EP.4 Construction Innovation Podcast: Outbuild

Outbuild's Mike Wong on why construction scheduling is broken—how empowering the people closest to the work, tracking roadblocks early, and treating field crews like humans beats any 30,000-line P6 schedule built from a desk.

Prepare to explore:

  • Why legacy tools fail construction — how P6 and MS Project (a side project born from an eggs-benedict joke) became defaults that were never purpose-built for the field.
  • Empower the people closest to the work — why the crew with 150 years of combined, specific experience should plan the work, not someone planning from a desk.
  • Roadblocks and the three levels of planning — master schedule, look-ahead, and weekly commitments, plus tracking constraints in one place tied to the schedule.
  • Humans vs. AI in planning — why people still have to agree to do the work, and why AI is only as good as the structured field data behind it.
  • Making it cool to care — how culture, trust, and treating crews like humans drive more value than any tool, and why that's the real differentiator.
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