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Choosing the right tools for different types of lean projects
Traditional Project Management tools
Sometimes you really do need to plan a Christmas party or a facility move,
so your Systems2win templates include a Gantt Chart.
This one, however,
has useful features not found in other Excel Gantt Charts.
Like the ability to adjust times based on your work calendar.
Lean Project Management
Any manager (lean or other)
will need to lead many projects and teams.
Your Systems2win templates make it easy to launch any type of team, and to measure expected vs. actual results for any type of team or project. |

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Lean Management Systems
Traditional organizations rely too much on traditional project teams.
Lean organizations apply lean principles to come up with many creative ways to manage people in ways that often prove far more effective than cumbersome slow project team. |

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A3 Project Management
One of the most popular lean management tools is the A3 Report.
Or more correctly, the A3 way of thinking.
No long meetings. And yet every stakeholder must be fully heard.
No jumping to conclusions before identifying root causes and exploring multiple ideas for countermeasures.
Kaizen Events
If you have the luxury of being able to lock an entire team in a room for 3-5 days...
then the results of a Kaizen Event can be dramatic.
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Kaizen Events
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PDCA Coaching
If the problem involves quality issues,
then you might use Six Sigma tools.
If the problem involves outside suppliers,
then consider 8D problem solving.
If the problem involves navigating unknown territory, then consider PDCA kata coaching.
Learn more about
Problem Solving Tools and Methods
Strategic Direction
Decision Making
As your lean transformation evolves,
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top-down edicts become less and less common,
and bottom-up ideas and catchball dialogs become more common |

Decision Making |
as senior leaders begin to entrust their front-line team leaders
to apply lean tools, methods, and principles
to make more and more important decisions.
Change Management
With lean project management, change happens faster than with traditional project management.
People's emotions, fears, and feelings change at the same pace as when Adam met Eve.
Your project stakeholders will sincerely appreciate it when you project managers become a little more patient and tactful when pushing all of this change.
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Change Management
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