What’s New at LeanProject
fxtqkaih2016-09-27T07:00:59-05:00Many of you have known us here at Lean Project Consulting, Inc. for a long time. We’ve been supporting your projects and your companies since 1999. We’ve worked on projects ...
Can’t Get Any Leaner?
fxtqkaih2016-08-29T10:34:43-05:00A project team we coach requests that foremen include a short report on a Lean initiative with their weekly plan declarations. One of the foremen reported that they “can’t get ...
Keep Your Meetings on Time with a Countdown Clock
fxtqkaih2016-08-26T10:20:06-05:00The Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center team uses a countdown clock to help the team keep the meetings running according to a timed agenda. They ...
Seeing is Understanding
fxtqkaih2016-08-22T10:47:40-05:00A gentle reminder and some examples to help see how teams can make use of visual communication to increase understanding across a project team. To the left is an important ...
Superintendents and Trust
fxtqkaih2016-08-10T08:44:00-05:00You'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 ...
When Trivia is Not Trivial
fxtqkaih2016-08-08T07:29:45-05:00Some 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 ...
Making the Plus-Delta Practice Work
fxtqkaih2016-08-04T07:53:28-05:00The 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). ...
Use Drawings to Support Weekly Planning Conversations
fxtqkaih2016-08-03T07:38:31-05:00There 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 ...
Updating 6-Week Make Ready Plans
fxtqkaih2016-06-27T15:10:33-05:00It is vital that Last Planners work each week from current 6-week make ready plans. For project teams using P6 or MS Project to document and progress their ...
International Group for Lean Construction Meets in Boston – July 2016
fxtqkaih2016-06-20T15:02:53-05:00The July gathering of Lean design and construction professionals provides participants the opportunity to hear about lessons learned in AEC practice, discuss AEC project challenges and solutions, learn about the latest ...