How to Standardize Progressing Across Projects with Miles Haynes
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Challenge
A midsize general contractor asks, “Can you build a rock-solid, repeatable schedule-progressing program across every one of our projects?” They juggle different superintendents, uneven data, and scattered PDFs. They want one standard and a clear path to improve it. On the hot seat: Miles Haynes, Senior Scheduler at Oakland Construction and creator of Stride.
Stride replaces those smudged PDFs with a browser-based interface that mirrors the familiar P6 layout, lets supers tap actual dates on the fly, and feeds a clean XML back to the master schedule, no late-night data entry, no guesswork.
Key Takeaways
Daily huddles are gold when they surface roadblocks early, assign clear owners, and capture progress in minutes rather than days.
Granular beats vague. Break activities below 20 days so “done” or “not done” is obvious, and duration percent complete stops fooling you.
Accountability scales through visibility. Enterprise dashboards showing “updates due vs. updates done” nudge every superintendent to pull their weight.
One schedule, many views. Keep level-4 and level-5 tasks in the master file, then slice tailored look-aheads for field teams, no duplicate schedules, no drift.
Tech should vanish into the workflow. Stride’s point solution saves schedulers from re-keying dates and frees them to solve real sequencing problems.
Plenty of methods work... only when they’re thought through. Any progressing setup can succeed if roles, data flows, and follow-up actions are crystal clear.
Tactical Takeaway
Tomorrow morning, carry a printed three-day look-ahead into the site trailer. Circle every task that slipped yesterday. Ask each foreman for the single obstacle blocking them today, jot it beside the task, and commit to clearing the top obstacle by noon. Repeat this loop for one week; you’ll force honest progress data and spark immediate action.
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