LeanKit for Construction

How Construction is Changing

Trends

• Increase process efficiency

• Deliver projects faster

• Remove variation and waste

Challenges

• Lack of shared visibility into work

• Miscommunicated handoffs

• Projects in disparate systems

The construction industry needs better tools to support the trend toward greater

collaboration.

Lean is the future of AEC

Lean projects achieve better results:

• 84% achieved higher quality projects

• 77% achieved greater productivity

• 64% achieved improved profitability (reduced costs)

And it’s quickly gaining momentum:

• 43% have implemented Lean (to some extent)

• 27% are familiar with Lean

• 30% are still unfamiliar

Source: McGraw Hill Construction, 2013 Smart Market Report on Lean Construction

1960s-1980s 1980s 1990s 2000s Today

TOC

Just-In-Time

Lean Manufacturing

Healthcare

System Engineering

ConstructionToyota

Six Sigma

TQM

Agile

XP

Scrum

Focus on flow / feedback vs. “efficiency”

Lean Startup

Lean – A multi-industry trend

Last Planner

Kanban

Master

Schedule

•Key Phases & Milestones of the whole project•Detailed schedule may be built for budgeting•Or historic data used as well/instead•But details not considered a baseline that constrains further planning

Phase Plann

ing

•Outline schedule of the next project phase – especially for complex areas• Last Planners work backwards to identify and schedule activities• Focus is on shared understanding of goals & problem solving• Feeds back to master schedule for logic ties and testing

Look Ahea

d Plann

ing

•Rolling breakdown of detailed daily tasks by Last Planners•Goal is minimum duration, zero float sequencing of tasks• Float risks are identified as constraints•Those constraints should be removed prior to week of execution

Weekly

Work Plann

ing

• Last Planners make specific commitments – to each other – for this week’s work•Meet in daily huddles to keep close track on progress•Measure their Planned Percent Complete & reasons for variance• Implement continuous improvement ideas to reduce most common variances

The Last Planner System

Should

Can

Will

Did

Project

3-6 months

4-6 weeks

Now

Eliminate Waste

Build Quality In

Create Knowledge

Defer Commitment

Deliver Fast

Respect People

Optimize the Whole

Lean

Process

Skille

d People Tools & Tech

1. Work-In-Process2. Delays3. Extra Features4. Technical Debt5. Handoffs6. Task Switching7. Defects

Avoid cargo cult adoption, i.e. 5S your desk

Lean extends well beyond scheduling1. Inventory2. Idle Time3. Overproduction4. Processing5. Transport 6. Operator Motion7. Bad Quality

Knowledge Work

Physical Production

Great results balanced against admin overhead

Vs.

Advantages of electronic Last Planner

• Avoids duplicate data entry

• Update from anywhere, at anytime

• No manual effort for Lean reports

• Stay in synch with your master schedule

• No worries about change control

• Unlimited space for project info

• Easily find and make updates when needed

• Apply learning to your next project

LeanKit Company Overview

• Growing SaaS company with products oriented around Lean management principles

• Used by more than 50,000 teams worldwide every day• Headquarters in Nashville, TN• Recognized by Gartner as an innovative PM solution in 2013• 16th Annual LCI Congress sponsor and exhibitor• Oracle Primavera Gold Partner• Leadership team speak internationally on Lean and Agile

Customers Who Trust LeanKit

Lean Construction Community

“LeanKit brought me in to train their staff on the AGC's Lean Construction curriculum. I was impressed by their team's enthusiasm to really understand the needs of their customers so they can deliver a great product. I think they're a very interesting new player in the Lean Project Delivery software space. We're excited to start exploring LeanKit with our clients at ASKM Associates.”

- Colin Milberg, Lean Construction Consultant

Looks and feels like physical card wall

Drag-and-drop simplicity, real-time updates

Cards can carry much more information

You know who did what, when

Charts and reports are painless

Planned percent complete, constraint logs, cycle time and process variability, and data for custom

reporting

Two-way integration with Primavera P6

• Automatically load pull plan results to P6• Feed LeanKit as activities are due for look ahead

planning• Load status data back to P6 without risk to master

schedule• APIs allow your IT to build other integrations

To learn more

About Lean

• McGraw Hill Smart Market Report Lean Constructionwww.leanconstruction.org/media/docs/Lean_Construction_SMR_2013.pdf

• Lean Construction Institutewww.leanconstruction.org

• Association of General Contractorwww.agc.org/cs/career_development/LCEP

About LeanKit

• www.leankit.co

• Signup for a free-trial account

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