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Taking a Lean Approach to PM Optimization

How You Have Your PMs Addressing The Right Issues, Make The Effective

In the previous articles, we looked at what type of analysis to use to evaluate the effectiveness of the PMs and if they are cost effective. Once the PMs have been optimized to ensure they are addressing the right failure modes, then they need to be made efficient. Below is an excerpt from a recent article in SMRP’s Solutions Magazine on how to make PM efficient using the lean tools.

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Filed Under: Articles, Maintenance and Reliability, on Maintenance Reliability Tagged With: Lean Project Management, Preventive Maintenance (PM)

by Robert Allen 1 Comment

Benefits of Comparing Lean/Kaizen with Agile/Scrum

Benefits of Comparing Lean/Kaizen with Agile/Scrum

Our previous article covered the benefits of comparing the DMAIC problem solving thought process with project management.  The key takeaway was DMAIC can be more effectively executed using “measure & plan” phase.

Now let’s compare and contrast agile/scrum with lean/kaizen.  While agile is primarily used in software development, there are many valid comparisons.  By making this comparison, those familiar with kaizen will improve their understanding of agile and vice-versa.  Also we’ll cover key success factors that are applicable to both.

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Filed Under: Articles, on Leadership & Career, Product Development and Process Improvement Tagged With: Agile product development, Lean Project Management, Product development

by Robert Allen 2 Comments

Design for Lean

Design for Lean

In this article series, we covered several topics in the area of product development and project management.  We will now begin to explore process improvement with the topic “Design for Lean”.  While design for lean may be a subtopic within product development, it helps us understand operational risks, operational costs, enables operational planning and process improvement.

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Filed Under: Articles, on Leadership & Career, Product Development and Process Improvement Tagged With: Lean Project Management, Product development

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The Definition of Done

The Definition of Done

In my previous article, we reviewed the project approval committee, and emphasized approval to start projects and/or approve projects in-process.

With any type of project oversight, presentations or project schedules are often reviewed.

For a more lean project management approach it would help to consider reviewing the actual deliverables, including a mutual understanding of the “definition of done”.

“Definition of done” is the agreed-upon evidence of completion of a process, activity or milestone and usually includes a project deliverable.  Some examples of deliverables might include the project plan, project schedule, documents (requirements document, plans, and reports), analysis, and designs (drawings).  Other considerations can be built-into “definition of done” including compliance, acceptance/sign-off, exceptions and best practices.

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The Project Approval Committee

The Project Approval Committee

A project approval committee can be an effective way to enable business decision-making and ensure projects are successful.

Committees may be known as a project review or steering committee; however, consider the following (proposed) objectives as follows:

  • Approve new projects (and project resources)
  • Approve project phase (phase gate) completion
  • Approve project go-forward plans (including resources)
  • Cancel projects that no longer make business sense
  • Prevent rogue/unapproved projects from consuming resources
  • Direct / redirect projects to complete key tasks or deliverables before moving forward
  • Enforce project management planning and execution

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What is Lean Product Development (Part I)?

What is Lean Product Development (Part I)?

Lean product development might mean different things to different organizations, but let’s start with the 5 principles of lean manufacturing and see how it can be applied to the product development process. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, on Leadership & Career, Product Development and Process Improvement Tagged With: Lean Project Management, Product development

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