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Remote Scheduler Jobs, Stop Patching and Start Fixing, Forecasting the Future

Remote Scheduler Jobs, Stop Patching and Start Fixing, Forecasting the Future

Micah Piippo
May 05, 2025

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On any given day it usually takes less time to manage a problem than to solve it.

Greg McKeown, Effortless

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Stop babysitting the problem. Fix it.

Most schedulers manage broken logic like it’s a full-time job.

They babysit out-of-sequence work
Nurse critical paths that are no longer critical
Patch gaps with constraints and hope it holds

But here’s the uncomfortable truth:

It usually takes less time to manage a problem than to solve it.

So we manage.

We ignore that level-of-effort activity behaving like a hammock.

We leave that open-ended milestone floating in space.

We adjust calendars instead of asking why the durations keep slipping.

Fixing it means going deep.

Fixing it means owning it—especially when no one’s asking you to.

Fixing it is what separates schedulers from leaders.

The next time you find a thorn in the schedule, don’t tape over it.

Pull it out.

Responding to Data Date Riders

Copy and paste this prompt into ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude.

Act as a meticulous Project Controls Specialist responsible for reviewing a schedule's health. Your task is to analyze a provided list of activities that are currently riding the data date, determine why they lack progress or logic, and suggest appropriate schedule adjustments by interpreting the activity names and their likely dependencies or work sequence.

Use this analysis to compose a professional, structured email to the project scheduler or project manager, outlining the issue, the reviewed activities, and clear recommendations for where each should be logically moved within the schedule to avoid riding the data date. For reference, previous successful emails included a table listing activity IDs, names, current issues, and recommended logic or predecessor relationships.

The format should include an introductory paragraph, a summary table of findings, and a polite closing with a call to action. The tone should be analytical, professional, and solution-oriented. Before you begin ask me 3 questions to help improve your answer.