Leading Lean Projects: Implementing Lean Project Management for House Construction

This article discusses the implementation of lean project management for house construction in Maylands, Perth, Western Australia. The PMBOK framework is used for selecting the suburb, deciding the land size, and choosing the builder. The report also highlights the factors affecting the design and layout of the dream home and the project management process. The implementation of lean best practices for achieving lean project management is also discussed. The article concludes by stating the benefits of implementing lean project management for house construction.

Running head: LEADING LEAN PROJECTS
LEADING LEAN PROJECTS
(Implementing lean project management to build your dream home)
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Table of Contents
Introduction..........................................................................................................................2
Discussion............................................................................................................................2
Choice of Suburb.............................................................................................................2
Deciding the land size to buy...........................................................................................3
Choice of builder.............................................................................................................4
Stakeholder of the Project................................................................................................5
Factors affecting the design and layout of dream home..................................................5
Project Management process...........................................................................................6
Lean best practices for achieving lean project management...........................................7
Conclusion.........................................................................................................................10
References..........................................................................................................................11

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Introduction
PMBOK can be expanded as project management body of knowledge which is defined as
a collection of certain process, guidelines and terminologies. The practices of PMBOK are
considered as standard which is accepted in the whole project management Industry. This
particular practice is considered to be fundamental for project management (Brioso, 2015). A
house is to be constructed in Maylands of Perth, Western Australia by making use of PMBOK
framework. Australian government has come up with an initiative which is known as Keystart
initiative for house construction. An application has been submitted to this Australian body for
the house construction in Perth. A deal has been signed in between the land developers where a
deposition of 2000 Australian Dollars is required (Varajão, Colomo-Palacios & Silva, 2017). The
agreement has been signed off as Pre-Work Construction contract with the builder where a
deposition is required. Keystart is making the dream of affordable home ownership for thousands
of Western Australians. The vision of this body is clear that is providing affordable homes for
large number of people.
The report highlights implementing lean project management required for house
construction. Maylands has been chosen as the suburb where the house will be constructed. An
overview has been provided with required land size of house construction in Maylands. Proper
research has been done in the market for identifying the potential home where the construction of
dream home will be done. The report highlights the method of implementing learn best practices
for having project management.
Discussion
Choice of Suburb

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PMBOK methodology will be required for selection of suburb in Perth, Western
Australia. In the initiation stage, the project will have authorized selection of this suburb (Chaves
et al, 2016). This particular stage occurs at the organizational level so that the project is satisfied.
In the second stage, project manager will have project management plan that defines why this
particular suburb has been chosen. In the execution stage, project team will decide the overall
project deliverables of suburb selection process. Maylands is one of best suburb of Perth which
has numerous tracks of cycling and river walks. It comes up with unique public transport and
unique house on the street. The suburb is very much safe for family members (Siegelaub, 2017).
The only drawback is that it lacks good kind of NBN connection where issues can be overcome
by installation of wireless devices. In the monitoring stage, the overall cost of living in this
particular suburb is analyzed. In the closure stage, Maylands has been selected as the best suburb
for house construction. This particular suburb is situated around 10 minutes from the airport. It
aims to provide multiple options based on weather and schedule that is four bus route, train, and
cycle. It is very much close to the city. During the weekends, residents have the option of riding
bicycles to the nearby river that is Bardon Park and even East Perth. It is across the new bridge to
the Optus Stadium (Demirkesen & Ozorhon, 2017). Rise Rec Centre comes up with a library for
children of this suburb.
Deciding the land size to buy
PMBOK framework will be used for deciding the land size which is for this house
construction in Maylands. In the initiation phase, proper research is done about the neighborhood
things like access to schools, shopping malls, transport and proximity to work. The next stage is
analyzing the budget and finance of this project (Karaman, & Kurt, 2015). The average cost of
150 meters of land in Maysland is found to be around 500 AUD. In addition to this, some other

