Lean Project Management

4Practices of Lean Project Management

DOI: 10.4324/9781003435402-5

After reading this chapter, you will know …

• the characteristics of practices within a management approach, and
• a lot of selected acting principles, methods and tools for PM disciplines like contract design, scope management, project planning, process control, etc.
• the “Agilometer” – a tool for project classification regarding agile or plan-driven approach, and
• the project value stream analysis for process-oriented design of project work.

4.1 What are practices?

A key function in the application of Lean PM, but also of management approaches in general in day-to-day operations, are domain-specific practices. According to the Capability Maturity Model Integration, practices ...