Plus: Good facility; Rhythm and balance of workshop; Real world examples; Activities and simulations; Having two people facilitate the workshop; Good high level look at Lean; Good amount of material; Built trust and understanding among the project team. Delta: Obtain 100% attendance by all invited; Provide more advance information on the purpose and content of […]
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Plus: The team is making better use of the look-ahead plan; the visual indicator for the team to cut short tangental discussion is working. Delta: Solve the problem of meetings running longer than planned; More team members to provide more complete information on the weekly work plan; Work on ways to improve weekly attendance when
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You’re smart, and used to being the person on the job site that can be counted on to figure it all out. Your heroics can be counted on to get the project done, even in an environment that constantly throws new challenges at the project. And for many of you, your self identity is invested
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Plus: Clarified role of the leadership group; Quality of conversation by all participants; New members of the group are participating fully. Delta: Improve ability to manage agenda and time; Develop actionable steps by end of meeting; Determine if people unable to participate regularly should be group members.
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Some teams make a practice of beginning their weekly coordination meetings by asking a few trivia questions. They are just hard enough to evoke a few funny wrong answers. After three questions people in the room are laughing and more relaxed then when they walked into the room. As a meeting leader your role is
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Plus: Meeting started and finished one time; Everyone is healthy; the team removed many constraints. Delta: Improve attendance by foremen or have missing foremen send substitutes; Improve the number of reported Lean improvements.
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The Plus-Delta is the practice of reflecting on experiences that added value to an event (pluses), and experiences that could have added value to that event but were missing (deltas). We focus on deltas as opposed to “negatives” as we are looking for an improvement that can be made and not a criticism. The practice
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There is something very simple your team can do that will make weekly planning meetings more effective. Take a look at the photo above. On the wall behind the foreman presenting his weekly plan are drawings of the building. The drawings are clearly marked with area designations and it is very easy for the team
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Respect for People is a fundamental Lean principle, yet easily misunderstood. While the following experience only scratches the surface of the principle it helps illustrate the direction the principle is taking us. While staying outside of Cleveland last week I had a few meals in the hotel restaurant. Each time I had the same server,
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We advocate Plus-Delta sessions after meetings as a helpful way to learn because it is a type of reflection designed to improve future meetings. But Plus-Deltas are also helpful for events other than meetings. Doing something out of the ordinary is always a good opportunity for reflection. Thanks to some generous sponsors I had the
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