1. P6 for scheduling,
2. homegrown crap for estimates (under the guise of if you can't dazzle them with brilliance...)
3. Word/Excel for schedule recovery plans
4. Word for PDL responses
5. Legalzoom for when somebody forgot to ready the specs
6. TexAgs for time mismanagement
7. Word for updating your resume when, after the job is awarded, the lead estimator tells the PM, and I quote, "I sure hope you can build it for that!"
8. Revit, NavisWorks, and #2 red pencils for document control
9. Sharpie Super for marking documents with "USE THIS SET ONLY!!!"
10. FedEx for shipping #9 to a site so a construction manager will stop using a two month old set of drawings.
11. Outlook for forwarding emails with PDF's of #9 to said CM.
12. Outlook for emailing said CM to remind him he requested and was the first to receive said updated drawings.
2. homegrown crap for estimates (under the guise of if you can't dazzle them with brilliance...)
3. Word/Excel for schedule recovery plans
4. Word for PDL responses
5. Legalzoom for when somebody forgot to ready the specs
6. TexAgs for time mismanagement
7. Word for updating your resume when, after the job is awarded, the lead estimator tells the PM, and I quote, "I sure hope you can build it for that!"
8. Revit, NavisWorks, and #2 red pencils for document control
9. Sharpie Super for marking documents with "USE THIS SET ONLY!!!"
10. FedEx for shipping #9 to a site so a construction manager will stop using a two month old set of drawings.
11. Outlook for forwarding emails with PDF's of #9 to said CM.
12. Outlook for emailing said CM to remind him he requested and was the first to receive said updated drawings.