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JI for Professional Work

Learning fromLean Construction Experiments

Hal MacomberLean Project Consulting, Inc.

Lean Project Consulting

Consultants/coaches to the AEC and EPC industries based in Louisville, CO and 6 other cities

Purposely eclectic staff of 10 full-time coaches Architecture; Mechanical, Electrical, Civil, Industrial, and

Architectural Engineering; Linguistics, Project Management

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Our Path

Started with JI-style to support standard work Presented at TWI Summit 2007 Sponsored JI and JR training with clients Created JI for LPC's consulting practices Attended TWI's Train-the-Trainer for JI –

4 qualified instructors Taught JI to three groups in conjunction with

work breakdown workshops

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Work Breakdown Workshops

Where did it come from? We heard from experienced trainers that JI course

participants don't follow through breaking down jobs and doing training

PDCA everything! Learning-in-action requires coaching

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Our Approach

JI Course Monday PM – JI Lesson Tue thru Fri AM – JI Lessons

Job Breakdown Workshops Tue thru Thu PM – Small group work Fri AM – Agree to training plan

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Experiments at 4 Firms

Fast-growing hi-tech specialty contractor Turner Construction Top-ten design firm LPC's Consulting practice

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Hi-Tech Specialty Contractor

Challenge: Company doubling every year.Prepare for large influx of new employees doing key jobs.

Approach: JI Instruction and Job Breakdown Workshops for 5 key functions

Outcome: Mixed. JI Trainees gave positive reviews, but didn't follow thru. Company now contracting for recording standard work.

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Turner Construction

Challenge: Raise the level of competence and adopt standard approaches for shop drawing reviews.

Approach: JI Instruction and Job Breakdown Workshops with the 6 best project engineers.

Outcome: Positive reviews. JI trained engineers teaching the other 70 engineers.

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AE (Design) Firm

Challenge: Teach project leaders new roles in lean project delivery for design projects

Approach: Developed job breakdowns that were introduced JI-style, revised, and then used to introduce others to the roles.

Results: Very well received. Project leaders have quickly demonstrated proficiency. Will be employed on a very large program as start of company-wide deployment.

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Lean Project Consulting

Challenge: Standardize and teach key coaching approaches to new staff members.

Approach: Develop JI for lean construction practices and coaching approaches.

Outcome: Coaching staff able to step in for each other resulting in positive client assessments.

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LPC Examples

Study-Action Teams™Instruction for organizing, conducting and follow-up

Pull PlanningInstruction for organizing, conducting and follow-up

5 WhysInstruction for adopting the 5 Why habit

Responsibility-based Project Delivery™Full system is described as JI

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Sample JI for 5 Why

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Lessons

PDCA everything Create opportunities for trainees to do job

breakdowns Coach people in groups while they do their first

job breakdowns Use the JI training plan to get trainees training

quickly JI works reliably for knowledge work