Overview:

All projects set targets and attempt to steer toward them, but some methods are more effective than others. If your projects are too often completed late and cost more, they may not have been managed with the best methods. Lean methods are better at delivering what’s wanted within client constraints of time and cost. The webinar will explain the Lean methods, Target Value Delivery and the Last Planner System, and illustrate their impact on project performance.

Learning objectives: Participants will understand:

1. How well Target Value Delivery and the Last Planner System work to deliver projects that are fit for purpose within time and within budget.

2. What Target Value Delivery is and how it works.

a. How to set targets for what’s wanted and the time and cost constraints on its delivery.

b. How to steer to targets in design and in construction.

3. What the Last Planner System is and how it works.

a. Participants will learn about fundamental principles of the Last Planner System, such as “Plan in greater detail as the start date for planned tasks approaches” and “Produce plans collaboratively with those who are to do the work being planned.”

b. Participants will learn about the methods used to act on the principles:

i. Pull planning

ii. Making tasks ready for commitment

iii. The reliable promising process

iv. Learning from broken promises

Pre-reading will be made available to participants:

• Target Value Delivery - Chapter 1 of LCI-Ireland’s 2019 Book of Knowledge (https://lci.qa/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/LCi-Ireland-Book-2019-Chapter-1-TVD-for-LCI-Qatar-1.pdf)

• 2016 Current Process Benchmark for the Last Planner System (https://www.leanconstruction.org/media/docs/lcj/2016/LCJ_16_011.pdf)

Dr. Glenn Ballard is a Research Associate at the Project Production Systems Laboratory, University of California Berkeley. Glenn entered the construction industry as a pipefitter’s helper, transitioned to construction engineering, and in 1980 was named Manager of Productivity Improvement for a construction division of Brown and Root. He subsequently became an internal management consultant with Bechtel Petroleum, working on all aspects of project delivery, and supporting projects in other Bechtel divisions such as the South Texas Nuclear Plant. He began a management consulting business in 1987. In parallel, he began lecturing on productivity and quality improvement at the University of California Berkeley in 1989, and completed the transition from industry to academia in 2005 when he was named Research Director for the University’s Project Production Systems Laboratory. He co-founded the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC) in 1993, the Lean Construction Institute (LCI) in 1997, the Project Production Systems Laboratory in 2005, and Lean in the Public Sector (LIPS) in 2007. Glenn retired from his position as Research Director in 2019, but continues in a support role as a Research Associate for the Project Production Systems Laboratory. With lots of help from others, Glenn developed the Last Planner® System (LPS) and Target Value Delivery (TVD) – two key Lean Construction methods, both of which he continues to improve. A new Current Process Benchmark for the Last Planner System is due to be published by July 2020, and Glenn is now leading research groups to develop better methods for use in Target Value Delivery, namely, conceptual estimating (estimating cost at completion prior to design) and using trade-off curves in aligning potentially conflicting stakeholder requirements. These will be incorporated in a future update of the Current Process Benchmark for Target Value Delivery. Glenn has a long list of publications (see Google Scholar), many of which are available at the website of the IGLC (www.iglc.net).