Lean Concepts (Recap) - Lean Pillars and Principles

Concept and Purpose of Lean Project Management

• The LeanPM definitions for a project and project Management
• Shortcomings of the traditional concept of project management
• The concept of Lean project management: the transformation-flow-value generation model
• Purpose and pillars of Lean project management

Lean Project Management (LeanPM) Principles

How Do Projects Work? Project Success

• The project logic for improving a value stream and for creating a new value stream
• Project success and Conditions of Satisfaction
• Project variables and trade-offs

Project Waste

• Strategic, tactical, accumulated and multiplied waste

Cost of Time

• Cost of project delay, project acceleration, lost opportunity, premature delivery and deferred use
• Calculation of Cost of Time - example
• The best moment to take a decision: Last Responsible Moment vs. Most Responsible Moment

Introduction to Lean Project Portfolio Management

• Traditional vs. Lean project portfolio management
• Lean project portfolio allocation and processes
• Selection / alignment
• Minimum Viable Project (MVP)
• Project importance

Introduction to the Lean Project Life Cycle

• The LeanPM project life cycle phases: Idea Generation and Triage; A3 Analysis and Pre-Selection/Selection; Exploration; Sequencing; Creation and Absorption; Project Retrospective and Evaluation
• Project life cycle process efficiency

Lean Development Life Cycle

• Traditional and evolutionary development life cycles
• LeanPM evolutionary life cycles: Iterative, Exploratory (Lean Startup), Non-iterative and Continuous Delivery
• Tailoring of the evolutionary development approach

Lean Project Planning

• Traditional vs. Lean project planning
• Planning and the Network of Agreements (NOA)
• The 9 principles of lean project planning
• Planning and control - lean control system
• Exercise – Lean Control

• Push and pull planning
• Estimation – Project Case
• Exercise – Time Estimation
• Exercise – Cost Estimation

Managing Creation and Absorption

General Approach

Visual Management

Decentralized Project Management

Set-Based Concurrent Design

• Sequential (Waterfall) and concurrent design
• Centralized design
• Point-based design
• Set-based design (set-based engineering)

Built-In Quality

• Proactive vs. reactive quality control
• The objectives of quality management
• Foundation and pillars of built-in quality
• Quality by Design and Lean Quality Control
• Front Loaded Testing; Test-First Development and Managing Quality at the Source
• Exercise - Behavior-Driven Specification

Lean Teamwork

• Integrated teams, self-organizing teams, Lean-Agile leadership, transparency

Flow Management

• The goal of flow management

Controlling Work-In-Progress (WIP)

• Little’s Law; optimal WIP; the cost of multitasking

Managing Queues

• Projects as queuing systems
• The relationships between the average service time, arrival rate, capacity utilization, and waiting time
• Matching team capacity and job demand

Controlling Queues

• Visualizing queues; Kanban board, Cumulative Flow Diagram (CDF)
• The properties of the ideal (idealistic) workflow; workflow anomalies
• Responding to queues: dealing with variability, controlling demand, controlling supply

Controlling Batch Sizes

• The traditional approach; large and small batches of work; batch conditions
• Reducing batch sizes; vertical vs. horizontal slices of work

The Water and The Rocks / Empirical Continuous Improvement