Beyond Deadlines

Let's explore tactics, strategies, and frameworks to elevate Planning and Scheduling leaders in Construction.Dive deep with Micah, a planning and scheduling visionary, and Greg Lawton, an astrophysicist-turned-CEO, as they unravel construction planning and scheduling. Whether you're a new planner or a veteran looking to advance your career, we offer insights that will take you to the next level in the Construction Industry.Our episodes are short and packed with advice you can use right away.Come join us on Beyond Deadlines. Your future is just one episode away.

Beyond Deadlines is a business podcast hosted by Micah Piippo and Greg Lawton, with 107 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Micah Piippo and Greg Lawton hosts Beyond Deadlines, a business show with 107 episodes published.

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  How Schedulers Turn Performance Reviews Into Promotions

  May 12, 202622 minS0

  <p>In this episode we dive into performance reviews.</p><p>The ChallengeYou're a senior scheduler running three data center schedules for one client. Your manager calls a quarterly performance review. You're great in P6, you hit your reports, and you assume the conversation will write itself. It won't. In this episode, I play the manager and Greg Lawton plays the senior scheduler to show what most schedulers get wrong in that room and how to turn the review into your next promotion.</p><p>Continue Learning</p><p>Check out our book The Critical Path Career: How to Advance...

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  The Exact Year Manual Scheduling Dies

  Apr 29, 202648 minS0

  <p>In this episode we dive into the future of construction scheduling.</p><p>The Challenge</p><p>I have been thinking a lot about where this profession is headed. Not in a panicked way. In a curious way. So I sat down with Greg Lawton on the Beyond Deadlines podcast and we tried to do something most people avoid: pick actual years for when the manual parts of scheduling stop being a human job. We worked backwards from a fully autonomous construction future to right now in 2026. What we landed on was less about robots and more about how...

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  What Schedulers Must Know About Primavera P6 vs OPC (Oracle Primavera Cloud)

  Mar 18, 202646 minS0

  <p>In this episode we dive into scheduling software Oracle Primavera P6 and Oracle Primavera Cloud.</p><p>The ChallengeNearly every major construction project in the world has touched Primavera P6 at some point. It is the godfather of scheduling software. But Oracle has been quietly building something entirely different -- Oracle Primavera Cloud -- and it is not just P6 with a web browser. That distinction matters, and most schedulers don't fully understand it yet. We sat down with Chad Wattendorf, Director of Product Management for P6 and OPC at Oracle, and Garrett Harley, Director of Product Marketing for...

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  Draft P6 Progress Reports in 60 Seconds

  Feb 24, 202650 minS0

  <p>In this episode we dive into Progress Reports</p><p>The Challenge</p><p>You know the moment. That message lands. Your project manager needs a status update on the project and they need it right now. Not in two weeks when it's supposed to happen. Right now.</p><p>You have an 11,000 activity schedule. A critical path that keeps shifting. A structural steel delay throwing everything off. And zero minutes to spare.</p><p>Usually this means three hours buried in P6. Copying data to Excel. Building out reports. Attaching baselines, unattaching baselines, running analysis. All just to...

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  How to Automate Progress Tracking with Reality Capture

  Feb 3, 20261h 3mS0

  <p>In this episode we dive into Automated Progress Tracking.</p><p>The Challenge</p><p>Walking the job site with a clipboard. Sitting at a desk while a superintendent reads numbers off an Excel spreadsheet. Logging vague "days remaining" into P6. This is how most teams still update their schedules. It's slow, it's surface level, and it's not grounded in any measurable reality.</p><p>On the latest episode of Beyond Deadlines, I sat down with Brady Mercer, who leads planning and scheduling at JE Dunn Construction, and Amir Berman , VP of Industry Transformation at Buildots . We went deep...

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