Beyond Meeting Rooms: The Hidden Dynamics of Interdisciplinary Design Collaboration

Effective collaboration in interdisciplinary design meetings is critical for successful project delivery. Yet, despite the presence of all key stakeholders around the same table, collaboration often falters.

How to Create Efficient and Effective Supply Chains

COVID 19, the war in Ukraine, industrial action at ports and several other factors, are causing supply chain challenges across all industries including engineering and construction. Additionally, project supply chains are known to be inherently complex and dynamic.

Driving Projects with Scrum and its Rhizomatic Model

The "Desire to Build" is a powerful force that can be channeled with Scrum into predefined Events for planning, monitoring and improvement. It is the space where the Scrum Pillars interact and allows for innovation and overcoming structures that deliver exceptional results.

Culture Shift - How to Overcome the Transaction Trap

The need to shift the attitudes of people working in an organization is recognized by many leaders, especially the leader who has led successful organizations in the past and takes responsibility for the leadership of a different organization.

AI Isn't Just Another Tool—It's a New Way of Thinking

In my experience implementing lean principles in software and design, there are few more lean-enabling technologies than AI. Do hours of research in a few minutes. Upload a spreadsheet, and ask for insights.

Conditions of Satisfaction: Three Complacency Traps

Budget, schedule, and quality are hailed as the “big three” primary performance indicators in construction projects, and they’re certainly important, but do they really demonstrate whether the project was successful?

High-Performance Leadership #10 - Facilitation of Collaborative Problem Solving

In this tenth and final post, we present more of what you need to know to become a High-Performance Leader. In this post we finish the discussion of collaborative problem solving started in HPL Post #9. This post presents a facilitator’s roadmap for a series of small agreements that lead to a solid final agreement.

The Big Pull Planning Mistake Projects Make

Many project leaders have been conditioned to understand a good plan as a good schedule. Believing they have a good schedule; the expectation is that every player on a project team will be able to follow the schedule and the project will progress as planned. This can work on a slow-paced project in which the natural variability in productivity has little impact.

Building an internal lean infrastructure to scale up lean deployment in a company with over 10,000 employees

WasteWalk Observations have led to the identification of over $300MM worth of estimated and $52MM of actual net cost savings/added value on over 300 projects and yards. 2024 saw the highest employee engagement in WasteWalks since introducing them as a Building Smarter best practice in 2022.

Last Planner and Takt Software Directory

This directory contains all of the Last Planner and Takt Software on the market. We encourage you to do your own research, set up a call with the vendors, and choose the software that fits your needs. This directory is meant to make it easy to find, compare, and make the decision on which software you can use.