LCI SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE
Welcome to the LCI Southern New England Community of Practice (CoP)!
We are a community of owners, contractors, trade partners, architects, and designers with various levels of Lean experience who are passionate about applying lean principles and practices with a common goal of improving project outcomes and delivering value to our Owners. We repeatedly ask “why” to get to root causes and are not afraid to step outside of our comfort zones and try new and different approaches to increase stakeholder satisfaction and project delivery value. We also recognize that we are much stronger as collaborators than as separate thinkers, so we welcome your participation. We are seeking A/E/C/O industry professionals who want to join us “to find a better way”. In the spirit of continuous improvement, we are eager to learn from your experiences and share ours.
Our CoP regional focus spans from Connecticut to Western Massachusetts. If you would like to become involved in our CoP or to request specific topics of interest for future CoP events, please contact us at [email protected].
SNE CoP Mission
To create a rewarding and thriving culture and industry, that is a model to other industries, by continuously striving to:
- Expand stakeholder participation with and knowledge of Lean, across the workforce and industry, especially with owners and trade partners
- Provide Lean education
- Promote Lean collaboration
- Build community support for Lean
2022 SNE CoP Core Group:
Leader - Matt Belcher, PDS Engineering & Construction
Vice Leader - Rhonia Moreau, Gilbane Building Company
Member - Brad Aldinger, Haley & Aldrich
Member - Joe Ferrucci, F&F Mechanical
Member - Matt LeBarron, Yale University
Member - Colin Milberg, ASKM Associates
Member - Ryan Popp, ASKM Associates
Member - Emily Ruggeri, Turner Construction Company
Leader Emeritus - Elena Antil, Daniel O'Connell Sons
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UPCOMING National LCI Events
LCIs Southern New England Community of Practice PAST Events
Construction Scrum for Easier, Better, and Faster Change (Southern New England CoP)
May 3, 2022 @ 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm
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Are you beginning your Lean Construction journey or a seasoned professional ready to adapt to change? Use construction Scrum to deliver easier, better, and faster. Join other owners, designers, project managers, superintendents, trade managers/partners, engineers, VDC managers, and project leaders enabling their teams to adapt and accelerate. Scrum harnesses the power of simple rules to thrive in complex environments. This tactical workshop provides hands-on onboarding to use Scrum individually, and we will focus on individual change making for your project team, department, or company. Attendees will also receive resources to support their Scrum practice.
Learning Objectives:
- Gain an overview understanding of the Scrum framework and terminology.
- Understand the relationship between Scrum and Lean
- Experience hands-on application of Scrum.
- Use the Scrum framework individually to plan and execute change in your project, department, or company.
- Want to learn more now, find out what is Scrum and who uses it with this blog post.
https://www.theebfcshow.com/blog/construction-scrum-case-studies/
Lean - Crossing the Starting Line (Southern New England CoP)
March 3, 2022 @ 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
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Thinking of dipping your toes into the Lean Construction waters? There are many ways to get started on your Lean Journey, and to explore this, The LCI Southern New England Community of Practice will be hosting a virtual event on March 3rd entitled “Lean - Crossing the Starting Line”. Our speakers will discuss their real life implementation of various Lean Construction practices that helped them to get started with improved construction communication, planning, and execution.
Using real life examples, discussions will include the implementation of Daily Huddles, Last Planner System, and other ways that you can start you own Lean Journey. Our various speakers will bring perspective from multiple industry angles to help you connect with your way to get started.
This is a great way to start 2022!
A Lean Brew - CoPs Joint Event (Southern New England / DC Metro / New York State CoP)
July 14, 2020 @ 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
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Join Lean practitioners from several communities of practice in the Northeast region for a Lean Brew. We are bringing together three Communities of Practice from different regions to support and learn from one another. Participants from a take part in an open conversation in a safe, small and low-pressure environment about the topics that are relevant to our Lean community. We want to hear about the problems you are solving, the issues you want to solve, and lessons you’ve learned on your Lean Journey. No previous Lean experience is required.This is going to be an interactive session and joining from your mobile device may be frustrating. For that reason, we are only allowing attendees to join from your computer. We also ask that everyone #turnyourcameraon! It will enrich the experience for all participants.
Facilitator: Brian Winningham, Field Driven Lean
A Lean Brew - Exploring 8 Wastes in Design & Construction (Southern New England CoP)
June 2, 2020 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
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Join us for a Virtual Lean Brew to learn and support each other in our Lean endeavors! Take part in an open conversation in a safe, small and low-pressure environment about the topics that are relevant to our Lean community. We want to hear about the problems you are solving, the issues you want to solve, and lessons you’ve learned on your Lean Journey. No previous Lean experience is required.
