What are the criteria used for determining whether an activity ends up in the weekly work plan or not?
Several factors are considered in the determination of whether an activity ends up in the weekly work plan or not. These factors or criteria include:
- One of the essential factors is the geographical area or location
- Another criteria focuses on the time or duration of the activity during the completion of the project by the project team or manager
- Essence of constraints is also essential in the determination of which activities go into the weekly plan. This indicates that eligible factors or activities without current constraints go into the weekly pan.
- Available resources and their implementation or assignment into the achievement of the goals and objectives of the project also guides the completion of the weekly plan.
- Completion date in the schedule also determine which activities are pulled from the look-ahead schedule.
- Workable backlog is also a consideration in the inclusion of activities in the weekly work plan
- Assignments are also determined through their status. This indicates that only sound activities are included in the weekly work plan.
Which of the concepts of “lean production” were used on this project?
In the completion of this case study or project, there is critical implementation of the traditional design as a concept of the lean production method. This is because of the following;
- Application of linear scheduling techniques in the inclusion of activities within the weekly work plan
- In the project, architecture firm operates as the principle designer under the influence and support of other design engineers
- Lack of involvement of contractors in the designing process
- Critical imposition of the concept of value engineering in the completion of the project
- The project also incorporates concepts of last planner in the form of weekly work plan as a concept of lean production
