On larger events, and often multi-day ones, a list of shifts quickly becomes hard to read. You want to see in one glance whether workers are in the right place at the right time, and whether they have enough break.
That is strip planning: a timeline of this event, across the sales points or zones. It lives on the event page of that job, not across your whole season.
What you see on the timeline
Each strip is a place: a truck, a bar, a kitchen, a gate, a zone. Shifts sit on it in time, so you see when someone starts, when someone has a break, and where a gap is still open.
In a list you read shifts one under the other. On the timeline you see overlap and breaks across places, without walking every row. The difference is not “how many shifts there are”, but whether the setup over the day actually fits.
Assigning people at scale often happens next in personnel planning. Strip planning is the picture of this event, so you can check whether that schedule is right.
When strip planning helps
A festival weekend with several trucks, event catering with parallel outlets, or a venue with zones on a peak day: that is when the timeline pays off. You see whether two places get in each other’s way, whether breaks on a zone hold, and where Saturday still has a gap while Sunday looks full.
One bar on one afternoon is usually enough on the event day. Overview across several events in a month belongs on the calendars.
How this fits the rest of Flooptimize
- Places: concepts and sales points
- This event: the event page
- Which overview when: planning overviews
- Overview across several events: calendars
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