What changes does my team need to adopt Takt Planning?
- September 25, 2025
- Blog
Adopting tax planning on your projects is an amazing adventure. Once your team starts seeing schedules in a time-by-location format, your macro-level takt plan becomes far more accessible. Everyone can see it, make strategic optimizations, and use it to guide look-ahead plans and weekly work plans in the field.
The first change your team needs is understanding where CPM fits in. CPM becomes your as-built schedule. On takt.com, we even have a download that explains how takt and CPM work together. It’s crucial for everyone to know that takt doesn’t replace CPM, it complements it.
Next, your scheduling team needs to be on board. Takt is here to support schedulers, not replace them. In fact, once takt is adopted, schedulers can focus on research, strategy, and working with project teams instead of repetitive button-clicking. I’ve never seen a CPM scheduler get fired because of takt; I’ve only seen them elevated.
Your team also needs to understand the takt production system itself. Reading the books, learning the standard operating system, and understanding steering and control are foundational. After that, training is essential. Whether you pay for it or not, free training is available on the Jason Schroeder YouTube channel. Just search for Takt Production System for Students to see the videos I’m constantly posting to help teams understand takt.
Implementation on job sites is the third crucial step. For a couple of months, your team needs to actively walk the field with the takt plan, seeing how it guides daily work. Teams must not be afraid to use takt alone or integrate it with CPM if needed.
Two major mistakes can derail adoption. First, if you don’t gather general superintendents for weekly meetings to scale and coordinate with their teams, implementation struggles. Second, if you skip widescale training for everyone using takt, adoption will fail. Avoid these mistakes, and 18 months later, your projects will be more on time, more profitable, and your teams will be happier.
Key Takeaway: Successful adoption of takt planning requires understanding CPM integration, supporting your scheduling team, consistent training, and on-site implementation. Do this, and your projects will run smoother, on time, and more profitably.