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LPSThe Last Planner System® is a lean approach to planning and delivering projects. It is based on a hierarchy of planning: should, can, will, and did. LPS is not a computer system. It is a set of protocols corresponding with the four above items: pull planning, look-ahead planning, task planning, and daily coordination.
The Last Planner System is a registered trademark of the Lean Construction Institute.
Last Planner SystemThe Last Planner System® is a lean approach to planning and delivering projects. It is based on a hierarchy of planning: should, can, will, and did. LPS is not a computer system. It is a set of protocols corresponding with the four above items: pull planning, look-ahead planning, task planning, and daily coordination.
The Last Planner System is a registered trademark of the Lean Construction Institute.
The PMI CEO wants to look beyond deterministic planning
LPSThe Last Planner System® is a lean approach to planning and delivering projects. It is based on a hierarchy of planning: should, can, will, and did. LPS is not a computer system. It is a set of protocols corresponding with the four above items: pull planning, look-ahead planning, task planning, and daily coordination.
The Last Planner System is a registered trademark of the Lean Construction Institute.
Last Planner SystemThe Last Planner System® is a lean approach to planning and delivering projects. It is based on a hierarchy of planning: should, can, will, and did. LPS is not a computer system. It is a set of protocols corresponding with the four above items: pull planning, look-ahead planning, task planning, and daily coordination.
The Last Planner System is a registered trademark of the Lean Construction Institute.
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“Project Quality Management must address the management of the project and the product of the project”
(p.180, PMBoK, 3rd edition)
In an earlier blog entry, I presented the Nine Wastes of Mismanaged Projects, according to Lean Project Management gurus (Howell, Macomber, Koskela, [...]
LPSThe Last Planner System® is a lean approach to planning and delivering projects. It is based on a hierarchy of planning: should, can, will, and did. LPS is not a computer system. It is a set of protocols corresponding with the four above items: pull planning, look-ahead planning, task planning, and daily coordination.
The Last Planner System is a registered trademark of the Lean Construction Institute.
Last Planner SystemThe Last Planner System® is a lean approach to planning and delivering projects. It is based on a hierarchy of planning: should, can, will, and did. LPS is not a computer system. It is a set of protocols corresponding with the four above items: pull planning, look-ahead planning, task planning, and daily coordination.
The Last Planner System is a registered trademark of the Lean Construction Institute.
Long term success of any firm depends on how well we do projects. Professional service firms — get some good advice.
LPSThe Last Planner System® is a lean approach to planning and delivering projects. It is based on a hierarchy of planning: should, can, will, and did. LPS is not a computer system. It is a set of protocols corresponding with the four above items: pull planning, look-ahead planning, task planning, and daily coordination.
The Last Planner System is a registered trademark of the Lean Construction Institute.
Last Planner SystemThe Last Planner System® is a lean approach to planning and delivering projects. It is based on a hierarchy of planning: should, can, will, and did. LPS is not a computer system. It is a set of protocols corresponding with the four above items: pull planning, look-ahead planning, task planning, and daily coordination.
The Last Planner System is a registered trademark of the Lean Construction Institute.
Project management is both science and art. Scott Berkun’s book The Art of Project Management fills a gap. If you are serious about advancing in a career in project management then you must read this book.
LPSThe Last Planner System® is a lean approach to planning and delivering projects. It is based on a hierarchy of planning: should, can, will, and did. LPS is not a computer system. It is a set of protocols corresponding with the four above items: pull planning, look-ahead planning, task planning, and daily coordination.
The Last Planner System is a registered trademark of the Lean Construction Institute.
Last Planner SystemThe Last Planner System® is a lean approach to planning and delivering projects. It is based on a hierarchy of planning: should, can, will, and did. LPS is not a computer system. It is a set of protocols corresponding with the four above items: pull planning, look-ahead planning, task planning, and daily coordination.
The Last Planner System is a registered trademark of the Lean Construction Institute.
David Green, NSW Department of Commerce, makes his debut at RFP today with his ‘musings’ on ‘What Is Project Management?’ His piece is well-written and provocative. Read on and leave David a comment…
LPSThe Last Planner System® is a lean approach to planning and delivering projects. It is based on a hierarchy of planning: should, can, will, and did. LPS is not a computer system. It is a set of protocols corresponding with the four above items: pull planning, look-ahead planning, task planning, and daily coordination.
The Last Planner System is a registered trademark of the Lean Construction Institute.
