2008 July :: Reforming Project Management

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OSHA Fines Concrete Contractor $870,000

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

Pay attention: OSHA has fined Broadway Concrete for 15 willful violations involving fall protection and unprotected rebar on a 50-story NYC building. Let's not let it happen again.

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Time to Increase OSHA Fines

Calls for Safer Work Conditions Results in 56 OSHA Violations

GAO Says OSHA Needs Better Oversight of Fines

Kaptur Holding OSHA Accountable

NSC’s Safety Congress & Expo

Think Visual

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

Check out Dave Gray | info, a new website giving attention to ways of meaning, thinking and working by the founder of XPLANE and chief blogger at Communication Nation.

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Making 5S Work

Messer Construction — On a Lean Transformation

5S for Project Delivery and Baseball

Reflections on 5S and 5R

What Has the Gantt Chart Done for You Lately?

Who Knows Engineers?

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Curious blog We Know Engineers on A/E firms. Worth checking out.

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Brazilian Actions for Continuous Construction Flow

Get Concrete! Fast!

Project Collaboration Requires Intent and a Shared Language

Engineering and Mangement Are Different — When Will We Learn?

Sutter’s Camino Medical Project

On the Side

Become a Student of Project Management
09/28/2008

Looking for something more to squeeze into your life? Head over to pmStudent. Josh Nankivel has invited authors and bloggers to share their views and advice on learning PM. I made my first post on Friday: HBR Shares How to Move Your Stalled Projects Forward.

Construction Software Selection Checklist
08/23/2008
Houston Neal offers a high-level feature comparison checklist for beginning a software evaluation.

Wisdom from Professor Rao
08/22/2008
"Smart organizations make difficult things simple," from Bob Sutton's Work Matters.

Think Visual
07/20/2008
Check out Dave Gray | info, a new website giving attention to ways of meaning, thinking and working by the founder of XPLANE and chief blogger at Communication Nation.

Who Knows Engineers?
07/14/2008

Curious blog We Know Engineers on A/E firms. Worth checking out.

Comparing Lean and Agile
06/29/2008
Scott Reynolds writing at Tales from the SharpSide, "Lean forces you into a culture of quality. Agile is about interactions and people, and Lean is very much concerned with tools and processes." Read more about Lean vs. Agile...

Glen Alleman's Models of PM Success
06/24/2008

Glen makes two big claims:

If you don't have a credible plan and schedule, with a handle on the cost all the "soft" skills won't get you back on track
If you don't have a definitive description of what "done" looks like, so the "soft skills" class won't make those appear

Have a look at his comprehensive stand on organizing and managing projects.

Read Robert Sutton's Blog
05/16/2008

Learn from a Stanford d.School prof. Robert Sutton has a great weblog Work Matters and he's the author of The Knowing-Doing Gap and The No Assholes Rule.

Humility Makes Toyota Different
02/20/2008

From the Lean Insider: Speaking to Toyota employees at the Detroit Auto Show President Watanabe asked that they take responsibility for recent quality problems.

"I do not regard the problem as something that suppliers are responsible for. We must work together so that we are fully aware of where suppliers are."

Bernstein closes saying, "At Toyota, they know that doing the best job of serving the customer is what makes the company profitable."

Lean Project Management
02/19/2008

Brad Appleton reviewed Lean Project Management, by L Leach concluding, "I found Lean Project Management to be a fairly quick read providing a good overview of some TOC and CCPM fundamentals and how they align with Lean thinking."