Plus-Delta

PLUS: Leaving time for a healthy discussion about how to organize the team. DELTA: Distribute the Lean Leadership Team outline with the agenda; Include a few more people on the team; Provide greater clarity on what Lean is about; Provide evidence from other teams that this process makes a difference.

PLUS: The team learned new information about how Last Planner is designed to work; The discussion about how to capture phase plans in a portable format. DELTA: Start to incorporate consultants and owner in weekly coordination meetings; Cover the entire agenda more comprehensively when training new Last Planner users.

PLUS: Attendance is strong; The meeting starts and ends on time. DELTA: Include a discussion of the constraint log; Determine how to make online plans and documents more available to trades.

PLUS: Starting meeting on time; Excellent group communication; New trade participated in meeting. DELTA: Find a way to end the meeting on time without compromising agenda items.

PLUS: Hands on work; Learning elements of Last Planner System; Level of participation. Delta: Turn off all phones; Find a way to shorten learning session; Spend more time explaining Lean and Last Planner terms.

PLUS: Strong participation by team; Discussion was on topic; Attendance was improved over recent meetings; Key information to stakeholders was published; Good discussion updating project Lean implementations; Good focus on communicating key leadership message. DELTA: Everyone needs to focus on one conversation.

PLUS: Understanding that architect needs to be engaged in more field walks; Material presented was appropriate; The hands-on simulation is consistent with the material presented; Learning about waste; Trade participation; Organizing sessions into three half-days; Good team building. DELTA: Send slides electronically via PDF instead of printed handouts; Secure consistent representation of the same people

PLUS: Exercises are user friendly and drive to a point; Concepts discussed can be applied to the real world; Good conversation. DELTA: Limit distractions by scheduling these sessions earlier in the project; Bring the trade project managers and superintendents into the Lean conversation early; Encourage more participation by project team members not present; Schedule sessions

PLUS: Hands on activities; Having fun outside normal work routine; Willingness of many trades to participate; An appreciation of how much thought goes into understanding all the work on a project; The need to have buy-in for teamwork to succeed; Exercises complement goals of CM team. DELTA: Improve attendance by all trade superintendents and foremen;

PLUS: Participants used LPS approach to complete simulation exercise close to their plan. DELTA: Incorporate video into simulation exercise to help participants study how they can further improve; Have all participants show up on time; Brief people who were unable to attend the earlier workshop days on the simulation more thoroughly; Bring additional people to