Last Planner SystemThe Last Planner System® is a lean approach to planning and delivering projects. It is based on a hierarchy of planning: should, can, will, and did. LPS is not a computer system. It is a set of protocols corresponding with the four above items: pull planning, look-ahead planning, task planning, and daily coordination.
The Last Planner System is a registered trademark of the Lean Construction Institute.
Projects@Work – No-How: Can You Manage by PMBoK?: “A checklist of standards does not a methodology make. You need to go beyond what should be done on your project and figure out how it should be done.”
This is a good article by Mark E. Mullaly, PMP on PMI, PMBoK®, and project management.
LPSThe Last Planner System® [...]
LPSThe Last Planner System® is a lean approach to planning and delivering projects. It is based on a hierarchy of planning: should, can, will, and did. LPS is not a computer system. It is a set of protocols corresponding with the four above items: pull planning, look-ahead planning, task planning, and daily coordination.
The Last Planner System is a registered trademark of the Lean Construction Institute.
Last Planner SystemThe Last Planner System® is a lean approach to planning and delivering projects. It is based on a hierarchy of planning: should, can, will, and did. LPS is not a computer system. It is a set of protocols corresponding with the four above items: pull planning, look-ahead planning, task planning, and daily coordination.
The Last Planner System is a registered trademark of the Lean Construction Institute.
BUCEC Introduces Project Management Competency Model; Failure To Consider “Art” Called Major Factor In Project Failure
A major reason projects fail is that organizations typically think of project management as a science, not as an art, according to research from the Boston University Corporate Education Center (BUCEC).
BUCEC’s model divides project management skills into three major categories [...]
LPSThe Last Planner System® is a lean approach to planning and delivering projects. It is based on a hierarchy of planning: should, can, will, and did. LPS is not a computer system. It is a set of protocols corresponding with the four above items: pull planning, look-ahead planning, task planning, and daily coordination.
The Last Planner System is a registered trademark of the Lean Construction Institute.
Last Planner SystemThe Last Planner System® is a lean approach to planning and delivering projects. It is based on a hierarchy of planning: should, can, will, and did. LPS is not a computer system. It is a set of protocols corresponding with the four above items: pull planning, look-ahead planning, task planning, and daily coordination.
The Last Planner System is a registered trademark of the Lean Construction Institute.
Over a year ago I published a series of postings on the critical path method that produced all kinds of comments and emails from readers. I collected those postings into a two-page article that I published on this site as CPM: Fool Me Once, Fool Me Twice. Shortly thereafter, Greg Howell caught some [...]
LPSThe Last Planner System® is a lean approach to planning and delivering projects. It is based on a hierarchy of planning: should, can, will, and did. LPS is not a computer system. It is a set of protocols corresponding with the four above items: pull planning, look-ahead planning, task planning, and daily coordination.
The Last Planner System is a registered trademark of the Lean Construction Institute.
Last Planner SystemThe Last Planner System® is a lean approach to planning and delivering projects. It is based on a hierarchy of planning: should, can, will, and did. LPS is not a computer system. It is a set of protocols corresponding with the four above items: pull planning, look-ahead planning, task planning, and daily coordination.
The Last Planner System is a registered trademark of the Lean Construction Institute.
Bill Duncan, original author of A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBoK®), wrote a concise article, METHODS AND MEANS: For Good Measure, in the May/June Projects@Work journal. Bill covers the bases providing both a context for measuring project success and guidelines for developing useful metrics that matter.
I suggest we step back [...]
LPSThe Last Planner System® is a lean approach to planning and delivering projects. It is based on a hierarchy of planning: should, can, will, and did. LPS is not a computer system. It is a set of protocols corresponding with the four above items: pull planning, look-ahead planning, task planning, and daily coordination.
The Last Planner System is a registered trademark of the Lean Construction Institute.
Last Planner SystemThe Last Planner System® is a lean approach to planning and delivering projects. It is based on a hierarchy of planning: should, can, will, and did. LPS is not a computer system. It is a set of protocols corresponding with the four above items: pull planning, look-ahead planning, task planning, and daily coordination.
The Last Planner System is a registered trademark of the Lean Construction Institute.
Good project management is more than the sum of the activities recommended by PMI. Good project management requires context as a basis for shaping action in the inevitability of encountering the unanticipated.
LPSThe Last Planner System® is a lean approach to planning and delivering projects. It is based on a hierarchy of planning: should, can, will, and did. LPS is not a computer system. It is a set of protocols corresponding with the four above items: pull planning, look-ahead planning, task planning, and daily coordination.
The Last Planner System is a registered trademark of the Lean Construction Institute.
