Making the change to lean ways of doing projects requires breaking with the past. Re-tell the story of your enterprise to make the change.
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Nearly 20 years ago Robert Reich made a big claim: Americans can’t change who they are until they change the story of who they’ve been. His book, Tales of a New America detailed classical American stories: the rot at [...]
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Is resistance getting in our way of adopting lean? Or, is it something bigger?
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Mystery solved: the godfather of lean gave us the eighth waste.
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Wanna get lean? Then change your accounting.
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The Quick-n-Easy-Kaizen community is spinning. See what’s going on.
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Kaizen is the engine for developing people. Quick and Easy Kaizen is the turbocharger on that engine.
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There is such an urge to get our projects right. Not approximately right. Right, as “Do it right the first time.” Projects are not like that, especially design projects. Norman Bodek has been speaking about two principal ways we learn: copying the successful actions of others and making mistakes. If [...]
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Another great day of work. We got through the Daily Scrum in 13 minutes (without standing). I asked for a weekly retrospective to examine what we are learning and what needs our attention. In short, team members assessed they were learning and accomplishing far more than they expected. Let’s see if [...]
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Is Toyota paranoid? They are according to BW. Staying Paranoid at Toyota, BW July 2, 2007 claims Toyota has become paranoid. They point to the following quote by Katsuaki Watanabe, Toyota President:
“The scariest symptom of ‘big-company disease’ is that complacency will breed.”
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We had our first Daily Scrum. It took 16 minutes. I minute too long. Our ScrumMaster asked each of us the 3 Scrum questions:
What have you done since yesterday’s meeting?
What are you going to get done today?
What impediments (obstacles) do you need to be removed?
What do I know? I’m just a [...]
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Job Methods (JM) improvement is the TWI approach for systematically stripping waste from a set of steps or a process. The beauty of it is it can easily be taught. That differs from Six Sigma’s DMAIC or from the usual lean kaizen workshops.
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The TWI Summit Presentations are available. Make sure you look at John Shook’s description of TWI and Toyota. John had a key leadership role in the start-up of NUMMI.
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The International Group for Lean Construction is meeting in the US in 2007. Don’t miss it!
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Be careful what you read about lean. “Experts” might lead you astray.
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Face your demons. Embrace the dip. Choose mastery. Seth Godin encourages you to get serious.
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Jeffrey Liker has a new book on Toyota, Toyota Talent, Developing Your People the Toyota Way. I’ve got my copy. I’ll be reading it closely this week while traveling to SFO.
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It’s my pleasure to speak again at a meeting of the Puget Sound PMI Chapter. Two years ago I gave a rather long and complicated presentation on obsolete theory, Fayol, Flores, and what can be learned from construction project management. This time I’ll be attempting a much shorter and less complicated talk. [...]
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Toyota can’t stay out of the press. If you’ve been reading the prior stories you know why. Well, I couldn’t help myself. I just had to pass along one more story Why Toyota Is Afraid Of Being Number One appearing in Business Week.
“Chrysler communications chief Jason Vines said, “The thing I resent [...]
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If you haven’t read From 0 to 60 to World Domination, then do so quickly. It’s a New York Times Magazine article; they could pull it off the general readership at any moment. Better yet, make yourself a copy. Even the Toyota critics will have to admit that the NY Times did [...]
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It’s no secret that Toyota is a dominating competitor. Now the secret is out how they do it.
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Construction projects, like most projects, are conducting in a world that is unfolding. Understanding the differences of planning, scheduling, and forecasting can save your team much grief and aggravation.
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Don’t start a Lean Six Sigma initiative without the full engagement of the CEO and the rest of the leadership of the firm. Nothing less will work.
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? Guy Kawasaki wrote, "Less is the new more." Easy to learn: symmetry, seduction, subtraction, and sustainability. Very valuable to do. Step 1: Read Matt's book!! just 140 keystrokes.
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Boston Globe Slams Construction Industry
by Hal on August 12, 2007
in Safety, commentary, construction, leadership, lean
Boston Globe takes construction industry to task for poor management.
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