Overall: Lean training and experience is gained through participation in a Lean project.
Duration: 4.5 days total, conducted in three 1.5 day sessions over 9-16 weeks.
Pre-event
- Prepare project charter.*
- Create a project aim.
- Identify at least one primary measure of success.
- Create a project scope.
- Flowchart relevant processes at a high level.
- Assemble relevant baseline data.
- Identify the key players and engage them.
- Submit application for project to the Executive team.
Project
- Identify the key players and engage them.
- Make the work visible through the use of mapping tools.
- Identify the customers of the work process or flow and determine how they define value.
- Determine the desired future state.
- Analyze the work process or flow and identify improvement opportunities.
- Evaluate and prioritize the improvement opportunities.
- Conduct Rapid Tests of Change for targeted smaller opportunities and create an implementation plan for targeted larger opportunities.
- Present the implementation plan and gain necessary approvals.
* A charter is a document that outlines the aims and measures for the project.