Have you thought about how the principles of leanness can be applied to your project management?
Lean Project Management translates to streamlining the existing processes, so as to achieve the maximum output with minimal or no wastes. Here are a few catchphrases that Lean Practitioners suggest to implement: Standardize: Standardizing the processes ensures a more sophisticated and organized way of improvement. From decision making till rewarding and maintaining a rule, across the organization, eliminates chances of haphazardness.
Monitor and Control: To keep the improvement sustained, it is but vital to keep the process monitored and controlled. Apart from that, a Lean Thinking promotes documentation of all the changed processes, for future learning.
Change the plan if necessary: Sometimes, your study and analysis might suggest a plan other than what seems beneficial at the moment. If need be, Lean Project Management allows flexibility, rather than sticking on to a stringent plan.
Smart work preferred to hard work: Lean Project Management is all about working smarter and faster. Lean Thinking identifies the areas where wastes can be managed and changes the process to eliminate them.
Create a minimum sustainable project: Start with smaller components, and improve them to clear the path. If you target at managing larger chunks all together, it is most likely that new problems will crop up from somewhere or the other.
Validated Learning: If you have studied the process, and have ideas for making it better, validate those using numbers, pilots, and prototypes. Lean Thinking is all about confirming before implementing the final process to ensure minimum wastage.
Evaluate as you proceed: To understand if the implementation is really working or not, keep the process under constant evaluation.
The aim is to deliver maximum value with minimum waste.
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