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Wasted $400 on a fancy project management app before figuring out what we actually needed
I just had to tell someone about this. 6 months ago I got sold on this cloud-based construction management platform. Sounded amazing in the demo. Real-time updates, automated scheduling, all that stuff. I signed up for the team plan, $400 a month. Three months later and half my crew still couldn't figure out how to log their hours. The other half kept complaining it was slower than the old spreadsheet system we had. Finally I just canceled it and went back to a free kanban board plus a shared Google Sheet. Now everything runs smoother and costs nothing. Has anyone else here gotten sucked into a big software purchase that just didn't match how your guys actually work on site?
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king.robin6d ago
My old boss did the same thing with a $600 a month software called ProContractor. The sales guy made it sound like we'd save hours every day. But the learning curve was steep and the guys on site just ignored it. They went back to their paper logs and texting photos to the office. We ended up losing a month of data before someone noticed. Simple tools that everyone already knows how to use are usually the better bet. Fancy features don't help if nobody touches them.
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young.nora6d ago
Whole point of tools is they actually get used, not just look good on paper.
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harperg766d ago
My buddy’s company rolled out a pricey CRM system and everyone complained for months until one guy figured out a way to automate the boring stuff. After that it became the only way they worked. Sometimes you just gotta push past the learning curve and let the tool prove itself.
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