8-Week Sprint Schedule Cut Our Carry Costs—Steal This Template?

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I keep seeing projects bleed cash because timelines are fuzzy. We started running 8-week sprints with defined milestones (demo, rough-ins, punch-list previews). Latest flip finished 20 days early—a $2,400 interest savings.
Happy to share the Gantt-style template if folks are interested. What other tricks are you using to keep contractors on clock? Thinking about adding a Friday walkthrough bonus for hitting weekly goals—anyone tried something similar?

Peter Mckernan · Answer

Bonuses are always better than doing a penalty.. That inspires the contractors to do it quicker and better.. That is a solid move..

1. If contractor is not getting material, try getting material shipped to project if people are there every day, decreases drive time for materials and slows the project

2. Have a templet for the stuff you will be doing on materials so you can order it right away once you close, no delays on materials (mainly focused for finish materials).

3. No dump runs, all in big roll off for trash.. Some people seem to like a dump run to get things offloaded, the rolloff is way better and saves travel time

4. Damaged material, be sure to change on the fly if material in shipping gets damaged and you need to pick something else out instead so that it does not slow down the project.

Eric Pagan · Answer

I would appreciate your Gannt Chart as well

Tyrone Marson · Answer

Awesome! I would love to see the Gantt chart.

Andy Sabisch · Answer

Always interested in tools to better track / manage jobs . . . . appreciate the offer, would appreciate a copy

Dave Kush · Answer

I would like to check out the gant chart.

Kevin Ivey · Answer

would definitely appreciate the gannt chart your using.

I GC my projects and do 40-70% of the work myself but supplement with subs for big labor intensive pieces in order to hit roughly 8 weeks.

TIA

8-Week Sprint Schedule Cut Our Carry Costs—Steal This Template?

8-Week Sprint Schedule Cut Our Carry Costs—Steal This Template?

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