{"id":4670,"date":"2026-02-12T12:07:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T12:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/?p=4670"},"modified":"2026-02-12T17:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T17:54:07","slug":"check-lists-in-heavybid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/check-lists-in-heavybid\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Lists in HeavyBid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Estimating is complicated. Keeping estimating teams is not just a challenge; it can be a nightmare. Checklists can tame workflows and prevent errors. A book I read long ago, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Checklist Manifesto:How to Get Things Right<\/span> by Atul Gawande, who is a doctor (it is a great read by the way), really reinforces the need for checklists in today&#8217;s complicated world. He pioneered surgical checklists that have likely saved countless lives from preventable errors. Estimating, especially for large projects, is complex. Watch the Youtube video I did a while back on this feature and download my sample spreadsheet and revise to fit your company&#8217;s process. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Suggestion: Once you are using this feature, make it more accessible to your team. Have each member add Checklists to their Favorites bar in HeavyBid. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/LqRAX4xSMXA?si=RgzvshS_YJshn1gI\">Link Youtube Video<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ewksol-my.sharepoint.com\/:x:\/p\/anix\/IQBiF_gYnx7ESaPpnWSUiKfDAU27wGZ6kahSlqDn4LXI-P4?e=dmPOAO\">Link Spreadsheet<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you want to make this really accessible in HeavyBid add it to your Favorites. Here is a video I did on this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/HWvfdUj8onk\">Link Favorites Video<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Estimating is complicated. Keeping estimating teams is not just a challenge; it can be a nightmare. Checklists can tame workflows and prevent errors. A book I read long ago, The Checklist Manifesto:How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande, who is a doctor (it is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-try-new-things","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4670"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4677,"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670\/revisions\/4677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}