A remodeling job gets estimated at 112 working days. It finishes at 368.

This spring, production managers in six Remodelers Advantage Production Manager Roundtable (PMRT) groups put their schedule numbers side by side. Inside a single group, one company was slipping about one job in ten. Another was slipping more than half. Same kind of market, same economy. A gap that size comes from how a company runs.

In this solo episode, Greg Woleck walks through what the numbers showed about schedule slip (finishing late) and grip (finishing early), and what the best production managers do to hold the date they promised.

In this episode:

- Why anything more than 2% off the promised duration, in either direction, is a warning sign

- Why finishing early isn't the win it feels like

- The six reasons jobs slip, and why m ...