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Custom Tool Rollout
Here’s a pattern I keep running into when I talk to companies about their Bluebeam setup:
Someone on the team put real time into building a custom Tool Chest. It’s solid, for them. Organized around how they work.
And then nobody else uses it.
Not because it’s bad. But because it was built around one person’s workflow, not around how the whole team actually works. So when it lands on everyone else’s machine, it doesn’t quite fit, and people go back to whatever they were doing before.
The challenge isn’t building a Tool Chest. It’s building one that belongs to everyone.
For those of you who’ve tried to get your team using shared Tool Sets consistently, how did you approach it? Was it a one-person build that you rolled out, or did you get the team involved in designing it? What worked, what didn’t?
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Points: 33,609Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt IIII
At this point 2 of the 3 of us on our estimating team are using the custom tools that I have built. This is working well for the 2 of us that are using them. Still trying to get our head estimator to use them… 😎
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Points: 29,420Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt II
Sometimes it just takes one time-saving feature to blow their mind and convert them. The trouble is figuring out which one will trigger them. When I was a BIM Manager transitioning 70 employees across 7 offices to 3D design, I would print 3D images from my models, and purposely leave them on the printer to hear people talk about them and get excited. 🤣
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Points: 18,978Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Blue Belt III
All three members of my team use the same toolchest.
They’re designed around our Estimating software so its pretty critical that everyone is using the customized tool chests.-
Points: 29,420Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt II
What I know of your system Doug, the integration is so fine-tuned, they couldn’t function unless they completely committed to the workflow.
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