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What are the wastes that all project managers should consider in their project?

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Samer Alhmdan Senior Project Manager, PMP, PMI-RMP, LEED AP, EDGE Expert| dar Dubai, United Arab Emirates
What are the wastes that all project managers should consider in their project?
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Anonymous
Samer

Not clear, I am assuming waste we should avoid?

Time is the biggest one
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Drake Settsu Project Manager / Blogger Hi, United States
When you are running muliple projects with competing resources and one project stallls and another project could start some work ahead of schedule to gain time. This will position the stalled project to recover lost time when it resumes by allowing the competing resources to focus on getting the project back on track

Be Lean/Agile to gain time jumping around your project timelines to knock out tasks that can be done ahead of time.
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Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD Senior Project Manager| Infosys Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Anything that detracts from bringing cost, schedule and scope in line with the baseline, while ensuring quality isn't sacrificed.
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Kevin Drake Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Corrections are always there and it is a waste.
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Drew Craig Sr. Agile & Product Coach| Vanguard Philadelphia, Pa, United States
Any hand-off is additional waste that adds up. Consider that deployment request, waiting for testing, waiting to get an email response, waiting for approval from compliance, etc. These are the not-so-obvious delays which are obvious once mentioned. One-week of effort turns into a three-week task.
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Sromon Das Senior Project Manager| Mara Consulting Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
you could consider the traditional waste categories as a starting point- TIMWOOD
T- Transportation
I- Inventory
M- Motion
W- Waiting
O- Overproduction
O- Overprocessing
D- Defects

these are applicable in both mfg and service sectors
/sd
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Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada
Sromon has provided the standard seven wastes of lean to which I'll add Intellect (i.e. waste of intellectual capability).

Pretty much all of these eight forms of Muda are applicable in a project context related to the processes for producing the product, service or result as well as the processes for project management itself.

Kiron
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Feb 20, 2018 8:37 AM
Sromon Das
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ah yes, that's an important one often overlooked
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Sromon Das Senior Project Manager| Mara Consulting Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Feb 20, 2018 8:27 AM
Replying to Kiron Bondale
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Sromon has provided the standard seven wastes of lean to which I'll add Intellect (i.e. waste of intellectual capability).

Pretty much all of these eight forms of Muda are applicable in a project context related to the processes for producing the product, service or result as well as the processes for project management itself.

Kiron
ah yes, that's an important one often overlooked
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Vincent Guerard Coach - Trainer - Speaker - Advisor| Freelance Mont-Royal, Quebec, Canada
Time is the on thing you can get back. Most of the suggestions here would get you to waste time.

Unclear project
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Sergio Luis Conte Helping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based Organizations Buenos Aires, Argentina
If you are talking about the concept taken from Lean, then everything that is a cost for your stakeholders and do not generate value is wasted. In this defintion cost is not related to money only. Then, you have to define both terms relating your stakeholders.
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