Course Details
Course Outline
5 days course
Performance Measurement: The Starting Point for Improvement
- The Need for Performance Measurement
- The impact of Lean and Agile methods
- Data Use and Abuse: How to use Data Constructively
- Selecting the ‘vital few’ Performance Measures
- Performance measures in Operations and Projects
- Current good practice in Performance Measurement
Using Measurements for Continuous Improvement
- Understanding Variation: The key to understanding performance
- What histograms, run charts and control charts tell us about performance
- The Range and Standard Deviation
- Introduction to Control Charts
- How to Improve a Process
- Problem and Mission Statements
An Overview of Lean and Agile Tools and Techniques
- What are Lean and Agile?
- The key principles of Lean management
- Project failures and the origins of Agile
- The fusion of Lean and Agile approaches – the current state of the art
- Analysing a Lean and Agile process or project
- Applying the tools and techniques in practice
Benchmarking, Measurement and Improvement
- Benchmarking process and project performance
- Identifying causes of problems, and potential solutions through benchmarking
- Demonstrating the link between a cause and its effect
- Investigating Relationships between Variables
- The role of Knowledge Management
- How the tools integrate with Lean and Agile methods
Running a Successful Benchmarking Project
- Scoping and planning benchmarking study
- Identifying and selecting benchmarking Metrics & Partners
- Running effective Lean and Agile projects and processes
- Integrating performance management with Lean and Agile
- The role of benchmarking in change management
