Lean Project Management
A research of Lean Production Delivery Systems on methods, processes and tools
Zhiyuan Wang

Author Note
This report answers topic three
This report was prepared for 49002 Project Management, taught by
Elizabeth Bourke
Abstract
Current project management practices been found that have inherent difficulties in meeting increasingly stringent clients’ needs. However, it seems that the theories and principles of Lean Production Delivery Systems (LPDS) are the best approaches of all sorts of management theories. This assignment makes a brief Investigates and discusses of LPDS and analyses how to apply the principles, theories, processes and tools to current project management practices. This assignment concentrates on topic three and compares the difference between current and LPDS approaches in methods, processes and tools.

Lean Project Management
A research of Lean Production Delivery Systems on methods, processes and tools

Background
Before people name it Lean Production Delivery Systems1 (LPDS), many American experts call it TPS which is short for Toyota Production System (Womack et al., 1990). This production system been called as just-in-time production at the beginning state. It was created and developed by the founder of Toyota, in order to gain higher quality and lower cost, in the 1950 s. This production system became famous and been paid more attention by experts when Toyota made much profit during 1970s economic crisis while other automobile manufacturers were suffering a loss. The phrase ‘lean production’ was first appeared in a report which is Machine That Changed the World written by Womack and Jones in 1990. As Womack's report that the theory can be apply to many business areas. The theory and principles of the Toyota Production System (TPS) are known more widely as lean production Systems now (Koskela, 1992).