Lean Project Management Training and Methodology

This training addresses the planning, risk management and team coordination failures that cause projects to miss targets and generate avoidable cost and rework, including:

• Project planning that underestimates uncertainty, dependencies, and resource constraints, leading to unrealistic schedules.
• Poorly defined project scope and objectives, resulting in scope changes, rework, and misaligned stakeholder expectations.
• Reactive risk management that identifies issues too late to prevent delays and cost overruns.
• Weak planning and coordination practices that reduce commitment, reliability, and execution performance.
• Limited project visibility, weak collaboration, and ineffective project governance, reducing decision-making speed and overall project performance.

Build the capabilities to apply lean project management tools from project definition through planning, execution and visual management, delivering projects that meet customer requirements on time, within budget and with minimal rework:

• Introduction to Lean Project Management: Understand how lean principles apply to project environments and what distinguishes lean project management from traditional approaches.
• Project kick-off and project charter: Structure the project start with a clear charter, aligning objectives, scope, roles, and stakeholder expectations.
• Project design and phase-gate model: Structure projects through defined phases, decision gates, and clear deliverables that align teams, improve governance, and enable reliable execution.
• Critical Chain Planning and buffer management: Apply Critical Chain Project Management to manage constraints, protect project flow, and improve schedule reliability.
• Last Planner: Apply the Last Planner System to improve planning reliability, team commitment, and execution performance.
• Visual Project Management and obeya: Design and use visual project management and obeya to improve transparency, coordination, and decision making.
• Obeya Control meetings: Structure regular project review meetings to monitor progress, identify issues early, and coordinate corrective actions.
• Stakeholder engagement: Engage stakeholders effectively throughout the project lifecycle to maintain alignment, manage expectations, and support successful project delivery.

Participants leave with the capabilities to structure projects for success from kick-off, apply reliable planning tools and use visual management to maintain team alignment and project flow. Key learnings include:

• Define project scope, objectives and team structure using a project charter that creates shared alignment before execution begins.
• Design projects using phase-gate management to improve planning, decision making, and execution.
• Apply Critical Chain Planning and buffer management to improve schedule reliability and manage project uncertainty.
• Implement the Last Planner System to improve short-term planning reliability through collaborative commitment and systematic constraint removal.
• Design and operate an obeya visual management system that keeps the project team aligned, makes progress visible and enables rapid response to emerging issues.
• Structure stakeholder engagement across project phases to maintain alignment, manage expectations and sustain the decisions and inputs needed for on-time delivery.