The Lean Project Manager Doing more with less

Table of Content

  • A lean history of Lean
    • History
    • Principles
    • Philosophy
    • Lean Today
    • Quality
    • But for Heaven's sake, what does the customer want?
    • Implementations
    • Caveats
    • Yes, it is Lean!
  • Approach
    • Project Management vs. Project Manager
    • It is all about people
    • This is a Lean, Lean world...
    • The value of a project manager
    • The lazy project manager...
    • The proposal
    • The three customers
    • Defi nitions
    • Notation
  • The Lean PM
    • LPM technical skills
    • Pre-project: The business side of projects
    • Setting up an Andon cord: The project governance
    • “Time spent on building governance is never wasted.”
    • The good start
    • Managing requirements
    • Principle One: No Meetings
    • How much documentation?
    • Principle Two: Adapt the method
    • Doing
    • Controlling
    • Principle Three: Use and abuse of checklists!
    • Measuring
    • Principle Four: Measure well
    • Principle Five: Pull reporting
    • This is the end, my friend.
    • Principle Six: Fail (and learn about it)
    • Celebrate success and failure
    • So now what?
  • LPM Soft skills
    • The House of Soft Skills (or the House of Lean Leadership)
    • The House of Lean Leadership: the base
    • Know thyself
    • Knowing them
    • The power of attitude
    • Respect
    • Communication
    • Tips for improving your communication
    • How to lean the communication?
    • Kaizen opportunities
    • Interpersonal skills
    • Team leading
    • Conflict resolution
    • Reputation management
    • Time management
    • Organizational & political savvy
    • Customer centricity
    • Influence & Negotiation
    • Influence
    • Negotiation: a pie story, with lions and foxes
  • Beyond projects
    • Organizations and maturity
    • “There is not a greater waste than a useless project correctly executed.”
  • Conclusion
    • Lean
    • The Lean PM principles
    • The house of soft skills
    • Lean organizations
    • Productivity hacks
    • Conclusion