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aspects like state tax, fees and duties should be taken into account. In the execution phase, the
land is to be selected as various aspects like budget and size of plot has been already selected. In
the monitoring phase various aspects like proximity of road, public transport, and park that can
add value to home in long term are taken into account (Jamali & Oveisi, 2016). In the closure
phase of the project, the real estate guidelines which will impact the overall streetscape are taken
into account. As the land has been selected, it is important to finalize the home design and choice
of builder with the allocated budget.
Choice of builder
The choice of builder for this project is done with the help of PMBOK methodology. The
very first step is all about conducting preliminary research about the builder that is present home
and lifestyle. As choice of the builder has been made the very next stage is planning. The chosen
designer aims to have important step which is needed need for construction of new home
(Gonçalves et al., 2017). Designers are merely fitted into two categories that are architecture and
building designers. In whole Australia, there are merely two categories that are architecture and
building designers. In addition, a SWOT analysis will be done so that strength, weakness,
opportunity, and threats can be easily analyzed. In the execution stage, the conceptual design of
the house construction will be done which will help in understanding it against the brief. It can
easily range from simple diagram which is the back of developed through hand-drawn concepts
(Rosenberger, Wien & Tick, 2019). In the monitoring and controlling stage, the concept design
which suits the need of user has been given. The designer aims to develop certain concepts
which are related to the preliminary work. One idea can be easily developed which is additional
concept for designing fees. It is a vital stage as it requires room arrangements, size of window,
indication of indoor and furniture layout. In the closure stage, the final plan of house

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construction is taken into account. In this, the budget overruns and there is reduction of overall
cost. This particular aspect is considered to be greatest threat to the environment as sustainability
feature is considered to be optional for home. It requires to be eliminated through trade-off by
the help of low cost. This particular tradeoff is completely managed by separating the project
into various segments.
Stakeholder of the Project
There are mainly five-stage of stakeholder analysis that is
Asking stakeholder in being phases of the project: Being a project manager, the mere
focus is all about ensuring that stakeholders are selected which is inclusive of stakeholder
register for this house construction in Maysland (Nasir et al., 2015). There is need of taking need
initiatives for due diligence and raising some concern. Both Project sponsor and executives need
to focus on making extra effort to withstanding the information.
Having sufficient time for stakeholder analysis: For this house construction project,
there is need of having sufficient time which is need for analyzing weight for each of the
stakeholders. In addition, different aspect of the project and final output is also taken into
account (Ma et al., 2018). In addition to this, stakeholder mapping is an important aspect of
having a clear picture of the main stakeholder.
Best Methodology for specific project: There is a list of stakeholder analysis and
methodologies which have been developed in the last few years (Errihani, Elfezazi, & Benhida,
2015). There is a list of aspect like power and ability for influencing other and value of hierarchy
and important areas of performance.

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Factors affecting the design and layout of dream home
There are large number of aspects which affect the design and layout of dream home
Zoning: Families with children and teen will have an understanding with respect to the
importance of zoning. Placement in between two that is buffer zone and children bedroom is
required to be taken into account (Ferreira et al., 2017). In addition to this, natural lights need to
be encouraged which is required for placement and dimension for doors and windows. Both the
bedrooms and study room is required to be placed so that there can be reduction in overall noise.
Sleeping quarters: There is a general thumb rule that is bedroom for each and every
family member along with guest room. In smaller rooms, there is high demand for each room
considering the flexibility of room which has many purposes. There is including dual entry for
bathrooms and study rooms with any kind of disruption from the family.
Open Plan Living: Light and space are always taken to be on the top for any new home
buyers (Huda & Azizah, 2018). There is shift for open plan living which ensures that death knell
is there on the traditional floor plan and dining room for primary causalities.
Kitchen: The mere focus is the work area on home and kitchen needs for both
functioning and stunning. Both height and configuration of cupboard aim to have the maximum
access for adults in the house.
Storage: One of the important which is being needed is that look and feel of website
cannot be same for storage space in home (Cardona-Meza & Olivar-Tost, 2017). It is merely
inclusive of bedroom which can prevent any kind of cluttering of communal living place.
Project Management process

