So a slight confession, I am a major “tv-holic” and I love watching stuff that is both entertaining but also has some value. There were two shows that have really captured my attention and specially in regards of project management. In the quest to manage projects successfully, there are key things one has to note. There are the lessons that will help you succeed and the ever dreadful pitfalls. Outlined below are salient lessons, and possible pitfalls on successful project management that are drawn from the show "7 days out" and "Fyre." Let's start with the notable lessons:
Proper Planning and Preparation: No project is successful without a concrete plan. A plan is the first step to achieving your set project goal. A plan shows you the mapped out direction and course of action for intended projects. A plan should include everything necessary to make a project work, people, venue, equipment, target, money, and dates. In the first episode of the "7 Days Out" show, the organizers of the Westminster dog show, mention the numbers of participating states, the size, and nature of the venue and the amount of work that had gone into making the venue suitable for the event. Planning involves a lot of research, and frankly, you have to start early.
 Put The Right People In Charge: Your project is as good as the people who handle the different aspects that make it a whole. Face it; there is just so much only you can handle; you need people. For a successful project, you sometimes have to trust the ability of other people and put them in charge of areas where they are skilled and can function optimally. The owners of the high end restaurant Elevan Madison Park did just that and you could see that even though they were meticulous they trusted their project manager and closest staff.
Teamwork: Asides putting people in a position where they can work optimally, no project succeeds without the collective input and hard work of all members. It is important to note that at the beginning of a project, all parties know the exact vision of the projects and are willing to work according to that vision and even help other members of the team when and where necessary. In one Episode of the show, there was a team of scientist working together to create a robot, Casini. At the point of creating the spaceship for Casini, over 5,000 people had to work on various parts of the spaceship. This is a team effort, combined knowledge. The success of a project is a success for every member of the team.
 Have Backup Plans: Nothing is certain. Plans fall through, and failures happen, do not forget to make room for them. Times, where things go wrong with your project, should often be met with backup plans. Think ahead, make provisions for the things that may fail so, you are not caught unawares. Preparedness is key.
Now, let's talk about the pitfalls to a successful project:
Setting Unrealistic Goals: It is okay to dream big, however, when carrying out a project, it is of utmost importance to draw the line between delusions and reality. A project might fail because of the unrealistic goals and deadline one has set for them. For instance, in the "Fyre" documentary, the founders had tried to hold a music festival and accommodate 8,000 people on a small island in the Bahamas. This island had no electricity or proper waste disposal system, and the organizers were to start developing houses/tents and waste disposal system on a very short time frame, how ridiculous!? From the get-go, this was a project that was intended to fail.
Accountability Issues: This plays a major role in the successes of projects. As a project manager, you might start to believe you are not accountable to anyone and so, you act nonchalantly and still think the project will be successful, irrespective. The truth is, you have to be accountable even if you are not being watched, to yourself, your team and every other party that matters. Financial accountability is necessary for counting loses calculating gains. This was apparent in the Fyre documentary when the founder was able to deceive a lot of people and no one was able to push past that. Many on the team even stated that they regretted how far it went.
Inadequate Resources: Resources here could be financial, human or otherwise. Do not set about a project where you lack heavily on resources. Do not bank on the resources that are yet to come and launch on to starting a big project. Doing this is already a recipe for disaster. In the Fyre documentary resources were scarce and came into the picture way to late.
This is just a top of the iceberg but still, I recommend anyone that has Netflix to watch “7days out” for good examples of project management and “Fyre” to see everything fail.

Viltu stytta uppstillitíma á vélunum eða hreinsitími milli aðgerða? Þá gæti verið gott að halda SMED umbótastofu. SMED stendur fyrir single minute exchange of a die, en Taihi Ohno sagði að engin uppstilling ætti að taka meira en 10 mínútur.

