
262 ◾ The 12 Pillars of Project Excellence
a war on the first eight wastes. Thus, project leaders are those who have under-
gone a paradigm shift from wanting their resources to work faster to leaders who
want their resources to work smarter—to focus on eliminating the waste and
thus use their time to focus on adding value to the customers. The principles of
lean thinking applied to projects are shown in Figure 6.6 and described below.
A. Identify and improve value added (VA) activities.
B. Identify and reduce necessary non-value added (NNVA) activities.
C. Eliminate or reduce nonvalue added (NVA) activities and eliminate waste.
6.3.1 Iden ...