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- What the Last Planner System is.
- Why we need a First Planner System.
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Welcome everybody out to podcast number 1154. In this podcast, I'm going to take you through a quick concept about last planner without first planner system, so stay with us. This is the Elevate Construction Podcast, delivering remarkable content for workers, leaders, and companies in construction wanting to take their next step. Get ready to step out of your comfort zone with Jason Schroeder, as he encourages you to do better, live a remarkable life, and expect more. Let's go! Welcome everyone. I hope you're doing well, and I really hope you're enjoying the podcast. I plan to get 100% caught up tomorrow, but I think we're almost up to the end of last week where I'm supposed to be, so thank you for being patient with me. I really, really appreciate it. Let me read some feedback from our listeners, Jason. I've been thoroughly enjoying and absorbing as much of your content as I can get my hands on. I've just started working with the intact app and have been creating my CPM schedule by TAC planning first, then using durations derived from my production schedule and feeding them into the requisite CPM format for client and contract purposes. This is the first project that I'm trying to integrate TAC planning with CPM scheduling. I'm very interested in any information you can direct me towards that will help me understand the process of accounting for variation that I can use to defend requests for change events. Real quick, I'm going to pause right there. There's a section in the tactguide.com or tactguide.org website that will show you exactly how to do delays or you can reference the book, which shows the TAC planning book, which shows it to you as well, or you can join our discord server. So just reach out to me and we can help you with it. Okay, as an aside, I cannot tell you how awesome it felt to publish my TAC schedules on Friday. Post work schedules and task plans on crew boards for Monday and have my clients blubbering with praise as they were mesmerized by colors, time by location charts, and a CPM schedule that looks like it might actually work. My trade partners have been on cloud nine today. And as long as the new lunch area microwave shows up tomorrow morning, we are heading in a fantastic direction. My sincerest thanks for all you do. Thank you. And I, boy, this is one of the coolest comments that I don't want to compete. But anyway, like this is, this is, this is, this is, that was, that was awesome. I really, really appreciate that. And that helps everybody to know where to get some of these things. So that's great. Okay, real quick. So this podcast won't be very long. I need to, I need to make sure that it is isolated, though. I don't know that the, the combining a bunch of topics podcasts really work. I don't think people mind the small format. I'm getting these out as fast as I can in addition to the YouTube video. So here we go. Last planner system, the last planner system takes a meeting structure of meetings and huddles and deliverables from the master schedule all the way to the day plan and then the tracking of PPC with the behaviors of collaboration and respect for people. And trade partners are asked to do look ahead planning and weekly work planning and day planning in the short interval. But planning will require the resources of people, information, and all of the resources, the materials, the tools and equipment, and bringing them together and making commitments. If you don't have a first planner system, then you can't enable the last planners to do their job. In fact, and I'm not saying anybody's doing it on purpose, but it is, it is a thing. And even if it's accidental, having a last planner system without a successful first planner system is like dumping on somebody or making them sink or swim or chucking it over the wall irresponsibly at them. And the reason that this comes clear to me is that there are people in the lean community that are supposed to be lean experts that will criticize and argue with me. And like I got a post the other day, I'll comment the other day when when we posted the first planner system book. And the lean consultants focused on last planner said this is such an illusion, meaning that most last planner people believe that you shouldn't do any early planning no precon planning, no predictive planning that you should handle everything pretty much in the short term. If you do that, that is one of the gravest forms of disrespect for last planners, and you cannot call yourself lean. If you are going to have a last planner system, you must have a first planner system that queues up the overall production system, all of the logistical support and the supply chain so that your last planners last in the cycle and most important can take those resources and do something with it. And so it's not an illusion. And we are putting our money where our mouth is. The first planner system book is up. It is complete. It is reviewed. It is re uploaded. It's finalized. It shows all necessary components for a lean system and how to design it in pre construction. So you can order that on Amazon. Please give me a good review so we can scale that out. But just remember that having a last planner system without a first planner system is not only irresponsible. It's literally overburdening and disrespecting people further than it was already happening on site. I hope you've enjoyed this podcast. On we go. Please join us next time in elevating the entire construction experience for workers, leaders and companies coast to coast. If you're enjoying the show, please feel free to share with your construction colleagues and help us spread the word by rating, subscribing, and leaving a review on your preferred podcast listening platform. We really appreciate it. We'll catch you next time on the Elevate Construction Podcast. [Music] [BLANK_AUDIO]
