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Episode 2·Season 1·From the Trenches··38 min

Your Schedule Is a Living Document (or It's Dead)

A field-level look at why static schedules fail and what a living schedule actually looks like in practice.

Show Notes

Bruce takes a deep dive into one of construction's most persistent myths: that the baseline schedule is a reliable plan. Drawing from real project failures and recoveries, he explains what separates a schedule that guides decisions from one that gathers dust.


Key Topics:

  • - Why baseline schedules become fiction by week 3
  • - The difference between schedule updates and schedule management
  • - XER files and what they actually tell you
  • - How subs can use schedule data as leverage

    • Timestamps:

  • - 00:00 — Introduction
  • - 04:00 — The baseline myth
  • - 15:20 — Updates vs. management
  • - 26:00 — Reading XER data
  • - 34:00 — Using schedule data as leverage
  • - 36:30 — Closing & CTA

    • Footnotes

    1. AACE International Recommended Practice No. 52R-06
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