Plus-Delta

Plus: Great engagement by people in the room; Having a small, focused group; Consistent thinking; Participation by engineer experienced with pull planning in design. Delta: Shorten meeting; Build more experience among team members; Have experienced people from other projects provide feedback.

Plus: Video connections between sites worked flawlessly. Delta: Start meeting on time; End meeting on time.

Plus: The make ready focus on work beginning in week 6; Raising awareness of missing materials being responsible for delayed work; The meeting is keeping on pace with the planned agenda better; The shirt worn by the millwork foreman. Delta: Silence all cell phones during the meeting.

Plus: Helps the core group more quickly adopt Lean practices; Daily connection to Lean practices; Having a sideline coach help the team. Delta: Have the same coach be on the call every day, even if that means skipping a day and combining two lessons on one day; Encourage more people on the team to call

Plus: Meeting started and ended on time; Team defined the use of an issues ‘parking lot’; Team restrained themselves from off-topic discussions. Delta: Team will work on understanding the weekly planning process better; Team will improve reporting on percent plan complete and variances; Team will re-pull the design phase plan.

Plus: Group participation; Explanations of Lean concepts; Activities and simulations; Agenda; Interactive and comfortable nature of session; Opportunity to meet others in the enterprise; Lunch. Delta: Start on time; Serve coffee in the morning; Create equal number of people at each table; Design material to match background of participants; Provide take-away materials such as cards

Plus: Meeting started on time and completed early; participation by new foreman during meeting; The low number of open constraints. Delta: Provide coffee at meeting.

Plus: Good participation by foreman new to project; Team raised important constraints; Good Lean ideas were discussed to aid with continuous improvement. Delta: End meeting on time.

Plus: Meeting started on time; Technology worked as needed; Excellent questions and participant interaction; Software application presentation was very good. Delta: End meeting on time; Encourage more leadership team member to attend.

Plus: The addition of a second job box with building information model available to building crews; Foremen using iPad as reference tool during planning presentation; Ability to catch up to meeting agenda during weekly plan review. Delta: Everyone be on time for start of meeting.