Description

Jason continues the Lean Onboarding series with buffers, explaining why every well functioning system in life has them and why construction is no different. Using a college assignment analogy, he shows how buffers protect crews from overburden and unevenness, and why they are essential to optimizing cycle times.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Why everything that works properly in life has built in buffers
• How finishing early without a buffer leads to overburden and waste
• Why using extra time at the end of an activity helps crews recover and prepare
• Why a little buffer is not sandbagging, it is sound planning
• The different types of buffers: time, material, capacity, and workable backlog

Does your schedule protect your crews with real buffers, or run them with none?

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