by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 9, 2023 | 360 Difference Software, Critical Chain Project Management, Estimating, Lean Thinking, Project Management
For a long long time now I have said we need to think of our work and work planning in terms of “packages of tasks” or work packages. I don’t know exacly know how or where I formulated my thinking but I am pretty sure it comes from leaning about the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 6, 2023 | 360 Difference Software, Apple Computing, iOS4Construction, Mac4Construction, Macintosh Software
There is a myth many of us grew up with saying “We Only Use 10% of Our Brains”. Well that’s just not true at all. But that said I think we can say that “ We Only Use 5% Of Our iPhones (or Macs). The other week I began work on programming and UI updates to my...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 25, 2019 | 360 Difference Software, Contracting 101, Estimating, FileMaker, Information Technology, Macintosh Software
I wrote a blog post over on the 360Differece.com website about my evolution with estimating and technology in the mid-1980s and 1990s that I thought I should share it here too. Introduction My interest in estimating actually developed long before I ever started my own...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 2, 2018 | 360 Difference Software
So I watched a video today about CoConstruct Estimating and Donnie Wyatt the founder and President of CoConstruct 37 seconds into the video made the claim… …I’m going to show you something you’d never see somewhere else. Second of all is I am...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 14, 2018 | 360 Difference Software, Markup & Pricing
Lately, I’ve been working with a lot of contractors who have their own shop space or have other friends and colleagues who have just gone the root of setting up a shop space or have a storage yard somewhere so I made some modifications to the Capacity Based Markup...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 31, 2018 | 360 Difference Software, Books, Estimating, FileMaker, Labor Rates, Macintosh Software, Markup & Pricing
This is my own critical look at The ProRemodeler “The Big Reveal” Article which appeared in the May 2018 issue of ProRemodeler about contractor colleague Michael Anschel’s ideas regarding a new phrase we are hearing a lot of nowadays,...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 23, 2017 | 360 Difference Software, Books, Customer Relationship Management
In her book seminal book The Not So Big House: A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live Sarah Susanka writes: “In a three-ring binder, start to assemble data about the places in your life that make you feel comfortable and those that make you feel uncomfortable....
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 21, 2016 | 360 Difference Software, Apple Computing
Recode (formerly Re/code) the technology news, reviews, and analysis website that Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher founded to focus on the technology of Silicon Valley says that IBM has found that Macs are cheaper for business over time....
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 21, 2010 | 360 Difference Software, Estimating
“Canned” Estimating Data is the phrase I use (and I’m sure many other professionals do too) to describe using estimating data that comes from an estimating data books such as companies like R.S. Means, Craftman’s, BNI, or RemodelMax produce...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 18, 2005 | 360 Difference Software, Customer Relationship Management, Lead Tracking & Management, Ω - Revised
I’ve got a little function built in to my estimating program that is what I call a “triage meter”. The program asks you to assign a numeric value to rate the following conditions of the job lead on a scale of 1 to 5 with 1 being the worst or lowest...
