The First Planner System®

The Text & Audio Book Companion to Elevating Pre-construction Planning

By: Jason Schroeder, Katie Schroeder, Kevin Rice

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Most construction projects don’t fail the way we think they do.

They don’t fail because crews didn’t work hard enough.

They don’t fail because people didn’t care.

And they don’t fail because “construction is just difficult.”

They fail because they were never set up to succeed.

In The First Planner System®, Jason Schroeder exposes the real problem behind missed schedules, blown budgets, burned-out teams, and chaotic jobsites: a broken planning system upstream. And more importantly, he gives the industry something it has been missing for decades—a complete, practical solution.

This book introduces the First Planner System®, the system that makes Last Planner® actually work. It moves planning upstream—before the chaos begins—and shows how to design projects so they flow instead of fight back.

Inside, you’ll learn how to:

• Eliminate chaos before it reaches the field
• Create flow, stability, and predictable outcomes
• Align design, procurement, and construction into one system
• Protect foremen and empower builders to succeed
• Build projects that are safer, more profitable, and actually enjoyable to run

This is not another scheduling method.

This is not another Lean tool.

This is a production operating system for construction.

If you’re tired of firefighting…

If you’re done watching good people struggle inside bad systems…

If you want to build projects that actually work…

This book will change how you plan—and how you lead—forever.

Because projects don’t go wrong.

They start wrong.