Takt is a holding system, not a push system. Holding means flow. When you flow you go fast, much like the Navy SEAL saying slow is smooth and smooth is fast. With lean, holding is smooth and smooth is fast. When the assistant super kept pushing the schedule instead of holding the Takt start dates, it caused friction with trade foremen. After three weeks of coaching, they transferred him to a different project. Within two weeks the entire site was in sync. Six weeks after implementing Takt, Jeff sees an entirely new job site. Clean bathrooms, air-conditioned lunch area, less workers on site due to flow efficiency, clean areas that crews control, foremen spending time with workers instead of tracking down procurement. Early pilot projects are seeing 20 percent time savings. Here is where we leave the characters behind and you become the main character of the book.
What you'll learn in this episode:
- Why foremen have been distracted making weekly work plans from scratch, tracking misaligned procurement, and orienting influx of different workers every week
- How Takt enables safety by giving foremen the environment and capacity to control the site and protect their workers
- Why one assistant super was transferred off the project for pushing instead of holding (Takt is a holding system not a push system)
- The transformation Jeff sees six weeks later: clean, organized, fewer workers, stable procurement, workers who are happy
- How Olivia scales Takt across all Evergreen projects with standardized systems: fresh eyes meetings, lean contracts, prefabrication as default, worker conditions, orientations
When you can get flow, you can get safety.
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Also, here are links to our YouTube Channels:
路 Jason Schroeder YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4xpRYvrW5Op5Ckxs4vDGDg
路 LeanTakt YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/leanTakt
路 LeanSuper YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzQDevqQP19L4LePuqma3Fg/featured
路 LeanSurvey YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-Ztn3okFhyB_3p5nmMKnsw
