Project management
Billing dates, change orders, and notices, run as standards that hold without anyone chasing them.
Chapter 6 is step 06
The chapter explains the thinking. The step page is the working reference: what it depends on, what it feeds, and how to tell whether it's installed. Step 06 needs step 04 to be true first.
Before and after
What readers ask
What does chapter 6 of CONTROL cover?
Billing dates, change orders, and notices, run as standards that hold without anyone chasing them. It's chapter 6 of 8, and it maps to step 06 of the system.
Is there a template with this chapter?
Yes. Chapter 6 carries a QR code that opens the pm standards pack. The written standards your project managers follow so billing dates hold without you chasing them.
What has to be true before this chapter works?
Steps 04 come first: estimating system. Installing this one ahead of them produces numbers nobody trusts.
Should I read chapter 6 out of order?
You can. Chapter 6 sits between software and bookkeeping alignment and monthly cadence, and it reads on its own. Installing out of order is the part that doesn't work, because step 06 needs 04 to be true first.
Josh Luebker ran commercial construction projects before he ran the numbers behind them, on data centres, military bases, hospitals, and high-rises. He wrote CONTROL: The Construction Financial Operating System, which is an eight-step framework for commercial subcontractors, and it publishes on October 1, 2026. He is a master electrician who moved into the office and kept the field vocabulary.
Sulphur Prairie Operations LLC maintains the benchmark reference behind these figures. Every edition is reconciled against the newest CFMA survey release before it publishes here. Where a figure changes between editions, the older edition keeps its year in the title so a citation to it stays correct.