The project management is invaded with the “Lean”. One reason is that major companies realized that their quality management, work processes, management methods had been reinforced in an excessive way, by recording too many informations hiding the essential and necessary information!
That’s why they invested in some light modification to focus on the main target : to hunt the risks ! The principle is simple : Setup filters to select necessary activities among the huge stack of activities written in quality procedures. These filters will take into account the nature of the risk : Innovation, new manufacturing process, or new capacity facilities.
Taking into account the level of risk of your project following this evaluation filter, you will focus on the main chapter of your quality procedure and make sure your company will not spend precious ressource in an unuseful way. Here are some additional guidelines :
- Do the risk assessment by an expert team (engineering, purchasing, manufacturing)
- Make sure each activity has a unique pilot to hunt the redundancy.
But keep in mind that if the initial goals of the quality procedures are to strengthen, consolidate, lock the development process, to apply Lean by lighten the related activity may weaken your project and make it collapse !
