Join us for a 90-minute virtual CoP experience as we offer highlights from the 2020 LCI Congress, takeaways from top presentations, and panel discussions from lean leaders in the construction industry who will share their lean knowledge gained at this year’s congress. After recapping this year’s virtual Congress, there will be an open discussion similar to a Lean coffee. We will not have a strict agenda, rather we will encourage open conversation.

LCI Southern New England Community of Practice

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A Lean Coffee 

Join us for a Lean Coffee to learn and support each other in our Lean endeavors! Take part in an open conversation in a safe, small and low-pressure environment about the topics that are relevant to our Lean community. We want to hear about the problems you are solving, the issues you want to solve, and lessons you’ve learned on your Lean Journey. No previous Lean experience is required. 

Participants from cross functional roles as designers, constructors, owners, trades partners, and associations propose discussion topics around any subject about which they want to learn – THERE ARE NO IRRELEVANT DISCUSSION TOPICS! Each proposer takes 15 to 30 seconds to pitch their topic, written on a sticky note, to the group. Once all topics have been pitched, voting begins to establish a priority for discussing the topics. Topics are then ordered from highest to lowest votes and examined accordingly. Participants will receive 8 minutes of time to discuss the topic. After 8 minutes there will be a ‘thumbs up/ thumbs down’ to decide whether or not the discussion should continue. Thumbs up equals 4 more minutes on the clock. This happens until it is agreed that the topic has been discussed to satisfaction. Takeaways are considered and then the topic with the next largest amount of votes is addressed. Come as you are and be ready to learn.

Registration is free – Register Required

LCI Southern New England Community of Practice

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Stop Starting, Start Finishing Your Way to Lower Stress Projects with the Kanban Method 

Do your projects, offices, departments sometimes result in overloaded staff and less than desirable work product? We’ve learned from the world of Lean thinking that there’s a better way to organize our workflow and stay coordinated throughout the overall design and construction process. This approach is called the “Kanban Method” and is a method used to visualize their work while continuously improving the way they bring flow to the production of their work. This leads to higher first-quality, happier staff, more satisfied clients, and more profitable work.
This event is a great opportunity to participate in a hands on workshop to understand the Kanban principles and practices as well as produce a Kanban board that you can begin using immediately in your daily job.

12:30PM – 1:00PM – Registration & Lunch
1:00PM – 4:00PM – Kanban Workshop
4:00PM – 5:00PM – Networking

The workshop will be conducted by Hal Macomber. Hal studied economics and operations research and then got an MBA from Boston University in operations management. He studied Lean in Japan while in manufacturing at Digital Equipment Corp. For the past 20 years Hal has been coaching architects, engineers, builders and their clients to adopt Lean as their operating strategy. Hal is also the co-author of the book The Pocket Sensei: Mastering Lean Leadership with 40 Katas, Vol. 1. He brings wisdom of the fathers of Lean management and leadership to those practicing today. Hal is a Fellow of the Lean Systems Society and the recipient of the Lean Construction Institute’s 2016 Chairman’s Award for “serving the institute with extraordinary distinction and furthering it’s mission of transforming the industry of design and construction”. He currently works at Touchplan in Boston, MA supporting the integration of technology enabled collaboration in design and construction. Hal is an active member of the Lean Construction Institute (LCI) and a LCI Approved Instructor.

Lunch will be provided

Deadline to register: 9/30/2019

LCI Southern New England Community of Practice

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A Lean Coffee 

Join us for a Lean Coffee to learn and support each other in our Lean endeavors! Take part in an open conversation in a safe, small and low-pressure environment about the topics that are relevant to our Lean community. We want to hear about the problems you are solving, the issues you want to solve, and lessons you’ve learned on your Lean Journey. No previous Lean experience is required. 

