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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