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WIP is/has been a non-issue for me because I don't have any construction work that takes weeks or months to complete.
I sit for hours and hours with a kink in my neck entering time sheets so that I can re-price maintenance properties that aren't profitable, and so I can bang my head against the wall when I see all the time wasted loading and unloading, travelling between properties, and fiddling around with equipment delay problems.
With construction jobs I'm trying to track how long tasks take within each job and then be able to use that info to better estimate the labour hours on future estimates. It seems I invariably underestimate the time needed to complete almost every installation job that we do and that is a source of constant frustration. When each new job is new and different it can be tough to accurately estimate labour, but I'm starting to do jobs similar to ones I've done before so eventually I'll start to improve my accuracy in bidding.
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