Lean Tools in Project Management

This article is an overview and summery of which available lean tools you might use in project management. The purpose of this article is to give an overview of lean and how to approach lean in project management. This article will cover the background of lean, lean in project management and what lean tools and techniques are used to make the quickest duration of a project with reducing quality defects and boost productivity levels. The crucial for a p.....

Background

Introduction to Lean

Lean has been adopted by manufacturing companies in the past thirty-years. The philosophy is from the Japanese automotive industry and was introduced in the very late 1930’s as the Toyota Production System (known as TPS). Lean is basically about creating value for the costumer by eliminating waste and the principles seeks to have an effective and efficient production. The TPS system was in the beginning dedicated to the manufacturing industry, but during the past years have lean been established as an overall optimization philosophy for all kind of business’. The five principles of the philosophy:

1. Identify value
2. Identify the value stream
3. Create Flow by eliminating waste
4. Establish Pull
5. Seek Perfection