Revision as of 01:09, 26 November 2014

Feedbck on "Lean Project Management" by DBDHL

This is a great, well written article providing a solid description of Lean Project Management.

Formal aspects

• The language is nice and easy to understand but proof-reading is recommended.
• The structure of the article engages the reader. It is well structured and chronologically disposed.
• The use of figures is great and supports the take-away points from the sections.
• The figures seem correct, convincing and easy to understand.
• I suggest adding figure numbers in the figure texts.
• I suggest referring to the figures throughout the text. This hasn’t been done consistently.
• It is assumed that the author has created the figures by him/her-self and that there are no copyright issues.
• The article is very well formatted Wiki-style.
• References are used consistently and correct and seem to cover the topic to a great extent.

Content aspects

• It’s great the article starts by explaining the importance of the topic: Lean project management. This is engaging the reader and works as a great appetizer to read more.
• Consider to include some of the findings from the article so it works as a summary.
• The topic is assumed to be highly relevant for a practitioner considering to apply Lean project Management within an organization.
• It is clear that the article belongs to the “Introduction and overview” category since it takes care of the proposed elements.
• The length of the article seems appropriate. The article seems to cover the topic to a great extent without being too “heavy” to read.
• There is a great chronological red thread throughout the article as well as a nice overview.
• References are in general used extensively with relevant sources of high quality.
• The article has a section referring to other Wiki pages, which is great.
• It can be a but difficult to distinct between own opinion and statements from literature:
  • From the top section: Using “our” in the following sentence makes it seem like it is written by a company and is a bit confusing: “Competition in our industry increasingly makes more important the desire of optimizing what leads to provide our customers better service or product…”
  • From the discussion: “LPM philosophy would become an important part of the companies’ culture because they would see the long-term benefits of applying LPM tools and techniques” – where does this statement come from?
• The article doesn’t seem to have “copy/paste” plagiarism.