Participants from cross functional roles as designers, constructors, owners, trades partners, and associations propose discussion topics around any subject about which they want to learn – THERE ARE NO IRRELEVANT DISCUSSION TOPICS! Each proposer takes 15 to 30 seconds to pitch their topic, written on a sticky note, to the group. Once all topics have been pitched, voting begins to establish a priority for discussing the topics. Topics are then ordered from highest to lowest votes and examined accordingly. Participants will receive 8 minutes of time to discuss the topic. After 8 minutes there will be a ‘thumbs up/ thumbs down’ to decide whether or not the discussion should continue. Thumbs up equals 4 more minutes on the clock. This happens until it is agreed that the topic has been discussed to satisfaction. Takeaways are considered and then the topic with the next largest amount of votes is addressed. Come as you are and be ready to learn.

Registration is free – Register Required

LCI Southern New England Community of Practice

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Lean Brew-Technology & Lean

Join us for a Lean Brew to discuss how the use of technology is making us more efficient on our projects as well as share the challenges you may be facing with the wide variety of software solutions on the market., Take part in an open conversation in a safe and low-pressure environment about this topic and enjoy some beer and appetizers. No previous Lean experience is required!

This event is being sponsored by Quick Base (https://www.quickbase.com)

Registration is free – Register Required

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LCI Course: Mindset of an Effective Big Room

High performing teams function on collaborative brain power to rapidly advance work and add value by driving down overall project costs in a Big Room setting. Effective Big Rooms are only possible with the right kind of mindset and behaviors that break down the traditional silos to allow for cross-functional team collaboration and decision-making. LCI’s Mindset of an Effective Big Room education course creates a simulated Big Room experience encouraging you to create, manage, and lead your own detailed Big Room concept and implementation plan tailored to your project’s specific needs whether you have had previous experience or not. Small groups will discuss onboarding new members, technology, and real world challenges to Big Room implementation and report back to the large group to share and create a list of standards and better practices.

Learning Objectives:

• Immerse yourself in a Big Room atmosphere
• Tightly couple learning with action
• “Pull” the learning needed from facilitators and participants
• Develop your own detailed Big Room concept and implementation plan
• Learn how to organize and manage a Big Room tailored to your specific project needs
• Collaboratively develop a list of standards and better practices.
  

Agenda:

• 12:00-1:00 pm Lunch, Registration & Networking
• 1:00-5:00 pm Big Room Workshop

 
Registration Rates:

• Member: $75.00 
• Non-Member: $80.00
• Owner: $25.00
• Sponsorship Available: $250.00 (includes two free registrations)

LCI Southern New England Community of Practice

presents

A Lean Coffee 

Join us for a Lean Coffee to learn and support each other in our Lean endeavors! Take part in an open conversation in a safe, small and low-pressure environment about the topics that are relevant to our Lean community. We want to hear about the problems you are solving, the issues you want to solve, and lessons you’ve learned on your Lean Journey. No previous Lean experience is required. 

Participants from cross functional roles as designers, constructors, owners, trades partners, and associations propose discussion topics around any subject about which they want to learn – THERE ARE NO IRRELEVANT DISCUSSION TOPICS! Each proposer takes 15 to 30 seconds to pitch their topic, written on a sticky note, to the group. Once all topics have been pitched, voting begins to establish a priority for discussing the topics. Topics are then ordered from highest to lowest votes and examined accordingly. Participants will receive 8 minutes of time to discuss the topic. After 8 minutes there will be a ‘thumbs up/ thumbs down’ to decide whether or not the discussion should continue. Thumbs up equals 4 more minutes on the clock. This happens until it is agreed that the topic has been discussed to satisfaction. Takeaways are considered and then the topic with the next largest amount of votes is addressed. Come as you are and be ready to learn.

Registration is free – Register Required

Coffee and light breakfast will be served

LCI Southern New England Community of Practice

presents

A Lean Coffee 

Join us for a Lean Coffee to learn and support each other in our Lean endeavors! Take part in an open conversation in a safe, small and low-pressure environment about the topics that are relevant to our Lean community. We want to hear about the problems you are solving, the issues you want to solve, and lessons you’ve learned on your Lean Journey. No previous Lean experience is required. 

