Dawgs! Over the past few jobs we have run the Pull Plan both analog (Sticky Notes and Boards on the wall) and online (we used Touch Plan). Analog is great because of the natural conversations that happen when the foremen are up at the boards, updating their commitments and bumping shoulders with each other - the "hum" of conversation in a room during our sessions was organic and the lifeblood of the job. Then we needed 2 assistant level guys spending 3-4 hours on a Friday collecting data, entering it on a spreadsheet, chasing foremen down for variance reasons or "Hey you haven't updated your plan yet". Ultimately it was a chaotic way to get the "Learning" part of our LPS done. When we utilized Touch Plan, all of that worry went away because the program tracks all that for you, forces people to put variance reasons on any commitment that changes its finish date, tracks PPC in any way you could want and pumps out pretty reports. The problem is that "hum" in the room during foreman's meetings was gone. We tried to replicate it throughout the job and while we still had an effective pull plan, it wasn't nearly as effective as analog. I am wondering if others have had this same experience and if anyone would be interested in a program that can pump out statistics based on a picture of your analog boards? Would like to discuss this a bit further with you all tomorrow but please give me some feedback!

Good Morning Dawgs, I’ve been trying to get this field reference app finished up to be able to test. If any of y’all could take a look and let me know what could be improved for the user experience. Check it out at measuretwiceapp.com It’s got a bunch of feature and I’ll try to work on some tutorials. I’d especially like to hear from multifamily builders as it started out trying to solve frustrations I had remembering and looking up different things and I wanted to make a more streamlined tool for search. It’s got safety standards, measurements, ADA references, etc. I appreciate any help, thanks!

I need some help refining a PowerPoint presentation. Please feel free to send whatever feedback you feel may add value. Don’t hold back, I promise you won’t hurt my feelings. A little back story: I’ve been putting lean tools and philosophy into practice since the year started, very much acting as a “lone champion” in my small semi custom home building company. For reference our division will close 60 houses this year, and I’m covering about half of those (I am one of four CM’s). The presentation will be made at our next monthly builder meeting in front of the 3 other construction managers, 1 assistant CM, 3 warranty managers, our director of construction (my direct superior) and the VP of Construction (he oversees field ops over the entire company, including our semi custom division). I’m trying to make this as easily digestible as possible, since pre-existing lean knowledge in the room will be slim at best. I don’t have an exact date for this presentation yet, but I’m thinking it will be 2nd week of September. I’ve spent a lot of time putting these practices to work on a day to day basis and I want to make sure that is reflected in the presentation. I’m really looking forward to your feedback! It’s been incredible to be a part of a true grassroots effort at my company, but still have the backing and support of the old dawgs. Appreciate everyone in this group!

Hey yall! We have a webinar with Lean Construction Blog X Old Dawg Builders' Community this Thursday in place of our Old Dawgs Learning New Tricks. Here is a link to sign up: https://leanconstructionblog.com/webinar-36.html I plan to send out a calendar invite to everyone as soon as I get the presenter link from The Lean Construction Blog folks. My one question for the team is: how much construction experience do you have?! Please drop it in the comments so we can tout it to the attendees! We have to be well over 1,000 years of experience in this group! #sharingconstructionwisdom #grateful

Dawgs! Would love for you all to try out this app for your jobsite(s). It gives you live feedback on the health of your job based on a 10 question, bilingual survey designed to take less than 90 seconds. We then have 2 optional, open ended questions at the end asking what your biggest slowdown is and what the leadership should change. Click this link: https://jobsite-pulse.vercel.app/login -Create a Login -Create a project -click the QR Code button top right -Print and share the QR code -Collect your feedback! -Once you have a good amount of feedback, the bottom right of the dashboard has an AI Voice that will analyze your feedback and give you suggested actions. Would love to hear some feedback. Shout out to Marcus for teaching this Old Dawg new tricks!