Last Planner SystemThe Last Planner System® is a lean approach to planning and delivering projects. It is based on a hierarchy of planning: should, can, will, and did. LPS is not a computer system. It is a set of protocols corresponding with the four above items: pull planning, look-ahead planning, task planning, and daily coordination.
The Last Planner System is a registered trademark of the Lean Construction Institute.
There’s been quite the discussion of Koskela’s and Howell’s papers in the NewGrange listserv group. Unfortunately, there’s no archive of the discussion that you can read. I’ll just say that people have very strong opinions about the value (or lack) of the K&H papers. The participants of the discussion group are experienced, [...]
LPSThe Last Planner System® is a lean approach to planning and delivering projects. It is based on a hierarchy of planning: should, can, will, and did. LPS is not a computer system. It is a set of protocols corresponding with the four above items: pull planning, look-ahead planning, task planning, and daily coordination.
The Last Planner System is a registered trademark of the Lean Construction Institute.
Last Planner SystemThe Last Planner System® is a lean approach to planning and delivering projects. It is based on a hierarchy of planning: should, can, will, and did. LPS is not a computer system. It is a set of protocols corresponding with the four above items: pull planning, look-ahead planning, task planning, and daily coordination.
The Last Planner System is a registered trademark of the Lean Construction Institute.
Today I complete my comments of the paper The Theory of Project Management: Explanation of Novel Methods by Lauri Koskela and Greg Howell. The authors are careful to use the phrase underlying theory to denote that project management theory is not explicit. The authors make their inferences of theory from the practices and [...]
LPSThe Last Planner System® is a lean approach to planning and delivering projects. It is based on a hierarchy of planning: should, can, will, and did. LPS is not a computer system. It is a set of protocols corresponding with the four above items: pull planning, look-ahead planning, task planning, and daily coordination.
The Last Planner System is a registered trademark of the Lean Construction Institute.
Last Planner SystemThe Last Planner System® is a lean approach to planning and delivering projects. It is based on a hierarchy of planning: should, can, will, and did. LPS is not a computer system. It is a set of protocols corresponding with the four above items: pull planning, look-ahead planning, task planning, and daily coordination.
The Last Planner System is a registered trademark of the Lean Construction Institute.
Lauri Koskela and Greg Howell (K&H) argue successfully that current theory is obsolete in their paper The Underlying Theory of Project Management is Obsolete. However the authors may be limited in producing a new theory by exactly the same background paradigm that makes current theory obsolete. K&H seemingly accept the machine metaphor as [...]
LPSThe Last Planner System® is a lean approach to planning and delivering projects. It is based on a hierarchy of planning: should, can, will, and did. LPS is not a computer system. It is a set of protocols corresponding with the four above items: pull planning, look-ahead planning, task planning, and daily coordination.
The Last Planner System is a registered trademark of the Lean Construction Institute.
Last Planner SystemThe Last Planner System® is a lean approach to planning and delivering projects. It is based on a hierarchy of planning: should, can, will, and did. LPS is not a computer system. It is a set of protocols corresponding with the four above items: pull planning, look-ahead planning, task planning, and daily coordination.
The Last Planner System is a registered trademark of the Lean Construction Institute.
Lauri Koskela and Greg Howell (K&H) do a marvelous job of capturing the experience of projects on page 11 of The Underlying Theory of Project Management is Obsolete:
“The deficiencies of the theory of the project and of the theory of management reinforce each other and their detrimental effects propagate through the life cycle of a [...]
LPSThe Last Planner System® is a lean approach to planning and delivering projects. It is based on a hierarchy of planning: should, can, will, and did. LPS is not a computer system. It is a set of protocols corresponding with the four above items: pull planning, look-ahead planning, task planning, and daily coordination.
The Last Planner System is a registered trademark of the Lean Construction Institute.
Last Planner SystemThe Last Planner System® is a lean approach to planning and delivering projects. It is based on a hierarchy of planning: should, can, will, and did. LPS is not a computer system. It is a set of protocols corresponding with the four above items: pull planning, look-ahead planning, task planning, and daily coordination.
The Last Planner System is a registered trademark of the Lean Construction Institute.
Project controls espoused theory isn’t working. The good news is the theory-in-action can keep us out of trouble.
LPSThe Last Planner System® is a lean approach to planning and delivering projects. It is based on a hierarchy of planning: should, can, will, and did. LPS is not a computer system. It is a set of protocols corresponding with the four above items: pull planning, look-ahead planning, task planning, and daily coordination.
