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Issue 3 · April 9, 2026 Your weekly plan says the drywall crew starts Tuesday. The electricians are supposed to rough in by Thursday. The plumber promised to finish overhead before anyone else moves in. By Friday, none of it happened the way it was drawn up. Not because people didn't try — but because no one stopped to ask whether those commitments were actually reliable before they went on the schedule. This is the problem Glenn Ballard and Greg Howell set out to solve when

ISSUE 2 · MARCH 26, 2026 Everyone on the project is busy. The parking lot is full at 6 AM. Every trade has crews on site. And somehow, the schedule is slipping. That disconnect — maximum activity, minimum progress — is the problem Efrat Goldratt-Ashlag set out to explain in Goldratt’s Rules of Flow (2021), a book that takes her father Eliyahu Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints and distills it into a set of rules for how work should move through any system, including a construc

Systems, Not People ISSUE 1 · MARCH 12, 2026 Here’s a pattern you might recognize. The same problems keep showing up project after project — submittals fall behind, buyout drags, coordination meetings turn into firefighting sessions — and every time, you end up solving it the same way: longer hours, harder conversations, more pressure on the same people. The faces change but the problems don’t. That’s not a people problem. That’s a system telling you something. W. Edwards Dem