Don’t we all make ‘feasible schedules’? You might think it is obvious that you should make schedules feasible. In practice, infeasible schedules are made more often than feasible ones. And there is a reason why people make infeasible schedules: they don’t put...
What does a ‘good detailed schedule’ look like? Exploring “the frozen zone” At the start of each project, we often ask our clients what they think a good schedule should look like. Depending on the interviewee’s role, we typically get the...
In the last post, I mentioned the importance of stability and shared my own experience. I mentioned the amazing results you can achieve on different levels by keeping your schedule stable. However, I also mentioned that you can ‘build flexibility’ on top of stability...
Is your plant proud to be ‘flexible’? And how would the team leaders describe this flexibility? In some cases, on the production floor this really means chaos. In this post I share my own experiences and plead for setting up a plant for success by... 