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Exploring project productivity

Exploring project productivity

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Exploring project productivity

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- [Instructor] I want to explore some of those problems that plague us on the project and affect that overall time from beginning of construction to hand-off to the project owner. Actually, I listed many of those issues in a previous episode already. And those included things like delays caused by requests for information, delays caused by changes, and delays caused by the time we add into the schedule, either directly or indirectly as a buffer in between the individual trades or tasks. But in addition to this list, we can also add things like poor planning and scheduling, poor subcontractor management, ineffective supply chain management, and a communications process that hinders progress instead of helping it. Okay, that's a big list and it's a lot of criticism, but I really do think it really should tell us that we have to start being up front about the things we may not do so well. Now I want to focus on that last…

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