Participants from cross functional roles as designers, constructors, owners, trades partners, and associations propose discussion topics around any subject about which they want to learn – THERE ARE NO IRRELEVANT DISCUSSION TOPICS! Each proposer takes 15 to 30 seconds to pitch their topic, written on a sticky note, to the group. Once all topics have been pitched, voting begins to establish a priority for discussing the topics. Topics are then ordered from highest to lowest votes and examined accordingly. Participants will receive 8 minutes of time to discuss the topic. After 8 minutes there will be a ‘thumbs up/ thumbs down’ to decide whether or not the discussion should continue. Thumbs up equals 4 more minutes on the clock. This happens until it is agreed that the topic has been discussed to satisfaction. Takeaways are considered and then the topic with the next largest amount of votes is addressed. Come as you are and be ready to learn.

Registration is free – Register Required

Coffee and light breakfast will be served

Please park behind the building past the gate and use the side entrance

LCI Southern New England Community of Practice

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Lean in Safety

Having difficulty bringing safety to the next level in your organization? How do we rise to the challenge to commit to our co-workers, colleagues, and clients that we will all create, contribute to, and maintain a safe work environment for us and those around us?

Fortunately for us, Lean and safety are a natural fit. We invite you to join us to listen to local construction and design professionals/experts share their stories and experience related to leveraging Lean tools and principles to achieve better outcomes in safety. Specifically, you will hear about:

• Lean tools and principles for improving safety;
• How tracking safety behaviors and incidents followed by the use of A3s and root cause analysis can solve the ‘real’ problems and promote continuous improvement of safety procedures and behaviors;
• the value of making problems visible; and
• driving behaviors that engage your staff to promote safety (behavior-based safety culture)

Event Program:
4:00-4:25pm Arrival, Registration & Networking
4:20–4:30pm Introduction and Welcome
4:30-6:00pm Presentations
6:00-6:05pm Closing Remarks
6:05-6:30pm Networking

Registration Rates:

Sponsorship Available: $250.00 (includes two free registrations)

Parking – There is free parking in the parking lot dedicated to the conference center. On street is also available – (SEE MAP)

LCI Southern New England Community of Practice

presents

A Lean Coffee 

Join us for a Lean Coffee to learn and support each other in our Lean endeavors! Take part in an open conversation in a safe, small and low-pressure environment about the topics that are relevant to our Lean community. We want to hear about the problems you are solving, the issues you want to solve, and lessons you’ve learned on your Lean Journey. No previous Lean experience is required. 

Participants from cross functional roles as designers, constructors, owners, trades partners, and associations propose discussion topics around any subject about which they want to learn – THERE ARE NO IRRELEVANT DISCUSSION TOPICS! Each proposer takes 15 to 30 seconds to pitch their topic, written on a sticky note, to the group. Once all topics have been pitched, voting begins to establish a priority for discussing the topics. Topics are then ordered from highest to lowest votes and examined accordingly. Participants will receive 8 minutes of time to discuss the topic. After 8 minutes there will be a ‘thumbs up/ thumbs down’ to decide whether or not the discussion should continue. Thumbs up equals 4 more minutes on the clock. This happens until it is agreed that the topic has been discussed to satisfaction. Takeaways are considered and then the topic with the next largest amount of votes is addressed. Come as you are and be ready to learn.

Registration is free – Register Required

Coffee and light breakfast will be served

LCI Southern New England Community of Practice

presents

A Lean Coffee 

Join us for a Lean Coffee to learn and support each other in our Lean endeavors! Take part in an open conversation in a safe, small and low-pressure environment about the topics that are relevant to our Lean community. We want to hear about the problems you are solving, the issues you want to solve, and lessons you’ve learned on your Lean Journey. No previous Lean experience is required. 

Participants from cross functional roles as designers, constructors, owners, trades partners, and associations propose discussion topics around any subject about which they want to learn – THERE ARE NO IRRELEVANT DISCUSSION TOPICS! Each proposer takes 15 to 30 seconds to pitch their topic, written on a sticky note, to the group. Once all topics have been pitched, voting begins to establish a priority for discussing the topics. Topics are then ordered from highest to lowest votes and examined accordingly. Participants will receive 8 minutes of time to discuss the topic. After 8 minutes there will be a ‘thumbs up/ thumbs down’ to decide whether or not the discussion should continue. Thumbs up equals 4 more minutes on the clock. This happens until it is agreed that the topic has been discussed to satisfaction. Takeaways are considered and then the topic with the next largest amount of votes is addressed. Come as you are and be ready to learn.