Hvernig áramótaheit eruð þið að setja ykkur?
Ég valdi mér þrjár megin áherslur fyrir 2019 og undir hverjum flokki er markmið. Síðan braut ég hvert markmið út í minni mælanleg markmið svo ég get séð strax hvort að ég muni ná áramótaheitinu eða ekki :)
Áherslurnar mínar fyrir næsta ár er Heilsa - Fjölskylda - Fjármál.

Núna eru allir að gera sig klára til þess að hefja 2019. Sennilega eruð þið búin að fara í gegnum ykkar stefnumótun fyrir næsta ár en það gæti verið gott fyrir ykkur að hlusta á þennan fyrirlestur um mikilvægti þess að vera með réttu markmiðin :)

Vonandi hafið þið átt frábært ár og eruð búin að setja ykkur markmið fyrir næsta :)
Vonandi sjáumst við á Lean Ísland 15.mars 2019!
Kær kveðja,
Lean.is og Lean Ísland teymið!

Hér er verið að plana máltíðir jólanna. Að sjálfsögðu haft sjónrænt svo auðvelt sé að búa til innkaupalista. Síðan er búið að merkja vínin með grænum punkti (hentar mjög vel með kalkún), gulum (gengur með kalkún) og rauðum (ekki drekka með kalkún). Þannig er tryggt að hver sem sækir flöskuna veit hvað er í lagi :)

Stutt myndband þar sem ég fer yfir hvað gemba er og hvað maður gerir þegar maður fer þangað :)

​Góður fyrirlestur um hvatningu starfsmanna eða "motivation". 
Kerry talar um að það sé misskilningur að hægt sé að hvetja starfsmenn áfram. Hún segir að þeir séu nú þegar áhugasamir. Lykilinn sé að sleppa hvatningunni lausri. 
Hún fer dýpra í hvað hvatning er, hvernig er hægt að nýta hana og hvað það er sem getur hamlað árangri.

Lean Ísland er að leita af fyrirlesurum í íslensku línuna. Ef þú hefur áhuga á að tala um hvað fyrirtækið þitt er að gera til þess að ná árangri endilega sendu okkur línu á [email protected] :)
Umsóknarfrestur rennur út 10.desember 2018 :)

Verður haldin miðvikudaginn 31.október og mun ég halda fyrirlesturinn "Comparing apples to apples" og er ég þá að fara ofan í saumana á því hvernig er best að bera sig að við "benefit tracking" í verkefnum og hversu mikilvægt það er að nota sömu mælingar og lagt var upp með í byrjun.
​Vonandi sé ég sem flesta :)

Ég, Agnes og Hjálmar erum að fara af stað með mjög spennandi námskeið undir línuni "Ferla og gæðastjórnun" í samstarfi með opna háskólanum. 
Námskeiðið er 4 lotur og er kennt 1 sinni í viku í 4 skipti. 
Lota 1: Stjórnun gæða og verkefna, kennari Agnes Hólm
Lota 2: Stjórnun ferla og virðis, kennari: Viktoría Jensdóttir
Lota 3: Stjórnun umbóta, kennari Hjálmar
Lota 4: Stjórnun teyma, hér verðum við öll að kenna.

Nánari upplýsingar er hægt að fá hér:
https://www.ru.is/opnihaskolinn/lengri-namskeid/ferla-og-gaedastjornun/ 

​Hlakka til að sjá sem flesta en skráning hefur farið fram úr væntingum og er næstum uppselt á námskeiðið. Ég er þó viss um að við munum halda þetta aftur :)

So how would this trip have been different with UBER? For starters I would put in the app where I was going and the UBER driver would tell me right away if he wanted the trip and how much it would be. I would be picked up and dropped of and I would pay and get a receipt with the UBER app. In addition I could tip and rate the driver in the app and the driver can also rate me. This keeps the customer focus more on top!
So yes, I will wait for that UBER next time, what will you do!

Ég hef áður fjallað um staðlaða vinnu á þessari síðu og deilt sniðmátum sem hjálpa mér við að skipuleggja vinnuna mína. Það eru til tvær gerðir af staðlaðri vinnu, fyrir sérfræðinga/stjórnendur og svo rútínustörf. Í þessu myndbandi fer ég yfir þetta og hægt er svo að nálgast sniðmátin hér á síðunni undir "efni".

