Project managers, designers, and contractors all face increasing pressure to continue to deliver quality projects that incorporate client goals and meet building code and certification requirements while condensing project schedules and cost. As a result, proactive and collaborative strategies to execute work that are effective, efficient, and consider the needs of all project disciplines have become critical to building successful teams.
By engaging in proactive conversations and collaborative work planning sessions, a Lean approach to design and construction benefits project delivery, strengthens team alignment, and minimize delays and constraints to the project. The use of collaborative and interactive work planning engages all team members earlier on in the project design development, ensuring the consideration of all client requirements and team members' needs, timelines, and questions in an effective manner. This collaborative approach to work planning, known as pull planning, emphasizes handoffs between team members and serves to develop a team work plan that all team members have aligned across and built together.
The teams and clients we’ve worked with have seen tangible benefits in implementing Lean tools on their projects, including better communication and teamwork across different engineering disciplines, contractors, subconsultants, and stakeholders and improvements to scope control and schedule management. Lean project delivery tools primarily focus on three categories: Collaborative Work Planning, Decision Making, and Continuous Improvement. This presentation will introduce the Lean design tools in all three categories but will focus on an interactive exercise that will engage audience members to participate in a mock Pull Planning session.
Stronger Teamwork and Project Delivery Through Lean Design
Integrated Systems
