Lean Project Management

LEAN PROJECT MANAGEMENT 15 15 LEAN PROJECT MANAGEMENT includes different project management Author name: Explanation of conflict management 3 Conflict 3 Conflict Management 3 Conflict Management Strategy 4 Leadership Style 4 The seven basic quality control techniques and tools to manage the project manager 7 The explanation of the risk management strategy for project 8 Risk management strategy 8 Lean-risk-management 9 Risk management procedure 11 References 14 Explanation of conflict management Conflict defines the contest or struggle between people along with opposing ideas, needs, goals, beliefs

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Table of Contents
Explanation of conflict management.........................................................................................3
Conflict...................................................................................................................................3
Conflict Management.............................................................................................................3
Conflict Management Strategy..............................................................................................4
Leadership Style.........................................................................................................................4
The seven basic quality control techniques and tools to manage the project.............................7
The explanation of the risk management strategy for project....................................................8
Risk management strategy.....................................................................................................8
Lean-risk-management...........................................................................................................9
Risk management procedure................................................................................................11
References................................................................................................................................14

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Explanation of conflict management
Conflict
Conflict defines the contest or struggle between people along with opposing ideas,
needs, goals, beliefs or values. It can be defined as the outcome of an individual's behaviours.
This is an important part of an organization. To build up a project consisting of multiple
people, and having interaction between them, conflicts can arise at any point of view.
Conflict in terms defines the expression consists of hostility, antagonism, aggression,
negative attitudes, misunderstanding and rivalry (Folger, Poole & Stutman, 2017). It
describes the situation where the contradictory interest between two or more opposing teams
exists. This means that a disagreement between multiple groups or individuals and each
group and individuals are trying to improve the acceptance view of others. Therefore, it refers
to a disagreement between each other members or people in an organization. This behaviour
is derived from the relationships between human beings. Larfela stated conflict as the part of
the process of competition which is basics needs for the successful evaluation and survival of
homosapiences, spices and searching for a better and new way to cope up with few resources
and environmental changes (Rahim, 2017). According to the definition, a conflict exists
between members, people, and groups in order to manage a project along with the
organisations that are related to each other in some way. Organisational conflict can be
defined as the activities intended to achieve the goals of some other persons. Therefore,
conflict is the product of the incompatibility of, and it comes from the opposing behaviours.
Conflict Management
The practising of identifying and managing conflicts fairly, efficiently and sensibly at
the beginning of the project is referred to as conflict management (Beitler & et al., 2016).

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Conflicts in business are natural, and it is necessary that people understand conflicts and the
way how to overcome them.
Conflict Management Strategy
There are different conflict management strategy, which helps to resolve conflicts occurs
between various stakeholders through the construction of a dream home project –
 Accommodation – This strategy is essential entails since it gives a chance to
oppositions to express what they want. The accommodation occurs whenever one of
the opposing sides wants to keep peace and perceives problems as minor.
 Avoiding – This strategy put-off conflicts indefinitely by ignoring or delaying the
conflicts so that the avoider can confidently resolve the problem without having a
confrontation (Reade & Lee, 2016). In some situation, avoiding can be considered as
a profitable conflict-management strategy.
 Collaborating – this strategy works by incorporating ideas or thoughts of multiple
people. The main objective is to present an optimum solution that is acceptable to
everyone in case of managing a project.
 Compromising – This strategy is useful in both the sides of conflicts to release the
elements from their position so that it would be able to found an acceptable solution if
it is not agreeable.
 Competing – The competing strategy operates as such a zero-sum game where one
wins, and another side loses that is it follows a win-lose approach.
The conflicts arise while managing a dream home project, with Mr Calum Scott,
partner of this project, and the Coral the builder of this project. The difficulties arise while
there is a conflict between the project manager and the partner related to the designing of the

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home. There is a need of managing conflict either by collaboration of multiple ideas or by
accommodation of each other so that both can express their opinions.
Leadership Style
An effective project management strategy depends on the leadership skill of the
project managers. A project includes different stages, and it is required to planning,
monitoring, and maintaining each stages efficiently (Muller & Turner, 2017). Thus a
successful project would not be completed without an efficient, competent leader. The basic
resources of the project required to be understand at the project initiation time and examine
the feasibility with these resources. Issues such as time that is require by the project manager
to successfully complete the project, time management for developing each stages, budget
that is required to complete the dream home project effectively, allocation of each resources
and the assurance of delivery of superior outcomes of the project that a project manager has
an exceptional leadership skill (Tabassi & et al., 2016). This help to make informed and
correct decisions while there are repeated changes in the behaviour of the project associated
with managing risks factors properly.
The fundamental qualities that an effective project manager poses are given below:
 Excellent interpersonal skills and communication skills
 Enthusiasm and a positive attitude
 Competence
 Integrity
 Calm, cool disposition
 Good team builder
 Problem solver
 Excellent delegator

