Assingnment on Leading Lean Project

Running head: LEADING LEAN PROJECT
Leading Lean Project
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Table of Contents
Introduction:....................................................................................................................................2
1) Project Management Process for Building the Dream Home:....................................................2
1 a) Finalising the Client’s Requirement:....................................................................................2
1 b) Ensuring Communication with Stakeholders are Effective and Efficient:...........................3
1 c) Subcontractors and Vendors are effectively and efficiently managed:................................4
2) Explanation regarding Lean Project Management for Building the Home:................................5
2 a) Implementing Lean Management for Finalising Client’s Requirement:..............................5
2 b) Implementing Lean Management for ensuring Communication with Project Stakeholders:
.....................................................................................................................................................6
2 c) Implementing Lean Management for ensuring Subcontractors and Vendors are managed
effectively and efficiently:...........................................................................................................6
Conclusion:......................................................................................................................................7
References:......................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction:
Project management is the exercise of various of important aspects which includes
planning, initiating, controlling, executing, and closing a work of a team so that some precise
goals can be achieved (Kerzner, 2017). Here, the project management also targets to achieve
some specific success criteria within some specific amount of time. The main challenge which is
related with project management is achieving goals of the project within the specified constrains.
Among practices of project management there is lean project management. The lean
project managements is actually considered as utilization of the lean concepts and it comprises
lean manufacturing, lean construction, lean thinking and lean manufacturing regarding the
project management (Sunder M, 2016). The lean project management aims to minimise the
overall waste while it aims to maximise the overall value of a project.
Here, lean project management will be utilized for constructing a dream home for a
client. As mentioned earlier, the lean project management can reduce the waste for a project and
can increase the value of a project, this can be helpful for building the dream home for the client.
Thus, the lean project management will be helping in this case for building the dream home
project.
1) Project Management Process for Building the Dream Home:
The current project is regarding building a dream home for the assigned client. In this
project the total budget of the client is AUD$ 500,000 and the timeline for building the home is
12 months. Thus, the budget of the client is limited and deadline for the project is also quite
short. Thus, implementation of the lean project management for building this home is quite
important. Also, it is crucial to select proper project management processes for this project.
Specifically, for this project some important tasks need to be executed and for them appropriate
project management processes is required (Perkins, Jugdev & Mathur, 2018). In the following
section, these project management processes are elaborated briefly.
1 a) Finalising the Client’s Requirement:
Before proceeding with the project it is crucial to finalise all the vital requirement of the
project for successful completion of the project. Thus, in the first stage of the project it is vital to

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finalize all the requirement regarding project for execution of the project in a specific direction
without any type of disruption. This will minimise the wastages in the project and will also
provide better value to the project. Thus, all the requirement of the project need to be prepared
and it need to be finalized. The project requirement should be rechecked with the client’s
requirement before finalising and proceeding with the project. Here, project management process
of project planning has been selected for finalization of the requirement of client. Here, finalizing
of the requirement of the project is actually defining the project scope (Shirazi, Kazemipoor &
Tavakkoli-Moghaddam, 2017). For defining the scope of the project, project planning process is
the most appropriate in this case and for this reason it has been selected in this context. The
project planning refers everything which is crucial to achieve the project success (Harris et al.,
2018). The project planning will explain the project scope and will help in successful execution
of the project. By utilization of project planning, resources can be allocated to the project
effectively as budget and allotted time of the project is already known. In this way by the use of
project management process of project planning, all the requirement of the client can be
finalized.
1 b) Ensuring Communication with Stakeholders are Effective and Efficient:
To ensure proper execution of the project, it is vital to confirm that communication with
the stakeholders is done in some efficient and effective manner. If the communication with
project stakeholder is collapsed then it is very much natural that the project will fail to achieve its
ultimate goal. Thus, it is crucial to ensure proper communication with the project stakeholders.
For ensuring effective and efficient communication with the project stakeholders it is important
to control and validate the communication of the project (Butt, Naaranoja & Savolainen, 2016).
Due to this fact, project management process of control and validation has been selected so that
the communication of this project can be controlled and validated. In this way, it can be ensured
that the communication with the stakeholders are efficient and effective. Here, communication
with the project stakeholders is controlled by adhering the initial protocol of project management
plan (Binder, 2016). Through, adhering the original project communication plan, effective and
efficient project communication plan is ensured. The validation is also important in this context
as it act as a supporting activity for the project (Moghiseh, Mousavi & Patoghi, 2019). Each of
the activity related with the project should be consisting an own validation criteria of it so that
successful completion of the project can be ensured. This is also the same for project