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Construction of this house can be easily done by the help of project management process
which comprises of five steps that is initiation, planning, execution, performance and monitoring
and lastly closure.
Initiation: Before the starting of house construction, it is the duty of project manager to
develop and evaluate the business cases. This is all about analyzing if the given project is
feasible or not (Kim, Jeon & Kim, 2015). Stakeholder might be asked to carry out their diligence
for conducting feasibility analysis on the project.
Planning: This particular comprises of road map which is involved in house
construction. It has approved documents, PMP by project manager for guiding the execution and
control of this construction project (Tavan & Hosseini, 2016). It comprises of series of
documents like state statement and documents, WBS, risk management plan and communication
plan.
Execution: The project team will begin the important work by kick-off meeting for
important document. It is implemented by the help of project management plan and tracking
system, project schedule and modification of plan.
Performance: The monitoring phase work in concurrent way with execution phase. It is
merely needed for understanding both the progress and performance of project (Tavan &
Hosseini, 2016). It emphasizes on ensuring items which are lined up with project management
plan.
Closure phase: It is the last stage of project completion. Project manager of this house
construction project needs to have meeting to discuss the success and failure (Errihani, Elfezazi,

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& Benhida, 2015). In addition, it creates a collection of task, final budget along with any issue in
project report.
Lean best practices for achieving lean project management
Lean management can be defined as a set of tools which help in improving the overall
productivity, cost reduction and improvement of quality. When this applied to project
management, lean practices can ultimately lead to project competition within budget and time.
Lean come up with different tools and techniques like Kanban, 5S, SMED and many others
(Gasik, 2015). There are many naïve implementation decisions that require certain tools for
implementing. Implementation of lean project requires value stream mapping that defines the
overall journey of improvement. It merely requires flexible work system and 5S. It merely
includes standard work, single minute and exchange of ideas (Gonçalves, Drumond & Méxas,
2017). There is proper integration in between lean, production planning and control system like
ERP.
Plan based on long term philosophy: People in the home project need to have a sense of
purpose which is required for achieving the goals for home construction. There is need for
identifying any kind of waste in project management process.
Highlight the areas of issue: Project manager should not focus on improving a single
project task at a time (Kim, Jeon & Kim, 2015). Instead of that, the focus should be there whole
project management process. For this house construction, there is need for innovating new
process for enhancing the project life cycle.
Dividing the workload among the team members: This particular aspect helps in
reducing the overall waste by minimizing the overburden on the stakeholders in the project. Each

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of stakeholder the project comes up with predefined role to play (Alibabaie et al., 2016). Being a
project manager, the mere focus is giving priority on quality instead of quantity. Based on the
workload, proper task should be assigned to them.
Creating a culture for fixing the problem: All the stakeholder of this dream home
construction project has equal view for implementing solution (Huda & Azizah, 2018). They
come up with authority for signal for any kind of quality issue.
Implementation of lean project management for house construction can bring huge
number of benefits like:
Greater visibility: Visibility is considered as one the major component for
implementation of lean project management. Project manager of this house construction project
can have easy view on overall visibility of work in progress and who is doing the task (Ma et al.,
2018). Team members to senior management with have the desired information which is needed
by them.
Greater Control: Knowledge is the ultimate power and team can easily manage the risk
and associated resources in effective way. Team members are generally empowered by
knowledge so that they can make better decision.
Faster Project: With much detail knowledge about product development much better
decision making can be achieved (Ferreira et al., 2017). In addition to this, there will minimum
fights about the fact that who will complete the project more quickly.
Better resources: When the organization is making use of resources, it becomes much
easy for people to carry the required load (Cardona-Meza & Olivar-Tost, 2017). There will much
better software tools available for design and construction of the house.

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Conclusion
The point is taken into account that PMBOK methodology can be used for house
construction in Maylands. Keystart aims to provide low deposit home loan with minimum lender
and mortgage insurance. This merely highlights that there is low entry cost so that individual will
have home at much faster rate. Keystart has team which provides support in the whole process of
loan approval. This particular body is unique in whole-home loan market. The loans under this
body are designed in such a way that individual can have faster home loan by minimizing entry
cost. In comparison to others, keystart is a traditional one in the market of lender. The loan
approval under body comprises of five major stages that are Eligibility, approval, settlement and
manage by loan. The report deals with the choice of suburb and decision for land size. In
addition, it focuses on making choice for best builder and stakeholder for this house construction
project. A list of aspects has been highlighted which will influence both design and layout of
home. The project management process has been explained which is required for analyzing the
design and layout. An overview has been given for implementation of lean practices for having
project management. A sign has been made with the land developer where deposition of 2000
Australian dollars has been done. The agreement has been signed as pre-work construction with
the contractor which means that the deposit is returned to the client in complete in case of event
failure.

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