TABLE OF CONTENTS Begin the process of micro planning (usually called Job Planning) for your project. Planning Lean Projects is similar to planning maintenance jobs. Planning is the process of listing and assessing the elements of a successful maintenance job. Planning is not ordering or moving anything around in the real world, just listing items. You do not place orders or gather materials until the go-ahead is given and the project is put on the schedule.
The resources include labor, parts, tools, access to asset(s), permission, drawings, and information, and any other elements necessary to complete the project. If the project is a study or investigation, then decide who you need to talk to, and what internal or external resources will be needed. Planning also includes thinking out in detail how you're going to do the project (job steps), and what (if any) engineering help is needed.
Lean Project Planning check list (adapted from Planning, Scheduling and Coordination, a 2-day class presented by the author):
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| Choose a Lean Project. |
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| Visit the Lean project job site and have a discussion with the team or customer (if needed). |
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| Find out whether this job, or a substantially similar job, has been done before (if so, look at the plan and see if it, or elements of it, can be re-used). |
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| Get approvals based on a Proposal containing a preliminary estimate of costs. |
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| Break the job down to its component tasks. List the job steps. Take... |
