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Building a Project-Driven
Enterprise:
How to Slash Waste and Boost Profits
Through Lean Project
Management
by
Ronald Mascitelli
ISBN: 0-9662697-1-3, Price: $39.95
Publication Date: April 2002
368 Pages, Hardcover, 6” x 9”
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
A Note to the Reader
Part 1 - Principles that Drive Project Efficiency
Chapter 1 – The Five Principles of Lean Thinking
Chapter 2 – Time Batches and JIT Information
Chapter 3 – Minimizing Transaction Costs
Chapter 4 – Defining Standard Work
Chapter 5 – Lessons from Information Theory
Part 2 – The Methods of Lean Project Management
Chapter 6 – A Toolbox for Speed and Efficiency
Method
1 –Testing for Customer Value
Method 2 – Linked Tasks and Customer-Defined
Deliverables
Method 3 – Urgency-Driven Stand-up Meetings
Method 4 – Real / Virtual Project Rooms
Method 5 – The “Waste-Free”
Design Review
Method 6 – Staged-Freeze Specifications
Method 7 – Visual Communication and Control
Method 8 – Standard Work Methods and Templates
Method 9 – Risk Buffering and the Critical
“Core”
Method 10 – Dedicated-Time Staffing and
“Superteams”
Method 11 – The Reservation System
Method 12 – The Value-Added Scorecard
Part 3 – The “Special Case” of
Lean Product Development
Chapter 7 – Creating a Lean Product Development Process
Part 4 – Building a Project-Driven Enterprise
Chapter 8 – Mandates for a Project-Driven Organization
Chapter 9 – A Step-by-Step Process for Slashing Waste
Some Closing Thoughts
Notes
References
Index
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