Plus: Diversity of panel; Common themes from presenters; All presenters live Lean; Others stepping in for absent member. Delta: Add a designer on panel; Coordinate common themes to leave more time for questions; Seat panel along the broad side of room for more connection to participants; Provide a handout; End on time.
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The following quote in a company newsletter is from a client praising the company (name withheld to protect the bulk thinkers). “It is hard to estimate the number of after-hour texts and weekend phone calls which (XYZ Company) quickly and professionally responded to.” Lean team members often report that after their first Lean / Last Planner project
There was a short and unfinished conversation regarding accountability at a recent meeting. Many people are attracted to the reliable promising component of the weekly work planning by last planners because they see the weekly work plan as a tool for keeping people accountable. Accountable for what? The commitment they are making to others on
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A recent report from RHR International asserts that the best boards confront cultural issues and tendencies head on. The top factors that directors most often cited as contributing to the making of a great board were the qualities of boardroom dialogue and debate (88%) and the ability to ask the tough questions of management (77%).
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Plus: Better understand challenge of building this part of the project; Pizza. Delta: Issue a team contact list so trades can contact each other directly; Prepare pull planning tickets ahead of the work session.
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Plus: Weekly work plan task definition discussion; Making workflow plan document available; Team being able to freely raise concerns. Delta: Use Last Planner agenda; Have Last Planner agenda available to team; All team members arrive on time for start of meeting.
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Without thinking a superintendent announces to the foremen on a project team to not plan on any vacation next summer. That’s how people who work on school renovation projects have been conditioned to think – and work. There is a limited amount of time between when students leave campus at the end of the school
Ed Catmull, one of the co-founders of Pixar, wrote in Creativity, Inc. “Early on, all of our movies suck. Pixar films are not good at first, and our job is to make them… go, as I say, ‘from suck to non-suck.’” That’s a healthy attitude to have toward project work plans. It’s not a case that
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There will plenty of good sessions to choose from next week at the LCI Congress in Chicago. Four of them I can recommend – two because I have seen the material and spoken with the presenters, and two because I am familiar with the projects. Wednesday at 9:10 – Cleveland Clinic Cancer Building – Building Lean
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My eleven-year old daughter introduced me to the world of MAPs – multi-animator projects. Attached to this post is an example – the OC stands for “original content.” MAPs are short collaborative animations created by many different animators. MAPs are usually made to a song that has been separated into short segments, ranging from 2 to
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