Lean Project Management - Case Study

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Lean Project Management
Introduction to lean Project Management Approaches
Lean project management refers to the approach that focuses on improving decision
making process while reducing waste. Lean project management eliminates existence of
obstacles that might prevent or slow down an organizations value addition processes and steps.
Lean project management is consistent in finding out ways to improve a projects process of
management and also applies just-in-time approach to reduce unnecessary work (Dowson, et
al., 2019). Lean project management is an approach that understands an organizations products
and also finds out necessary activities that improve the organizations ability to increase value.
Principles of Lean Project Management
Specifies Value: The value of a product refers to the “a capability provided to a customer
at the right time at an appropriate price, as defined in each case by the customer. “hence, the
customer’s pronunciation states value making it difficult to focus on what customers are ready to
pay.” (Dowson, et al., 2019).
Identify the Value for Every Product: These include actions i.e. value added and non-
vale added that are need at the moment to manufacture a product from raw material to finished
products for the customer. This can be achieved by identifying the present state of the method
being treated through a value map. The map will assist in analyzing value creation and waste and
the future possibility identified and created by the map which will guide the process (Cruz-
Villazon, et al., 2019) . The plan is then generated and improved creating transformation from
the prevailing state to future state.
Eliminating Waste Through Make Value Flow: After defining value, a value stream is
acknowledged enabling a continuous flow and reducing any backflow, rework and any

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interruption likely to occur or those that exist. Work is categorized into three section to analyze
value stream. i.e. value-added work that is necessary to make changes to a product of survive.
This category is maximized to offer customer value. The second category is the value-enabling
work which involves potential elimination in the imminent period and not immediate
elimination. This state allows for analyzation of the present process. It also involves culture,
environment and technology that minimize the present work. The third category is the non-value-
added work which is usually eliminated swiftly and does not rely on improvement of other
sections. It involves a total waste and does not require any individual. Wastes are also grouped
into seven categories. This include inventory i.e. maintain raw material inventory and finished
goods. Motion, includes wasted motion that pick stack parts, defects involves rework and repairs,
waiting involves any non-working time, over production and transportation i.e. wasted time to
transport finished goods, materials and between processes (Dowson, et al., 2019).
Pull the Flow: In this principle, the project encounters challenge in delivering value prior
to customer request. The customer should not be given that which exceeds agreed initial scope.
The customers use the Kanban system to pull the flow. Through the Kanban system, it offers
application of just-in-time system. It applies cards that signals the need for a product as it
triggers the movement, supply and production of a unit of a product (Cruz-Villazon, et al.,
2019).
Consistent Improvement to Attain Perfection: This principle involves incorporation of
the final steps to attain perfection that would result to transformation to a lean belief. To purse
perfection, improvement will be consistent and thus questions the importance of every activity. It

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would mean that we would often strive to get closer to perfection (Cruz-Villazon, et al.,
2019).
Literature Review
One of the key elements in the Australian construction industry is productivity. Studies
show that a huge level of costs in production is contributed by wasted. Lean production aims at
producing a product and designing such a product according to customer’s specifications as it
incorporates efficiency on the system of production (Dixit, et al., 2019). The National Institute
of Standards and Technology Manufacturing Extension Partnership’s Lean Network claims that
the lean approach reduces wastage and often improve processes to maintain the rate of
production according to customer needs (Ausherman, 2019). Manufacturing sectors and
companies. Such as Ford Production and Toyota among other brands practically involve lean in
their processes of production.
The growth in different economies witnessed in the current world incorporates
construction as the key contributors to their GDPs. Urbanization has taken the central role of
increasing population in urban sectors making urban population to multiply greatly (Helu &
Weiss, 2016). Economies encounter a challenge to keep up with rising populations and the
unstable economies. Governments, therefore, develop initiatives to support infrastructure and
housing among other services to the people. many countries are adopting the “housing for all
policies” to ensure that citizens acquire affordable houses in the urban centers (Chaturvedi, et
al., 2018).
Developers have through such projects acquired opportunities to ensure that the projects
are completed within the required time (Ansah, et al., 2016). Material suppliers and housing
companies are not left aside as they form part of the stakeholders in such projects. Since