The Last Planner System is a registered trademark of the Lean Construction Institute.
Last Planner SystemThe Last Planner System® is a lean approach to planning and delivering projects. It is based on a hierarchy of planning: should, can, will, and did. LPS is not a computer system. It is a set of protocols corresponding with the four above items: pull planning, look-ahead planning, task planning, and daily coordination.
The Last Planner System is a registered trademark of the Lean Construction Institute.
The PMBoK® describes 10 planning processes out of a total of 13 core processes for project management. These 10 processes comprise what Koskela and Howell (K&H) call management-as-planning in their paper The Underlying Theory of Project Management is Obsolete.
It is crazy to give the greatest effort to detail when we know the least about [...]
LPSThe Last Planner System® is a lean approach to planning and delivering projects. It is based on a hierarchy of planning: should, can, will, and did. LPS is not a computer system. It is a set of protocols corresponding with the four above items: pull planning, look-ahead planning, task planning, and daily coordination.
The Last Planner System is a registered trademark of the Lean Construction Institute.
Last Planner SystemThe Last Planner System® is a lean approach to planning and delivering projects. It is based on a hierarchy of planning: should, can, will, and did. LPS is not a computer system. It is a set of protocols corresponding with the four above items: pull planning, look-ahead planning, task planning, and daily coordination.
The Last Planner System is a registered trademark of the Lean Construction Institute.
Koskela and Howell (K&H) claim in their paper The Underlying Theory of Project Management is Obsolete the theory-in-use of project management is based on a production theory and a management theory. The production theory is transformation: input-process-output (IPO). The management theory is closed-loop: planning-executing-controlling, with the emphasis on planning (management-as-planning, the dispatching model, [...]
LPSThe Last Planner System® is a lean approach to planning and delivering projects. It is based on a hierarchy of planning: should, can, will, and did. LPS is not a computer system. It is a set of protocols corresponding with the four above items: pull planning, look-ahead planning, task planning, and daily coordination.
The Last Planner System is a registered trademark of the Lean Construction Institute.
Last Planner SystemThe Last Planner System® is a lean approach to planning and delivering projects. It is based on a hierarchy of planning: should, can, will, and did. LPS is not a computer system. It is a set of protocols corresponding with the four above items: pull planning, look-ahead planning, task planning, and daily coordination.
The Last Planner System is a registered trademark of the Lean Construction Institute.
I’ll start my comments on Koskela’s and Howell’s (K&H) paper The Underlying Theory of Project Management is Obsolete by addressing the interest in theory. Many of you may want something of more practical value. Although the engineers in the group may be quite comfortable with a discussion of theory. Why should we [...]
LPSThe Last Planner System® is a lean approach to planning and delivering projects. It is based on a hierarchy of planning: should, can, will, and did. LPS is not a computer system. It is a set of protocols corresponding with the four above items: pull planning, look-ahead planning, task planning, and daily coordination.
The Last Planner System is a registered trademark of the Lean Construction Institute.
Last Planner SystemThe Last Planner System® is a lean approach to planning and delivering projects. It is based on a hierarchy of planning: should, can, will, and did. LPS is not a computer system. It is a set of protocols corresponding with the four above items: pull planning, look-ahead planning, task planning, and daily coordination.
The Last Planner System is a registered trademark of the Lean Construction Institute.
Lauri Koskela and Greg Howell presented their original paper The Underlying Theory of Project Management is Obsolete at PMI’s bi-annual Research Conference this past July. A number of people have asked me to comment on it. I’m struck by how persuasive Lauri and Greg are. It takes them just 12 pages to [...]
LPSThe Last Planner System® is a lean approach to planning and delivering projects. It is based on a hierarchy of planning: should, can, will, and did. LPS is not a computer system. It is a set of protocols corresponding with the four above items: pull planning, look-ahead planning, task planning, and daily coordination.
The Last Planner System is a registered trademark of the Lean Construction Institute.
Last Planner SystemThe Last Planner System® is a lean approach to planning and delivering projects. It is based on a hierarchy of planning: should, can, will, and did. LPS is not a computer system. It is a set of protocols corresponding with the four above items: pull planning, look-ahead planning, task planning, and daily coordination.
The Last Planner System is a registered trademark of the Lean Construction Institute.
? 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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A New Idea…Can I Face the Pain?
by Hal on January 1, 2007
in Language Action Perspective, Last Planner, PMBoK, commentary, lean, theory
Are you ready for project success? Yes, you say. Are you ready to face the pain that goes with it?
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