Getting Smart with Pull Planning in Design
In my previous post What IKEA and Pull Planning in Design Have in Common I shared three strategies to make your pull plan in design …
Change Document Requests in Lean IPD
The Beauty Lies in Simplicity I previously wrote about how a Northern California Hospital leveraged Co-location and Lean Principles for design success. Anyone who has …
How to Empower Lean Project Teams for Success (Part 1)
How to Empower Your Lean Project Team for Success (Part 1) Sharing is Caring Imagine you are planning a vacation in Italy in a few …
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What Pull Planning in Design and IKEA Have in Common
If you are like most people, you bought flat-pack furniture from IKEA at some point in your life. You return home, unpack the pieces and …
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Leveraging Co-Location and Lean Principles for Design Success
It’s no secret that large-scale building projects have become more and more complex over the years with numerous design disciplines and contractors involved. As a …
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Building Complex Capital Projects with Lean Integrated Project Delivery
Complex capital projects across all industries, from health care, oil, gas, mining, manufacturing and power generation all have at least one thing in common. According …
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Book Club Action Plan
This Book Club Action Plan provides a structure and recommendations for implementing a collaborative learning experience for an organization or project team. What is a …
The One Thing a Project Manager Can Actually Control
Yet Usually Ignores. Project Managers for any type of project (construction, IT, new business service line, etc.) think they have control over many aspects of the …
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Values First
The most successful IPD teams can answer 3 questions: Why are we building? How are we building? What are we building? Less successful teams eventually …
Negotiation is the First Collaborative Act
We are often asked whether negotiating an IPD agreement takes longer than negotiating a traditional agreement, such as a construction manager at risk contract. The …