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Changing the Expectation of the Way We Perform Construction Projects
We have learned along the way that there will have to be changes in habits, attitudes and the individual and collective performance of the various leaders within our project teams. A few of these are to:
- Go from “knowing” to “learning”
- Go from reliance on
technical, individual computerized processes to being comfortable with
simple, highly interactive collaboration events,
- Go from fixing blame to fixing a problem’s root cause, and
- Go from monitoring, tracking, reporting and documenting to supporting
craft supervisor planning, leading learning and ensuring continuous
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|  As you will learn as we progress through the book and class sessions,
production management requires a large dose of leadership, especially
in the beginning. Envision the analogy that the Mississippi River has to be cleaned from the headwaters moving
downstream. That is how we have developed the text and class sessions
for our future state project production system. We will cover key
topics in the following order: - Getting Started:
- Introduction:
- Culture of Communication,
- Pre-Construction Planning,
- Value Stream
Production Planning and the
- Concepts of Pull, Takt and Single Piece Flow
- Operation Production Planning:
- Operation Production Planning Packets,
- Minimum Workzone Requirements, and the
- Production Planning Calendar
- Implementation, Execution and Improvement:
- Before
Action Reviews,
- Written Daily Work Plans, Beginning & End of Shift
Crew Huddles,
- Daily End of Shift Meetings and Employee Motivation
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| Other Fundamental Breakthrough & Productivity Improvement Concepts:
- Purposive Discovery I / Constructive Collaboration:
 - Waste, Waste Types
and Causes,
- Indicators of Instability,
- Direct Observation,
- Ground Truth, After Action Reviews,
- The “First Four Hours” and the
- Creation of
a routine,
- Root Cause Analysis/ Problem Solving:
- Defining the problem,
- Thorough Analysis,
- Alternative Solutions,
- PDCA cycle, Using an A3 report
- Purposive Discovery II / Expanding Our Scope:
- Calculating and Achieving Potential,
- Tier Three Operations &
- Value Streams and Growing Associates
- Further Expanding Our Scope:
- Standardized Work,
- Recapping the Process,
- Continuing to Continue
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