Managing Projects

"Lean" came from car manufacturing and then spread to other manufacturing generally. A lot of people then identified it with car making or some other form of "making" and did not apply lean principles to other types of work. Why? Do you think waste only exists in factories?

One of the reasons "lean" is linked to factories is that it is easier to spot waste - you can look at a skip and there it is. Waste in an office or in a project is more invisible. The main item wasted in a project is usually time, which becomes visible only when it is translated into money. By then, however, time has moved on and with it, opportunities.

Greenfile Developments can help you address wastes in projects by looking at the issues you face in managing a project, such as:

• fire fighting
• getting stuck in approval cycle/revision loops
• over-delivering to customers
• inflexible and unsuitable work procedures
• skills gap
• prioritising workloads

We have adapted the "lean" toolkit and cherry-picked the best management practices to develop an effective lean project management package with tools including:

Six Sigma Quality 5S/CAN DO Waste Reduction

Value Chain analysis Balanced Scorecard methods for project management

Project Management can be "lean", we will show you how to trim waste from projects and work with you to deliver projects that maximise value. 

Contact us to discuss how you can manage projects in a lean enterprise.