Registration is free – Register Required

Coffee and light breakfast will be served

LCI Southern New England Community of Practice

presents

A Lean Coffee 

Join us for a Lean Coffee to learn and support each other in our Lean endeavors! Take part in an open conversation in a safe, small and low-pressure environment about the topics that are relevant to our Lean community. We want to hear about the problems you are solving, the issues you want to solve, and lessons you’ve learned on your Lean Journey. No previous Lean experience is required.

Participants from cross functional roles as designers, constructors, owners, trades partners, and associations propose discussion topics around any subject about which they want to learn – THERE ARE NO IRRELEVANT DISCUSSION TOPICS! Each proposer takes 15 to 30 seconds to pitch their topic, written on a sticky note, to the group. Once all topics have been pitched, voting begins to establish a priority for discussing the topics. Topics are then ordered from highest to lowest votes and examined accordingly. Participants will receive 8 minutes of time to discuss the topic. After 8 minutes there will be a ‘thumbs up/ thumbs down’ to decide whether or not the discussion should continue. Thumbs up equals 4 more minutes on the clock. This happens until it is agreed that the topic has been discussed to satisfaction. Takeaways are considered and then the topic with the next largest amount of votes is addressed. Come as you are and be ready to learn.

Registration is free – Register Required

Coffee and light breakfast will be served

LCI Southern New England Community of Practice

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A Lean Coffee – Problem Solving & Continuous Improvement

Join us for a Lean Coffee to learn and support each other in our Lean endeavors! Take part in an open conversation in a safe, small and low-pressure environment about the topics that are relevant to our Lean community. We want to hear about the problems you are solving, the issues you want to solve, and lessons you’ve learned on your Lean Journey. No previous Lean experience is required.

Participants from cross functional roles as designers, constructors, owners, trades partners, and associations propose discussion topics around any subject about which they want to learn – THERE ARE NO IRRELEVANT DISCUSSION TOPICS! Each proposer takes 15 to 30 seconds to pitch their topic, written on a sticky note, to the group. Once all topics have been pitched, voting begins to establish a priority for discussing the topics. Topics are then ordered from highest to lowest votes and examined accordingly. Participants will receive 8 minutes of time to discuss the topic. After 8 minutes there will be a ‘thumbs up/ thumbs down’ to decide whether or not the discussion should continue. Thumbs up equals 4 more minutes on the clock. This happens until it is agreed that the topic has been discussed to satisfaction. Takeaways are considered and then the topic with the next largest amount of votes is addressed. Come as you are and be ready to learn.

Registration is free – Register Required

Coffee and light breakfast will be served

LCI New England Community of Practice

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Pop-Up DoJo – Developing Lean Leadership at Your Workplace

Dojo is a global cultural shift towards Lean leadership at all organizational levels. It is a practice-based mindful development of yourself, your relationships with your peers, colleagues, and clients. Learn lean leadership skills necessary to improve the success of Lean initiatives, while avoiding the constant fighting of the urgent fires of the day.

Objectives:

• Use your Pocket Sensei books (provided)
•  Establish your own Dojo’s
•  Practice together where you work
•  Develop your community ‘s Lean mindsets and behaviors
•  Build a support system that you need to develop your Lean Leadership

Hal Macomber did his first production system project in 1974 followed by a two-year stint w/ Bank of Boston in operations research. Studying quality and just-in-time production in Japan in the mid-1980’s began the formal intro to Lean. Along the way, Hal was introduced to the work of Fernando Flores — first the study of the language-action perspective, then ontological redesign. This knowledge coupled to Lean allowed him and his collaborators to make very large scale organizational interventions.

Thank you to our host:

Light Hors d’oeuvres and refreshments will be provided, courtesy of