Here a good example of stitching several drawings together to provide the project team with a clear illustration of work areas. Yes, a comprehensive plan was available at a smaller scale, however in a weekly or workflow planning meeting this larger scale drawing allows the team to discuss work more clearly. If the illustration a team […]
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Plus: Content and experience provided a lot of learning. Delta: Condense into a 4-hour workshop; Have all trades on site participate.
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One of the differences between my daughter’s current 6th and past 5th grade experiences is that now in addition to periodic tests her teachers are also giving frequent quizzes. I asked how she liked this, and was surprised to hear that she liked it a lot. Her reason was that it forced her to learn
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A comment from a construction management firm executive was relayed to me recently. He had reportedly stated that there was nothing his company could learn from anybody working at another company. Is the “not invented here” syndrome alive and well in the building industry? Hopefully not, as it is antithetic to a Lean philosophy. Imagine an
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Often it is the construction manager that takes the lead in introducing Lean practices to the building project. That means the project is in the construction phase before the first Last Planner System Weekly Coordination Meeting is held. Even so, it is important to understand that the Weekly Coordination Meeting is a project meeting. That
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For those familiar with the Villego Last Planner System simulation, the above time lapse shows a team of nine attempt to build a house from LEGO bricks in 10 minutes. It took this team 25 minutes in Round 1.
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The Last Planner System Weekly Work Plan is often mistaken for an accountability tool. Stop it! The Weekly Work Plan serves two important purposes that have nothing to do with accountability. First, it documents the promises team members make to each other regarding handoffs from one operation to another, and provides a mechanism for reviewing
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Plus: Good attendance; Participation by Integrated Project Delivery Design Assist trades; Ability for team to “ask why” and challenge assumptions about proposed planning commitments; Identified important items that need to be addressed; Able to achieve project milestones. Delta: Need to enforce a hard start and stop to planning session; Schedule initial project planning sessions to
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Plus: Healthy team working relationships; Leadership of the work coordination conversation; Leadership of the Weekly Work Plan development conversation. Delta: Improve the level of component team planning by: Breaking long duration tasks on phase plan into small chunks Identifying for all weekly plan tasks which phase plan tasks they help complete Identifying the Phase Plan Work Constrained on the Constraint Log
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Plus: Holding Core Group Coordination meeting after Component Team meetings is proving extremely productive. Delta: Improve meeting time management.
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