In Person Educational Lean Program

Are you looking to improve the outcomes of your capital projects? The Lean Construction Institute commissioned two research efforts done by Dodge Data & Analytics and University of Minnesota which examined 172 projects to discover what makes projects excel. In The Business Case for Lean Project Delivery Webinar, the research results will be presented along with a consideration of ways designers and constructors can improve project outcomes. This webinar is an important step in learning about this important research, outcomes and promote fact-driven Lean and IPD knowledge across the industry.

Construction teams looking to improve the value being produced by workers and to create safer working environments conduct Gemba Walks. In the Gemba Walks For Construction course, participants will gain insight into the what, why and how to successfully implement this method to support their projects. This course is important to developing a positive continuous improvement mindset on your projects.

Most project teams seek ways to add more value for their clients while meeting schedule and budget requirements. By focusing on value and recognizing the various types of waste in project delivery processes, productivity can be increased by implementing the Lean approaches taught in Introduction to Lean Project Delivery. In this course, you will gain insight to Lean Project Delivery by understanding how Lean connects people, principles and practices to optimize results by shifting both thinking and behaviors. This course, which includes real-life design and construction examples will be an important step on your journey to becoming a Lean Thinker. The event includes a simulation to support the learning.

Similar to during construction, unpredictable workflows correlate with an increase to project costs and schedules during the design (preconstruction) phases. The Last Planner System® (LPS®) is an effective approach to improving the delivery of projects during these phases. In the Last Planner System® In Design course participants will gain insight as to how collaborative planning will improve their delivery process and outcomes as relevant to the specifics of design. This course is an important step in learning to stabilize your delivery process by keeping all team members’ needs being reliably met.

Lean is increasingly being used in Design-Build project delivery and naturally supports and builds on the collaborative environment necessary for success in design-build. Learn how Lean naturally fits into design-build delivery and how you can integrate Lean into your design-build projects. The concepts of Big Room, Last Planner System® and Target Value Design are all integral to building successful teams that in turn deliver successful projects. Target Value Design is a key component in the growing application of Progressive Design-Build to enhance the value proposition for owners.

During the Design Phase, teams seek ways to improve client outcomes while maximizing design excellence.  Lean in the Design Phase participants gain insight to Lean approaches and tools relative to the design phase to optimize team communication, collaboration and results. Learners will understand how a Lean strategy can drive innovative solutions by connecting people, principles and practices. This course is foundationally important for anyone involved in preconstruction to improve the impact you are having on the project outcomes.  Group table activities and a Lean simulation exercise support the learning experience.

High-performing teams function on collaborative brain power to rapidly advance work and add value by operating in a Big Room setting. Effective Big Rooms are only possible with the mindset and behaviors that break down the traditional silos to allow for cross-functional team collaboration and decision-making.  Through the Mindset of an Effective Big Room course, you will gain a foundational understanding of the concept of a Big Room by learning the benefits, purpose, and implementation considerations.  This course will lead you to understanding how to improve collaboration and drive transparency within your team to optimize project outcomes. It is a highly interactive experiential learning session.

Staying within the allowable budget and ensuring the team’s innovation increases value to the customer and decreases waste are attributes of successful project delivery and can be achieved through Target Value Delivery (TVD).  In the Target Value Delivery course, you will gain an understanding of the phases and key components of TVD and will discover how the components interact together to improve the process and outcome of the project.  This highly interactive course will provide a repeatable approach to exploring value and empowering your team to optimize the return on investment for the project.

Kaizen means a change for the better. A Kaizen event is about taking the current state of a process or value stream, make it better and keep it that way…until the next improvement. The Kaizen Events course will help you to “put it all together” to improve flow efficiency for processes. In this course, you will gain an understanding to implement Lean principles, methods and tools to see waste in your current process and how to design and implement a sustainable improved process. This course is an important step on your Lean journey to mastering process improvement.

As project teams look to advance improvements to workflow, implementing 5S as a core Lean method leads to better efficiency by keeping the jobsite organized, clean, safe and productive.  By participating the 5S In Construction course, you will discover the 5S steps as primarily appropriate to the field, but also as it relates to design and procurement.  This course will take you through the principles of 5S, a fun activity as an example to the importance 5S, and real-life examples in support of implementing 5S on your projects.

Are you ready to make your work exponentially easier and valuable to your organization?  Scrum harnesses the power of individuals working together as a team.  Double your productivity using this framework with less effort.  This tactical course is geared for individuals and teams with Lean practitioner experience. Workshop resources will be provided to guide scaling up to fully functional Scrum teams.

This hands-on workshop will integrate learning with practical application working sessions for identifying and planning lean methods. Learning will commence with an explanation of the Lean Deployment Planning Guide and resources that support the steps of the planning process for a project including: initiate, select, plan and integrate. Participants will gain an understanding of each resource included in the guide and how it may be implemented during the planning process. A case study where the Lean Deployment Guide was used by the project team to develop method-specific A3s for implementation will be shared. During the facilitated working sessions, participants will experience developing a Lean deployment plan for a simulation project, using the guide resources to select project methods, create a method-specific A3 plan and begin to integrate methods into the project dashboard for tracking and management. 

Most facility/project Owners have a basic understanding of what Lean means, but may not know enough to truly “speak the language,” understand which Lean strategies are best suited to a particular project or process improvement effort, and lead the team.  Two of the industry’s leading organizations – COAA and LCI, the experts when it comes to Owners and Lean – have partnered to fill that knowledge void.  This 1-day course will provide a broad overview of Lean tenets and fundamentals and equip attendees with the ability to implement at least three Lean techniques on their projects or within their organization.  As with other COAA Owner Training Institute® courses, learners will be led by a 3-person instructor team comprised of an Owner, design professional, and builder to ensure all perspectives are included.

Are you looking to bring out the most creative and innovative problem-solving power of your team?  Best solutions are the ones developed collaboratively by teasing out the ideas from team members.  In the Rev Up Your Team By Unleashing Their Potential course, participants will learn about Liberating Structures (LS) as easy to use facilitation methods.  These structures inject tiny shifts in the protocols of how we meet, plan, decide and relate to each other that put the facilitative power once reserved for experts only in the hands of everyone. You will experience and learn to use several Liberating Structures (LS) in a virtual environment using typical software platforms.  During the interactive session, participants will progress through a string of Liberating Structures to work through some of the biggest challenges facing this industry today.  This is an important course if you want to be able to immediately start using LS to unleash innovation and collaboration in your teams.

This intermediate level workshop will build upon your awareness of Last Planner System® through experiencing all 5 connected conversations in hands-on application.  This workshop will include the essential foundational principles of each conversation, which you will immediately put into action through a simulated project to gain practical experience.  You will practice the actions in each of the required 5 connected conversations to be effective with full Last Planner System® implementation.

The prerequisites for this workshop are: LCI Introduction to Last Planner System® either in-person or eLearning to ensure awareness of the fundamentals and language to level-set the participants.

Practice and learn effective coaching techniques as presented by seasoned coaches. This interactive workshop is appropriate for:

• A lean champion that wants to grow into the role of a lean coach. 
• A new coach that wants to refine their skills and network with other coaches.
• A leader supporting lean teams who wants to sharpen their coaching skills.

All participants will have an opportunity to ask the hard questions and learn specific tools to enhance your project experience.