Recent Site Wide Posts
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Matt Horvat wrote a new blog post: Project Leader 1 week, 2 days ago · View
Andy Jordan writes about the easy stuff, the hard stuff and the forgotten stuff about Project Management in his article Project Manager vs. Project Leader . He first describes leadership then discusses motivating the team (the easy stuff), not overburdening the team (the hard stuff) and developing the capability of the team (the forgotten stuff). I can’t [...]
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Matt Horvat wrote a new blog post: If you play with $#!^ long enough… 2 weeks, 1 day ago · View
“If you are going to play with $#!^, no matter how long the stick is, you’ll get some of it on you.” Paul Wampler (1896-1988). This was my great grandpa. He was right. I knew growing up that I needed to get around people and things that I wanted to be a part of.This same bit of [...] -
Matt Horvat wrote a new blog post: Peer Coaching 3 weeks, 1 day ago · View
I was in a class at my gym the other day. This particular class is one that I have gone to many times. I knew the routine and the instruction. A couple of my good friends also regularly attend. Now, exercise can be a personal choice and a personal experience, but learning the routine and [...]
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Matt Horvat wrote a new blog post: Establish the Process 1 month ago · View
I walk into a contractor’s office and am pretty rapidly exhausted with trying to figure out what is going on. What you see are some safety related posters, a copy machine, stack of office supplies, drawings, dirt, desks and doors. Overstuffed filing cabinets and stacks of paper shuffled in the corners. You’ll see dirt on the [...] -
Hal Macomber wrote a new blog post: LPC & TRG NOW COLLABORATING 1 month, 3 weeks ago · View
Lean Project Consulting (LPC), the industry’s pioneering lean transformation consulting and coaching firm, and The ReAlignment Group, Ltd. (TRG), a unique provider of facilitation services for lean partnering, team building and Integrated Project Delivery, have announced the signing of a formal Memorandum of Understanding to provide collaborative, coordinated services to the design and construction industry. [...]
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Matt Horvat wrote a new blog post: Beat the Plateau of Improving Safety 3 months, 2 weeks ago · View
Is Quick and Easy Kaizen a way to establish a habit of identifying hazards? It seems like every time I walk on a jobsite I see a worker without proper PPE, or some obstacle on the floor, or sharp metal objects stacked up. I know other people notice these things, yet nothing is done. There [...]
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Matt Horvat wrote a new blog post: Start at Check 3 months, 2 weeks ago · View
A webcrawler just pointed me to an image of the learning cycle, PDCA (plan do check adjust). (http://bit.ly/d8KoYE). There is an astrix with “Start Here” next to the Check. Funny, I thought. Usually I plan first. But it makes sense to first check to see if there is a need to take action. Usually I have [...]
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Matt Horvat wrote a new blog post: New Construction Contract 3 months, 4 weeks ago · View
The new contract affiliated with Lean Construction has been garnering a lot of talk. When I mention the Integrated Form of Agreement (IFOA) or Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) at industry sponsored cocktail parties I usually get some level of interest and a lot of confusion from people. Engineering News Record (ENR), a popular construction related newsmagazine just [...]
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rebecca-bettler wrote a new blog post: Building the Pyramids 4 months, 3 weeks ago · View
I recently had the opportunity to spend some time in Egypt. On our way to the Great Pyramid, our group of twelve had a lively conversation about the builders of the pyramids. There were a couple of theories in our group about this. Some of my fellow travelers believe slaves built the pyramids, as I [...] -
rebecca-bettler wrote a new blog post: To Pay or Not to Pay? 1 year, 2 months ago · View
One of the keys of a good Quick ‘n Easy Kaizen ( QnEK) program is that we want QnEK to become a habit within the organization. We want our employees to continuously be thinking and acting on ways to make things better. This is a critical step that we can take to reduce the waste [...]
