Book Review: Lean Project Delivery – Building Championship Project Teams
2018
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Author: Thaís da C. L. Alves
Citation:
Da, T., & Alves, C. (2018). Book Review: Lean Project Delivery -Building Championship Project Teams. In Lean Construction Journal pp. 88-91.
Abstract:
This review aims at sharing with the Lean Construction Institute’s audience some comments about the book recently written by David Umstot and Dan Fauchier: Lean Project Delivery – Building Championship Project Teams (ISBN: 9781975684013), published by Armchair ePublishing. Umstot’s and Fauchier’s experiences as professionals and consultants, in the construction industry in a multitude of projects and scenarios, support their narrative and enriches the discussion about Lean tools and their implementation presented to practitioners and academics alike. The book reviews existing ideas and nicely package them to a broad audience interested in learning about Lean Project Delivery (LPD). The book takes the readers on a journey that starts with a discussion of what is Lean and goes through important tenets of the Lean literature and how they are applied in the construction industry under the Lean Construction philosophy. The book wisely ends with a chapter entitled “Pulling it all together: how to create and sustain Lean organizations” offering pieces of advice on how an organization should move on with their Lean efforts. The chapters can be read in the order they are set in the book to support the authors’ thoughtful approach to group closely related concepts and tools in chapters next to one another. Alternatively, the reader might decide to venture through the book looking for another. Alternatively, the reader might decide to venture through the book looking for low hanging fruits such as root cause analysis, A3 reports, or value stream maps, which are tools that support the analysis of a current state and the planning of future/improved states.