Dawgs! Over the past few jobs we have run the Pull Plan both analog (Sticky Notes and Boards on the wall) and online (we used Touch Plan). Analog is great because of the natural conversations that happen when the foremen are up at the boards, updating their commitments and bumping shoulders with each other - the "hum" of conversation in a room during our sessions was organic and the lifeblood of the job. Then we needed 2 assistant level guys spending 3-4 hours on a Friday collecting data, entering it on a spreadsheet, chasing foremen down for variance reasons or "Hey you haven't updated your plan yet". Ultimately it was a chaotic way to get the "Learning" part of our LPS done. When we utilized Touch Plan, all of that worry went away because the program tracks all that for you, forces people to put variance reasons on any commitment that changes its finish date, tracks PPC in any way you could want and pumps out pretty reports. The problem is that "hum" in the room during foreman's meetings was gone. We tried to replicate it throughout the job and while we still had an effective pull plan, it wasn't nearly as effective as analog. I am wondering if others have had this same experience and if anyone would be interested in a program that can pump out statistics based on a picture of your analog boards? Would like to discuss this a bit further with you all tomorrow but please give me some feedback!

Team - I wanted to share the video of the #olddawgs presentation at Yale University for The International Society for Emotional Intelligence! Feedback is always welcome. While the entire world is focused on AI, Old Dawgs know that EI will be the difference moving forward!! This presentation is on the Leadership Via Transparency exercise that we are going to be offering to all members beginning in September! I look forward to learning with y'all... Huge thank you to @Jeff Reilly and @Brent Darnell for joining me on this crazy journey!!! I realized on this trip that if we are ONLY hanging around with the LEAN construction crowd, then we are playing small ball!! We have work to do Old Dawgs. Let's goooooo! Built by those who do, and shared for those who will!

Hey yall! We have a webinar with Lean Construction Blog X Old Dawg Builders' Community this Thursday in place of our Old Dawgs Learning New Tricks. Here is a link to sign up: https://leanconstructionblog.com/webinar-36.html I plan to send out a calendar invite to everyone as soon as I get the presenter link from The Lean Construction Blog folks. My one question for the team is: how much construction experience do you have?! Please drop it in the comments so we can tout it to the attendees! We have to be well over 1,000 years of experience in this group! #sharingconstructionwisdom #grateful