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Old foreman's spreadsheet advice still holds up after 9 years
Back in 2015 my foreman in Phoenix told me to track every change order in a single shared sheet, no exceptions. We had a dispute last month that would've cost us $18k if I hadn't kept that habit. Anyone else get saved by an old school process nobody talks about anymore?
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umathompson1mo ago
So when you say single shared sheet, was it literally one tab everyone could edit live, or did you have some kind of lock so only one person could touch it at a time? I ask because we tried a shared sheet on my last job and it turned into a mess fast, two guys overwriting each other and nobody trusting the numbers after a while. The part I really want to know is how you got your crew to actually log stuff right when it happened instead of scribbling it on a napkin and promising to enter it later. Did your foreman have a rule about who was allowed to write in it, or was it wide open for anybody? That seems like the make or break piece, because the sheet itself is easy, it's getting people to use it that kills you.
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