A remodeling job gets estimated at 112 working days. It finishes at 368.
This spring, production managers in six Remodelers Advantage Production Manager Roundtable (PMRT) groups put their schedule numbers side by side. Inside a single group, one company was slipping about one job in ten. Another was slipping more than half. Same kind of market, same economy. A gap that size comes from how a company runs.
In this solo episode, Greg Woleck walks through what the numbers showed about schedule slip (finishing late) and grip (finishing early), and what the best production managers do to hold the date they promised.
In this episode:
– Why anything more than 2% off the promised duration, in either direction, is a warning sign
– Why finishing early isn’t the win it feels like
– The six reasons jobs slip, and why most of them are preventable
– The three-week look-ahead and the job handoff sheet – Why production needs a say before the contract is signed
– Why a slipping schedule is often the first sign a PM is struggling
“The homeowner doesn’t need you to be fast. They need you to be right.”
Learn more about the Production Manager Roundtables: https://remodelersadvantage.com/membership/production-manager-peer-groups/
To talk about a PMRT seat, email Greg at greg@remodelersadvantage.com with PMRT in the subject line. Owners, the same email works for a seat for your PM.
Have a topic, a guest, or a story from the remodeling world worth sharing? Reach out to Greg at greg@remodelersadvantage.com.
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