A general contractor friend of mine
has harped on me for years about the
importance of job scheduling. "Schedule
is everything," he'd say. He
insisted that an otherwise profitable
subdivision could prove to be a disaster
if the schedule was lost. I had
trouble with his philosophy. I wasn't
building subdivisions. I was doing
room additions and remodels, the
kind of work that's over almost as
quickly as it begins.
The Importance of Sharing
Time has proved my friend right.
Until about a year ago we employed a
superintendent whose job was to
schedule our in-house crew and our
subcontractors. He was required to
maintain a written calendar of events
and organize work for each job by that
schedule. Jobs