Lean Project Management

Course details

This course is delivered on an in-house basis only.

Lean project management is about delivering more value with less waste in a project context. It is about simplifying project leadership to satisfy your stakeholders in the shortest amount of time, while minimising stress on project participants and waste. A project leader has to consider a number of elements. The trick is balancing the elements, and deciding when and where to focus.

Most project managers decide to use lean project management strategies when faced with budget cuts or other constrains. Tasked with eliminating waste throughout a project or a process, managers can discover how to make their teams more effective using fewer resources.

Course Description

Lean Project Management adopts a simple and pragmatic approach that you will immediately find useful. Successful project managers know how to align what they do with the needs of the particular project. Benefits of the lean project management approach include:

• More successful projects (satisfied customers and project team, full-scope, on-time, under-budget).

  Faster project completion.

• Simple project status.

• Reduced unnecessary project paperwork.

• Clear signals on when to take action on the project.

• Reduced pressure on project team members.

• Reduction of the waste that causes project delays: multi-tasking, queuing, Student Syndrome, Parkinson's law.

• Project managers

• Managers of project managers

• Programme managers

• Continuous improvement managers and team members

• Process owners / developers

Learning Outcomes

Successful project delivery requires leading the system, comprised of people, process, and product. You must define an effective system for your environment and projects. Lean thinking enhances conventional project delivery systems in the areas of project planning, execution, and control to eliminate waste and consistently deliver successful project results.

• Align your project stakeholders so they help you achieve project success.

  Create a project solution that really meets your stakeholders' needs.

• Plan your work so that your project team can complete their contributions with little stress.

• Apply simple project measurement to help your project team and assure everyone who cares about your project knows what they need to know, when the need to know it.

• Complete your projects in "half the time, all the time."