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Many companies fully or partially live in a project world, although most of them do not act as project-driven companies. Competition in our industry increasingly makes more important the desire of optimizing what leads to provide our customers better service or product, within the time and cost agreed, and to the extent expected by them. Lean Project Management seeks precisely that goal. The purpose of this article is to explain how the Lean principles can be applied to make project management more efficient. Lean Project Management guide organizations toward a model of high productivity management at all stages of a project. The procedure used to analyze this issue throughout the article is the following. First, the causes of projects failure are identified, clarifying the room of improvement. Second, the objectives and principles of Lean Project Management are defined. By recommending tools and techniques it is shown how to manage projects in a Lean way. Finally, the benefits of Lean Thinking in Project Management are concluded. A collection of articles and papers will support these ideas. | Many companies fully or partially live in a project world, although most of them do not act as project-driven companies. Competition in our industry increasingly makes more important the desire of optimizing what leads to provide our customers better service or product, within the time and cost agreed, and to the extent expected by them. Lean Project Management seeks precisely that goal. The purpose of this article is to explain how the Lean principles can be applied to make project management more efficient. Lean Project Management guide organizations toward a model of high productivity management at all stages of a project. The procedure used to analyze this issue throughout the article is the following. First, the causes of projects failure are identified, clarifying the room of improvement. Second, the objectives and principles of Lean Project Management are defined. By recommending tools and techniques it is shown how to manage projects in a Lean way. Finally, the benefits of Lean Thinking in Project Management are concluded. A collection of articles and papers will support these ideas. | ||
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Abstract
Many companies fully or partially live in a project world, although most of them do not act as project-driven companies. Competition in our industry increasingly makes more important the desire of optimizing what leads to provide our customers better service or product, within the time and cost agreed, and to the extent expected by them. Lean Project Management seeks precisely that goal. The purpose of this article is to explain how the Lean principles can be applied to make project management more efficient. Lean Project Management guide organizations toward a model of high productivity management at all stages of a project. The procedure used to analyze this issue throughout the article is the following. First, the causes of projects failure are identified, clarifying the room of improvement. Second, the objectives and principles of Lean Project Management are defined. By recommending tools and techniques it is shown how to manage projects in a Lean way. Finally, the benefits of Lean Thinking in Project Management are concluded. A collection of articles and papers will support these ideas.
