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Paid for a fancy project management app for 6 months before trying a whiteboard on the wall
Had a crew of 8 on a 3-month renovation in Denver and the app just complicated everything with all these check-in pings. Switched to a simple whiteboard with color-coded magnets for each phase and my foreman actually started updating it on his own.
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emmag4018d ago
The 14 status updates I got from the app each day told me exactly nothing useful, but the red magnet creeping across the whiteboard meant the drywall crew was finally done with taping. That physical board gave my guys a reason to walk past and see what the next guy was doing, which fixed more scheduling holes than any automated reminder ever could. Sometimes the best tool is the one that stays out of the way and lets people think for themselves.
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patricia_kelly18d agoMost Upvoted
Does that app do anything useful besides making you feel productive, @emmag40?
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