Ten Improvements to Lean Production Planning

What Lean Builders Can Do To Improve Short Interval Planning

By: Jason Schroeder, Kevin Rice, Katie Schroeder

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

The Last Planner® System has helped thousands of construction teams collaborate better, communicate clearer, and make stronger commitments.

But most teams aren’t getting the results they were promised.

--Foremen still feel the pressure.

--Weekly plans still get rebuilt.

--Roadblocks still show up too late.

--And flow still collapses under the weight of bad production systems.

Here’s the truth:

The Last Planner® System isn’t broken.

It’s just rarely supported the way it was meant to be.

For years, the industry has tried to run a people-centered commitment system on top of CPM schedules, batched zones, unstable milestones, and production plans that don’t flow—then blamed the field when the promises didn’t hold.

That stops here.

In Ten Improvements to the Last Planner® System, Jason Schroeder shares ten field-tested upgrades that transform Last Planner® from “a set of meetings” into what it was always meant to be:

a calm, reliable production control system built on trust, flow, and respect for people.

If you’ve ever felt like Last Planner® almost worked—but never fully stabilized your job…

This book is for you.