Comments on: Adopt Project Kaizen to Tap Ingenuity http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2005/12/05/566/ The magazine for the project age Fri, 15 Apr 2011 17:20:14 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Hal http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2005/12/05/566/comment-page-1/#comment-2009 Hal Mon, 05 Dec 2005 18:14:37 +0000 http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2005/12/04/566/#comment-2009 CPI and SPI can certainly trump other concerns. I've worked on defense projects where incentives were paid to the contractor based on CPI and SPI. As one of my colleagues says, "Incentives often have the effect of perverting behavior." It is up to each of us on projects to see that it doesn't happen. CPI and SPI can certainly trump other concerns. I’ve worked on defense projects where incentives were paid to the contractor based on CPI and SPI. As one of my colleagues says, “Incentives often have the effect of perverting behavior.” It is up to each of us on projects to see that it doesn’t happen.

]]> By: Mark at Swim http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2005/12/05/566/comment-page-1/#comment-2002 Mark at Swim Mon, 05 Dec 2005 10:44:16 +0000 http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2005/12/04/566/#comment-2002 Well done for tackling this subject Hal. I shall be very interested in the discussions. I like your idea of 'mindfulness' - anyone who has read about or practiced meditation techniques will recognise the concept of adopting an attitude of neutral obervation. I think the term elegantly captures what team members must do to ensure that improvement opportunities are recognised and acted on. I hope the discussions include the topic of personal motivation for project kaizen activity. I suspect that in typical projects where workers may feel that they are always a step behind the schedule, the fact that they personally may not stand to gain in the long term from any effort they expend in working out, testing and documenting better methods, may prevent them from doing so. Maybe your idea of a metric of the number of improvements will help, but how do we ensure that when the chips are down, CPI and/or SPI do not automatically trump everything else? Mark Well done for tackling this subject Hal. I shall be very interested in the discussions. I like your idea of ‘mindfulness’ – anyone who has read about or practiced meditation techniques will recognise the concept of adopting an attitude of neutral obervation. I think the term elegantly captures what team members must do to ensure that improvement opportunities are recognised and acted on.

I hope the discussions include the topic of personal motivation for project kaizen activity. I suspect that in typical projects where workers may feel that they are always a step behind the schedule, the fact that they personally may not stand to gain in the long term from any effort they expend in working out, testing and documenting better methods, may prevent them from doing so.

Maybe your idea of a metric of the number of improvements will help, but how do we ensure that when the chips are down, CPI and/or SPI do not automatically trump everything else?

Mark

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