Comments on: Making Do, A Novel Distinction of Waste http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2004/08/22/391/ The magazine for the project age Fri, 16 May 2008 03:02:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Sven Bertelsen http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2004/08/22/391/#comment-247 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2004/08/22/391/#comment-247 Lauri is right when talking manufacturing. Stop-th-line is a well known example of not making do from Toyota. But making do is often nesessary when dealing with complex and dynamic systems such as construction. Take for instance the weather, which is not always optimal. In complex projects there often are windows of opportunities, which much be used even at costs. I feel we need to understand the condcept of waste in not-ordered systems much deeper. Of cause we should establish penalties for making do when we could have established better conditions by timely action, but as the physicist Per Bak stated: the propability of something improbable happes is very high, because so much improbabble can happen. Sven Lauri is right when talking manufacturing. Stop-th-line is a well known example of not making do from Toyota.

But making do is often nesessary when dealing with complex and dynamic systems such as construction. Take for instance the weather, which is not always optimal.
In complex projects there often are windows of opportunities, which much be used even at costs.

I feel we need to understand the condcept of waste in not-ordered systems much deeper.

Of cause we should establish penalties for making do when we could have established better conditions by timely action, but as the physicist Per Bak stated: the propability of something improbable happes is very high, because so much improbabble can happen.

Sven

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