Looking for Waste in All the Wrong Places

Now that a couple weeks have passed since the Lean Construction Institute Congress finished it’s worthwhile reflecting on what was learned. One valuable session, because the content resulted from well crafted reflection and ideas, was the presentation by Chauncey Bell and Anne Miller Wednesday afternoon entitled Looking for Waste in All the Wrong Places. Here’s what

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No Detail Too Small?

Mitch Miorelli from Disney is wearing his Disney name badge while presenting to the LCI Congress. My guess this is more than a nice touch as it represents Paul O’Neill’s point earlier today that there are no unimportant priorities.

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Is Design Really Iterative?

A common understanding of the building design process is iterative, and therefore difficult to plan as a linear process. It may be time to challenge that understanding. When work is performed out of sequence the process of completing that work becomes iterative. It’s time  to begin asking if design processes are iterative because we are

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Excellent Crowd at Second Day of Lean Training

A record number of building design and construction professionals participated in a full slate of training sessions. Above is a group participating in the Villego Last Planner Experience session on Tuesday. Other sessions included Target Value Design, AGC Lean training modules, Choosing by Advantages, Root Cause Analysis, Factory Physics for Delivering Projects, and Shingo  –

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