Teams makes a great Leader. But great team occures when leader acts as a coach. Greate team occures when leader encourages each person to do their best work and communicate openly and effectively with their team. The leader is just one person, the real driving force behind a leader’s success is their team.

WE LOVE SCRUM IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY Construction industry has complex processes. Most of the large construction projects will end up way over budget, and couldn’t reach deadlines. Whenever something goes wrong in the project, different departments blame other departments. Crews working under such a pressure hate their jobs. For…

The world is going through a very rapid change. As Heraclitus indicate “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” “ Nothing stays the same; the only constant is the change.” Everything around us is getting more…

20 years ago, just after graduation from Civil Engineering department, I jumped into the middle of an ongoing infrastructure project as a junior Civil Engineer. The project was complex and complicated. However the team was working in a harmony and the project was going as planned. The project manager was…

There is a lot of planning in construction projects. Certain tasks need to get done before others. Scrum allows planning to continue iteratively. Scrum roles are also similar to Construction. Superintendent can act as the Scrum Master, The project manager can act as Product Owner. Scrum supports construction teams in three ways. Construction companies using Scrum are: · Faster, · Better and · Happier.

Most of the construction projects end up over budget and past the schedule because we use yesterday’s project management methods in today’s world. The current theory of the project management was developed at a time when projects were more readily decomposed and well bounded. So why don’t we rethink, restructure…

We can use Lean and Agile concepts for highly uncertain challenges. Lean solves complicated projects. Scrum solves complex projects. For the repetitive tasks we can use waterfall. It is that simple…

Agile approach was first developed for software industry but when the benefits were observed, agile approach and frameworks also applied to non IT sectors successfully. In this article benefits of agile construction will be mentioned. Projects in the construction sector are both complex and complicated by nature. In addition, construction…

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