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 Faster decision maker
 Capable of sharing a clear vision inspires others
It is necessary a project manager having an excellent interpersonal and communication
skills, which makes the project manager capable to effectively communicate with the
different people over broad spectrum within the organization or externally. In order to
construct the dream home project, the project manager required to communicate with the
partners, various stakeholders to set vision, goals, expectations and guidelines for others
(James, 2018). The project manager required to be mutual consults with his/her partner, so
they can be working well along with the others to build the dream home successfully. The
manager should be an excellent problem solver so that if the situation changes, they can
effectively manage with the general approach to the problem. In order to build the home
project, some situation arises where there is a mismatch with the partner related to layout or
design of the home that is the design of the kitchen would be standard or luxury, the flooring
of the home, the electrical appliances. Therefore as much as time, the project manager will
take to agreeing with the partner about the designing of the home, the other discussion
remains stops. Thus delaying in discussion with the builders, namely Coral Homes, which is
the largest builder in Australia, to obtain the estimated cost schedule for the construction of
dream home.
During the implementation of the project, the serious issues are:
 Difficulty in the agreement for home design with the partner
 Delay in discussion for cost estimation with the builder because of the promotion of
the new product
 Salary delay of a partner, Mr Calum Scott.
 Loss of eligibility to apply for the fund Keystart.

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Therefore, an efficient project manager used the lean project management technique to
build the home with an appropriate project planning including reducing lead time, decreasing
overall cost for building the project, planning for appropriate deliverable of the project level
with lower inventory therefore lower the storage cost with higher the productivity (greater
quality), improve efficiency and productivity, and also with the higher customer satisfaction.
The seven basic quality control techniques and tools to manage the project
The process to control the quality of the project includes various types of quality
control technique and tools, and those are used to check the quality of the project
management and also perform the process of quality assurance (Rumane, 2017). The seven
basic quality control techniques are cause-and-effect diagrams, the control charts, the flow
charts, the histogram, the Pareto analysis and Pareto charts, the scatter charts and the run
chart discussed below:
 Cause-and-effect diagrams: – The basic causes of potential problems or the existing
problems in the project are identified by the tool is called cause-and-effect diagram
while managing this project.
 Control charts: – The stability of this project can be illustrated by control charts. This
is a quality control technique which measures the behaviour of the project over time.
 Flow-charts:– The flow chart is used to show the flow of implementation of dream
home project. It also determine existing and potential problems associated with the
implementation of this project (Kerzner, 2017). This QC (control) technique helps to
predict the potential flaws exists in the project.
 Histogram: - A histogram can be defined as the graphical representation of the
frequencies of a specific event occur in the project. This QC chart is termed as a
column graph.

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 Pareto analysis and Pareto chart: – The density of portability and the distributive
functions are depicted by the QC chart, named Pareto chart. This chart helps to
improve the process involved in the dream home project.
 Scatter chart: – The correlation-ship between multiple variables such as working
hours, team attrition, quality, time and budget used in the project are shown by the
scatter diagram.
 Run chart: – The run chart can be defined as the graphical representation of the series
of collected or recorded data during each phase of the project management process
(Hopkin, 2018). This QC chart will help to understand the existing problems or
potential problem in the program it exists.
The other techniques that also manages to build the project:
 Statistical sampling: – The statistical sampling measures the portion of the entire
project. It does not measure the whole population. This helps to reduce time spam
(Harrison & Lock, 2017). For example, if the project inspects 10,000 units in a day,
then it would take an infinite time to complete the project. This is using the sampling
techniques, and the time will be reduced to complete the project.
 Inspection:– This technique involves reviewing for checking the quality of the
product. An example of this technique is generating feedback and checking the
quality by conducting reviews.
The explanation of the risk management strategy for the project
Risk management strategy
The basics of risk management are to include all the stakeholders and value their
thoughts on the organization by identifying potential risks and treating existent so that it

