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Daily Huddles

Tim Hoh
July 10, 2023

Happy Monday lean construction family and welcome to another edition of Real Life Lean. This newsletter is intended to give construction professionals worldwide 4 quick and easy resources to grow and continue on your lean journey.

Today's Summary:

Lean Article - Daily Huddle 101
Lean Podcast - The Daily Team Huddle - The Last Planner Implementation Series
Lean Event - Lean Construction Blog - Future of Production Control In A Connected World
Real Life Lean - Framework For A More Effective Daily Huddle

Lean Article

"The huddle allows problems to surface early and daily adjustments to be made in response to changing and unexpected conditions. Often these quick adjustments allow the project to remain on plan without significant replanning." This sentence from the article below is a great summary of the value Daily Huddles bring to project teams. The daily huddle is the single most valuable meeting I attend each morning and has drastically changed my workflow. Not convinced that daily huddles are for you? Check out the article below by Tom Richert and see the value daily huddles bring to construction AND pre construction teams. Total read time 3 min.

Daily Huddle 101

A superintendent once told me that he did not need a daily huddle. He was confident that he already knew everything that was happening on the project. I explained to him that the huddle was not for him. It was for the people leading the field crews. It turns out I wasn’t completely right about that.

leanconstructionblog.com/Daily-Huddle-101.html

Lean Podcast

On a construction utilizing lean construction practices to their fullest extent, you will have multiple huddles throughout the day. Throughout these huddles, many action items will come out. How does a project management team know that all tasks are being handled? How does a team know they don't have multiple people working on the same item, wasting time? The TEAM morning huddle helps ensure the appropriate people are working on each task. Total Listen Time 8 min.

‎Elevate Construction: Ep.858 - The Daily Team Huddle - Last Planner® Implementation Series on Apple Podcasts

‎Show Elevate Construction, Ep Ep.858 - The Daily Team Huddle - Last Planner® Implementation Series - Jul 5, 2023

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/elevate-construction/id1518326010?i=1000619473994

Lean Event

Production control is a continuous learning tool that can be used to trigger change in a process. As technology changes, we have an opportunity to fine tune our production control and improve our supply chains. Join the free webinar below with leanconstructionblog.com and James Choo as they discuss The Future of Production Control In A Connected World.

Future of Production Control in a connected world

The purpose of production control is not to monitor and track but to trigger an action. Therefore, regardless of the industry, highly performing production systems require optimal configuration of production policies and enforcement of those policies through effective and robust production control.

leanconstructionblog.com/webinar-future-production-control.html

Real Life Lean - Lean practices in the real world

A recent post from Kyle Nitchen (a great follow on LinkedIn, who also has a great newsletter) sparked the theme of this weeks newsletter - Daily Huddles. A link to the post can be found here, and below is a snip of the post. Daily Huddles work, and Kyle shares a great framework for this meeting. Give this a shot and watch you production and overall team moral jump!

Have a Real Life Lean story you think would be a great feature in an upcoming newsletter? Send me an email at [email protected].