Participants from cross functional roles as designers, constructors, owners, trades partners, and associations propose discussion topics around any subject about which they want to learn – THERE ARE NO IRRELEVANT DISCUSSION TOPICS! Each proposer takes 15 to 30 seconds to pitch their topic, written on a sticky note, to the group. Once all topics have been pitched, voting begins to establish a priority for discussing the topics. Topics are then ordered from highest to lowest votes and examined accordingly. Participants will receive 8 minutes of time to discuss the topic. After 8 minutes there will be a ‘thumbs up/ thumbs down’ to decide whether or not the discussion should continue. Thumbs up equals 4 more minutes on the clock. This happens until it is agreed that the topic has been discussed to satisfaction. Takeaways are considered and then the topic with the next largest amount of votes is addressed. Come as you are and be ready to learn.
Attendance is free of charge. Please pre-register.
B.Y.O.B.
A Virtual Lean Brew - Leveraging Lean Tools & Techniques When We Return to Work (Southern New England CoP)
May 5, 2020 @ 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
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Join us for a Virtual Lean Brew to learn and support each other in our Lean endeavors! Take part in an open conversation in a safe, small and low-pressure environment about the topics that are relevant to our Lean community. We want to hear about the problems you are solving, the issues you want to solve, and lessons you’ve learned on your Lean Journey. No previous Lean experience is required.
Participants from cross functional roles as designers, constructors, owners, trades partners, and associations propose discussion topics around any subject about which they want to learn – THERE ARE NO IRRELEVANT DISCUSSION TOPICS! Each proposer takes 15 to 30 seconds to pitch their topic, written on a sticky note, to the group. Once all topics have been pitched, voting begins to establish a priority for discussing the topics. Topics are then ordered from highest to lowest votes and examined accordingly. Participants will receive 8 minutes of time to discuss the topic. After 8 minutes there will be a ‘thumbs up/ thumbs down’ to decide whether or not the discussion should continue. Thumbs up equals 4 more minutes on the clock. This happens until it is agreed that the topic has been discussed to satisfaction. Takeaways are considered and then the topic with the next largest amount of votes is addressed. Come as you are and be ready to learn.
Attendance is free of charge. Please pre-register.
B.Y.O.B.
A Virtual Lean Coffee - Adapting to the New Reality (Southern New England CoP)
April 14, 2020 @ 8:50 am – 10:00 am
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Join us for a Lean Coffee to learn and support each other in our Lean endeavors! Take part in an open conversation in a safe, small and low-pressure environment about the topics that are relevant to our Lean community. We want to hear about the problems you are solving, the issues you want to solve, and lessons you’ve learned on your Lean Journey. No previous Lean experience is required.
Participants from cross functional roles as designers, constructors, owners, trades partners, and associations propose discussion topics around any subject about which they want to learn – THERE ARE NO IRRELEVANT DISCUSSION TOPICS! Each proposer takes 15 to 30 seconds to pitch their topic, written on a sticky note, to the group. Once all topics have been pitched, voting begins to establish a priority for discussing the topics. Topics are then ordered from highest to lowest votes and examined accordingly. Participants will receive 8 minutes of time to discuss the topic. After 8 minutes there will be a ‘thumbs up/ thumbs down’ to decide whether or not the discussion should continue. Thumbs up equals 4 more minutes on the clock. This happens until it is agreed that the topic has been discussed to satisfaction. Takeaways are considered and then the topic with the next largest amount of votes is addressed. Come as you are and be ready to learn.
Attendance is free of charge. Please pre-register.
Agenda:
- 8:50-9:00 am - Orientation to the Virtual Format
- 9:00-10:00 am - Topic Discussions
A link for the Mural based Lean Coffee board and the Zoom meeting will be included in the registration confirmation email.
CANCELLED - A Lean Coffee (Southern New England CoP)
March 17, 2020 @ 7:30 am – 9:30 am
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Join us for a Lean Coffee to learn and support each other in our Lean endeavors! Take part in an open conversation in a safe, small and low-pressure environment about the topics that are relevant to our Lean community. We want to hear about the problems you are solving, the issues you want to solve, and lessons you’ve learned on your Lean Journey. No previous Lean experience is required.
Participants from cross functional roles as designers, constructors, owners, trades partners, and associations propose discussion topics around any subject about which they want to learn – THERE ARE NO IRRELEVANT DISCUSSION TOPICS! Each proposer takes 15 to 30 seconds to pitch their topic, written on a sticky note, to the group. Once all topics have been pitched, voting begins to establish a priority for discussing the topics. Topics are then ordered from highest to lowest votes and examined accordingly. Participants will receive 8 minutes of time to discuss the topic. After 8 minutes there will be a ‘thumbs up/ thumbs down’ to decide whether or not the discussion should continue. Thumbs up equals 4 more minutes on the clock. This happens until it is agreed that the topic has been discussed to satisfaction. Takeaways are considered and then the topic with the next largest amount of votes is addressed. Come as you are and be ready to learn.
Attendance is free of charge. Please pre-register
