. The construction industry is in need of modernization; it is a competitive market and to get a contract it is vital to provide a reasonable price quote fast. This bachelor thesis was performed together with Byggwalle AB in Västerås with the objective to create a mobile solution for price quotes, based on an earlier experimental prototype. This thesis will look at how the manual price quote creation process can be sped up and made more transparent to build up trust between the companies and the customers. It will also look at the choices made when developing a mobile application for the construction industry, how to make it flexible enough to fit different kinds of businesses, and look at how the data is administrated using a web based administration system. The result of this thesis is a promotional prototype, which sped up the delivery of price quotes from 3 weeks to 3 hours, and will be distributed to selected companies for further testing in the near future. We hope that this product can change the way business is done in construction industry. II PREFACE We started with Byggwalle AB's predecessor to this project, Rummenkalkylator, and got to experience delivering a product to a happy customer. In that project we were all beginners, but we learned a lot and came out much more experienced. Getting the opportunity to once again partner up with Byggwalle for an improved version of the product was something we couldn't turn down. Working with this, we have grown as developers and learned new techniques, but also made some mistakes. There have been the usual misinterpretations of requirements; setting the project scope has been challenging and documents have not been updated properly. These mistakes serve as great lessons, and will affect the way we work in the future. We would like to thank Byggwalle AB for this opportunity and also for them providing us with an office of our own to work from every day, this has been of great help. Especially we would like to thank Peter Vahlfridsson for his enthusiasm, all the lunches to keep us energized and for a pleasant evening at his cottage. We would also like to …