Wastes
Last Planner System
Lean Tools
Six Tenets of Lean
Japanese Words
100

This is the number of "deadly wastes" identified by Toyota.  

What is 8?

100

This meeting type is critical to the success of the last planner system and should be limited to approximately 15 minutes in duration.  

What is a Daily Huddle?

100

This lean tool is actually a reference to the size of paper used for the report.

What is A3 problem solving?

100

This is the most important of the 6 tenets of lean and underlies everything.

What is Respect for People?


100

This word means waste in Japanese

What is Muda?

200

Using just-in-time deliveries can eliminate this form of waste?

What is Inventory?

200

This part of the last planner system has the least detail, but is an important predecessor to the other parts.

What is Milestone Planning?

200

This sport term is an agile framework that can be used for managing design, constraint resolution, or other tasks.  

What is Scrum?

200

Performing Plus/Delta after meetings or using the PDCA cycle can help with this tenet of lean construction.  

What is Continuous Improvement?

200

This 6 letter term for continuous improvement literally translates to "change for the better"

Kaizen

300

Locating tools and materials close to the location that they will be used or installed can reduce this form of waste.

What is Movement?

300

These two parts of the last planner system are focused on work that stakeholders "will do" and should occur weekly.  

What are Weekly work Planning and Look-Ahead Planning?

300

This lean management approach focuses on creating cross-functional teams who can make decisions related to their areas of expertise.  

What are Cluster Groups?

300

Traditional contracting methodology can hinder your ability to do this since each entity is encouraged to protect their own risk. 

What is Optimize the Whole?

300

This term meaning "the real place" refers to the actual place where work is occurring. 

What is Gemba?

400

This form of waste occurs when the quality assurance efforts fail and something is installed incorrectly.  

What is a Defect?

400

This is the part of LPS focusing on what work the team "will do" that primarily focuses on sequence and flow in a particular phase of the project.   

What is Phase Pull Planning?

400

This three-letter acronym represents a lean contract type that utilizes shared-risk to encourage collaboration.  

What is IPD?

400

This alliterative tenet of lean construction might be mistaken for "Look intently at running water"

What is "Focus on Flow"?

400

This term translates to "mistake-proof" and is a methodology focused on preventing errors by limiting how a process can be done.  

Poka-Yoke

500

This process can be used to review a process in detail and identify which steps add value, which are wasteful, and which can be removed.  

What is Value Stream Mapping?

500

This metric measures the accuracy of the weekly work plan and can be calculated as Committed tasks completed divided by Total Committed Tasks.  

What is Percent Planned Complete (PPC)?

500

This location-based planning methodology focuses on balancing activity durations to create an optimal flow from trade to trade.  

What is Takt Time?

500

Establishing Conditions of Satisfaction for a project can help to achieve this tenet of lean construction which should be defined by the customer.  

What is Generate Value?

500

This term meaning "visual Board" defines a lean workflow management process that visualizes work and focuses on continuous improvement.  

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