A Good Investment
I am always talking up and bragging about HCSS Tech Support. If you want to be a power user of any HCSS software product you have to be calling Tech Support with your questions. But sometimes, the question crosses the line from a technical question…
A Better Path for Implementation
Most companies that implement HeavyBid go with the model of gathering the data necessary to set up HeavyBid and then just wait until the trainer arrives at the office before even opening up the program. There are more proactive ways that will accelerate the process…
HeavyBid Implementation-the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
This blog is intended for both companies with a new HeavyBid implementation in the future but also existing users who need to train new estimators. This is more or less a brain dump on what I have seen work and what has been a dismal…
Revised One Page HeavyBid Information Sheet
I just revised my one-page HeavyBid cheat sheet. I find it useful for new trainings especially when someone asks for the third time “what does the equipment code start with?”. Keeps me sane. You might find it useful for your estimating team. LINK
Summary Screen – Update Settings
To start off the Year 2022 why not take a look at the default settings in the Summary Screen for Master Estimate you are going to use for the new year’s estimates? So often when I am in a client’s master estimate they really haven’t…
Estimating course on LinkedIn Reviewed
*Written by my son and employee whom I refer to as Minion (William Nix). I found Christopher Randall’s construction courses on LinkedIn. His beginner course is approximately 45 minutes long and broken up into three sections: Learning Construction Estimating, Construction Estimating Takeoff, and Construction Estimating…
Training Value: Flying with an untrained pilot
Pretend for a minute that you are a CEO of a large company (and maybe you are) with a company jet. One day you join the pilot in the co-pilots seat and begin asking him questions about all the various switches and knobs and their function….
Display Option-Don’t Show Resources in View Panel
New users have a tendency click on every drill down “+” symbol they see. In the Tree View on the view side you have the option (user preference) to now allow resources to be displayed in the view side of the screen. Here is the issue….
Attendees for HeavyBid Training – Some Thoughts
I am sometimes asked who should attend the HeavyBid training sessions? Some companies want to have everyone who could remotely be associated with HeavyBid to attend the training. The problem with this approach is that I have to teach estimating concepts along with HeavyBid thus…
How Many Days of Training are Needed?
I have one goal when I train a company. That is the estimators I train will be using HeavyBid when I leave and will continue to do so. The goal is not to show every feature of HeavyBid but to show enough and practice enough…
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