Quietly Re-Thinking Out Loud: Exploring New Paradigms
For How We Manage What We Build
The Daily Scrum
The daily scrum: It's not a status meeting, it's a synchronization meeting Hat tip to Mike Cohn of Mountain Goat Software
Dominant Personality Traits Suited to Running Projects Successfully (And What Type are You?) by Max Wideman
One of the problems I have seen and even experienced in my own company at times was what I called “Accidental Project Manager Syndrome”. It is believed to have originated from the real-world scenario where individuals find themselves managing projects without having...
4 Qualifying Questions For When Clients Come Calling | Mike Knoche ProRemodeler.com
Mike Knoche writes in ProRemodeler.com May 30th 2023 an article entitled: “4 Qualifying Questions For When Clients Come Calling”. Well yeah,... almost,…I guess that’s okay but I wouldn’t be so blunt in asking those questions outright: 1. What is the size and scope of...
More Support For The Argument for Activity/Capacity Based Markup
Found this cleaning up my office files today… the third paragraph reads: For example, the current method of adding a percentage markup to cover overhead and profit on top of the direct material and labor may not be an accurate method to allocate the branch resources...
Marcus Sheridan On The 5 Big Things That Govern The Research Being Done Bt Potential Customers Online
Marcus Sheridan on LinkedIn:
Think About Project Planning In Terms of Work Packages
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 organization and...
Figuring OPPH Overhead & Profit Per Hour is More Accurate & Precise Than The Practice of Figuring a Weekly Charge for Overhead & Profit
Just one of the many reasons I prefer figuring OPPH Overhead & Profit Per Hour over the practice of figuring a weekly charge for Overhead & Profit as a fair number of contractors I know in Kyle Hunt's Remodeler's Community Group on Facebook instead of ...
On Company Culture… by Ahmad Al Cheikh Hassan
Over on LinkedIn Ahmad Al Cheikh Hassan wrote: —“An employee who left your organisation for money, may come back for money. But an employee who left for culture would never come back even for money. Because what an employee finds in the culture is priceless, it’s...
SEO & Content Marketing Are Still King
I was listening to a YouTube video the other day from Spencer Powell of Builder Funnel and in it I seem to recall him saying that social media was not the big traffic driver we had all thought or hoped it would be and that content marketing and SEO were still king....
Are you displaying pricing on your website yet?
"According to Jakob Nielson, a website usability expert, one of the most important things that prospective customers are looking for on your website is pricing." https://www.passionforbusiness.com/blog/want-to-turn-off-website-visitors-dont-include-your-prices/
My collection of thoughts and ideas on the state of the Building and Remodeling industry and its future with regard to topics like: Branding, Culture, Technology, Project Management, CRM, Open-Book Management, Business Models, Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM), The Theory of Constraints (TOC), Systems Thinking, JIT, TQM, Lean Construction, CPM and the Lead Carpenter System.