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ensures the business strategic plans and business objectives (Aven, 2018). It is actually a
business partner that helps to grow the project. The project involves complexity, volatility,
uncertainty and ambiguity. The risk management provides assurance that the project balance
sheet is protected, innovation and the commitment to the stakeholders. The lean guidelines
and principles are referred for planning risk management. Nowadays, services and products
providing by the loan companies and cooperate, providers, are much more analytic and
precise while there is a time to choosing a third party or a supplier. In this competitive
situation, lean is required to remain in the market to improve the complexity of project
management. In many cases, it is observed that disruptions in case of project management
with serious issues, and the business frame is affected for this disruption (McNeil, Frey &
Embrechts, 2015). Hence, to overcome the issues and risks associated with a lean era, an
alternative solution may be gaining visibility of the suppliers with complete reliability and
capability in the related project.
Lean-risk-management
The lean project management suggests techniques or tools which makes the project
leaner. Moreover, improving the building process planning makes the plan efficient for
building a quality home, eliminating material wastes this means that the project manager
plans for exact material which required to build the project, creating values for the customer
as well as for the organization (Glaser, 2019). The industry or the individual can expect
various facilities from lean-project-management. However, the project manager can expect
the benefits while constructing this project are given below:
 Reduced estimated times to building this dream home project
 Lower inventory management and therefore lower inventory costs
 Decreased the overall costs of building the project

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 Improved efficiency and productivity
 Greater quality of the building
 Higher customer satisfaction
Figure. 1. Lean-Project-Management
 Risk can be defined as the uncertainty associated with the construction of this project,
which affects several parts of process of the project positively or negatively.
 Risk management describes a methodology to identify the uncertainties at the time of
planning for building the dream home, analyse the uncertainties that may affect the
objective of the project.
 Waste can be defined as the resources that are added without any values.
 "Value can only be defined by the ultimate customer. And it's only meaningful when
expressed in terms of a specific product (goods or services, and often both at once)

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which meets the customer's needs at a specific price at a specific time (Anholo &
Sano, 2016). ”
 Value stream can be defined as the consecutive sequence of activities and steps to
deliver the service to the customer and fulfil the needs of the customers within the
estimated time and estimated cost.
 The value-added activity could be defined as the activity, which added some value to the
project and the customers need to pay for it.
 No-value added activity describes the activity which does not create any values to the
customer or to the project.
Risk management procedure
It is required to have a process to fulfil the project objective at best level. Therefore, it
would be required to enhance the portability and outcomes of preferred events.
Figure. 2. Risk Management Process Model
 Planning for risk management: The risks that may arise in the program during the
project planning, designing, implementation and evaluation phase of the project. This

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process simply tells that how the risks could be managed (Rachid, 2017). The
responsibilities and roles of the various stakeholders can also be defined in this stage.
Therefore the project manager and the partner required to plan for the project and
identify the risks such as the quantity of the materials should be good so that the home
could be built at the best level; the project must be built within the estimated time
period and the estimated budget. Hence, the complexity and the precision of planning
risk management should be scalable to the complexity and the size of the project to
meet the objective of the project.
 Risk identification: The risk management strategy evaluate the risks by identifying
the material risks. The brainstorming can be defined as a typical method to identify
risks associated with this project. In this stage, the techniques and tools such as
document review, diagrammatic techniques such as cause-and-effect analysis,
flowcharting, run charting along with the judgement from the experts.
 Analysis of qualitative risk: The analysis of quantitative risks of qualitative risks
focused on the portability of invoking risks against their consequences. In this step,
the project manager can prioritize the risk related to this project and manage them in
the next phase.
 Analysis of quantitative risk: The quantitative risks method performed through
statistics and numbers. The techniques such as the Monte Carlo model, analysis of
decision tree and Program Evaluation and Review Technique(PERT) processes helps
to understand the outcomes of this project (Damarasingu, 2017). The qualitative risk
analysis, data gathering and data modelling would require for performing this process.
 Planning for risk response: In this phase, the project manager develops an optimal
solution to improve the target for building the project and trying to eliminate the risks
that were found in the previous phase (Kerzner, 2017). However, the various risk

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management strategies such as identifying risks, risk avoidance, mitigating risks,
transfer and acceptance can be used for managing threads and negative risk associated
with this project.
 Risk control and monitoring: The identification of various residual risks, monitoring
risks, executing individual risk plans and thereby evaluate the effectiveness by
reducing the risks involved in the project (Giannakis & Papadopoulos, 2016). The
different functions involved in this project is to determine
The continuous improvement in order to manage risk it is required to start a lean
implementation strategy into risk processes. The process involves the proper
acknowledgement of the stakeholders (Birkie, 2016). To identify several wastes associated
with building the home, the manager should utilize the lean techniques such as cause-and-
effect diagram that helps to eliminate the non-value activities and added value activities in the
development of the project.

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