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The ConTech Exec

Nobody Reads Your Gantt Chart

· 40 min · Season 3 Episode 2644

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Projects don't blow up in one big moment. They drift. The master schedule says one thing, the job site is doing another, and nobody finds out until somebody walks into the Monday meeting and starts shouting.
This week I sat down with Carlos Carvalho of Aphex, calling in from London. Carlos started out with Costain on Crossrail (the Elizabeth Line) and HS2. He found the same old spreadsheets running some of the biggest jobs in the world. So he and his founding team built a planning tool for the people actually building the job, not the people reporting on it.
We get into:

• Why a spreadsheet…

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