Meet Franco Jacquinto, CEO and founder of Ipsum, a scheduling and planning software company that integrates Takt planning and prioritizes getting workers home on time. Jason interviews Franco about why the scheduling process is broken, how Ipsum connects high-level planning all the way down to workers in the field, and why construction companies need to stop hiding behind NDAs and closed doors. Franco shares his journey from dropping out of college to spending a year on a construction project and falling in love with the industry. Jason breaks down his integrated control system: Takt plan → phase planning → make ready look aheads → weekly work planning → afternoon foreman huddles → morning worker huddles. The message is clear: CPM is dethroned, transparency wins, and it's time to challenge everything we're doing.
What you'll learn in this episode:
Why Ipsum matters: Scheduling software that integrates Takt planning, connects the master schedule to workers, and gets people home on time
Franco's background: Dropped out of college, spent a year on a construction project, built software for 21st-century scheduling
The broken process: CPM → Excel spreadsheets → messy pull planning sessions → engineers wasting hours updating data instead of thinking
Jason's integrated control system: Takt governs the project → phase planning → make ready → weekly work planning → afternoon foreman huddles → morning worker huddles
Why afternoon foreman huddles work: Foremen plan the next day in the afternoon, giving them overnight to prepare materials and logistics
Franco's challenge: Stop doing the same things with different tools—challenge your process, open your doors, involve everyone in planning
Jason's war on CPM: It's all-out war against CPM—it needs to be dethroned, and the book is coming to prove it
Challenge what you're doing. Be open to new things. Construction companies need to open up and stop acting like their spreadsheet is NASA-level proprietary.
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