To better understand this answer, it helps to look at some of the important traits of the Japanese culture. One of the biggest parts of this involves the concept of “kata”. These are general societal rules and patterns of behaviors that the Japanese exhibit in their everyday life. Since this is an ingrained part of the Japanese culture, the standard practices of business come very naturally to people in this country. As part of their culture, the Japanese are also known for being perfectionists in everything that they do. They take a great deal of pride in their work, so they take a great deal of care to train their employees to ensure the highest quality of work.
Another big part of this concept of lean is listening and patience. Toyota is a company that has been heavily associated with lean. One of the things that makes this company so unique is that rather than just barking orders, they encourage workers to develop their own skills and problem-solving abilities. There is also a focus more on the long-term goals of a company rather than the short-term. These are all areas that exemplify how crucial patience is to the Japanese culture. In fact, to be considered an expert in any field it takes a great deal of time so patience is necessary.
Lean is all about how you organize a business to make it more efficient. The purpose is to maximize value and reduce waste. The Japanese culture is known for valuing cleanliness and order, both in the way their live their everyday life and how they run their businesses. If everything is meticulously organized, you can reduce waste because you know exactly what you have and what you need. This applies to office supplies and workflow management. You are able to see who should be working on what to know what needs to get done. It makes the business run more efficiently.

It is therefore interesting to see how both the Japanese team and fans left the stadium after a heartbreaking loss to Belgium they still cleaned the stadium and locker room, the team even left a thank you note. If you google "Japanese fans" often picture of them cleaning comes up because this is a behavior you don't normally see in the football stadium.
Picture taken from Reuters

Þegar ég hef verið að kenna um lean hugmyndafræðina, stöðugar umbætur, gæðastjórnun og jafnvel verkefnastjórnun er ég oft spurð um hvernig ég myndi haga innleiðingu. Í þessu myndbandi fer ég yfir helstu spurningar sem ég fæ varðandi innleiðingu. ​

Virðisgreining er frábært tól til að greina ferlana sína. Notuð eruð ákveðin tákn til þess að sjá sóun betur. Munurinn á virðisgreiningu og hefðbundinni ferlagreiningu er að í þessari möppun er bæði verið að taka tíman á hverju skrefi fyrir sig og bið. Ásamt því er verið að mappa upp tölvukerfin.
Í þessum tveimur myndböndum fer ég yfir þetta og svo eru sniðmát á síðunni "efni". 

If you watch football you probably heard that Iceland became the smallest nation to compete in the world cup in football. We, the Icelandic people, are insanely proud of our team, their work ethic, talent and how far they have been able to go. Even if they have dropped out of their section we are so thankful that we have had a team to root on and they made us all extremely happy and proud. The above picture is even taken in a venue that showed the Argentina - Iceland game outside in the pouring rain and there were loads of people watching and the streets were deserted. What I find even more interesting is why this is happening and I am pretty sure that there are many reasons but one of them I do believe is their coach Heimir Hallgrímsson - part time coach, part time dentist. If you go to the Robert K. Greenleaf Center for Servant leadership it states what servant leadership is:

For me Heimir Hallgrímsson is an outstanding example of a servant leader.
In an article by Skip Richard he lists up 9 characteristics that a servant leader has and I believe Heimir Hallgrímsson has.​

Núna er ég búin að setja inn fimm myndbönd um A3.
Oft er talað um 3 gerðir af þristum, vandamála, verkefna og stöðu. Best er að byrja á litlu vandamáli og æfa sig að gera þrist áður en er farið í flóknari verkefni. Í þessum myndböndum útskýri ég hvern þrist fyrir sig ásamt helstu spurningum sem ég fæ um A3.

Ég er ótrúlega stolt af umbótaskólanum sem ég tók þátt í að hanna og kenndi í þegar ég starfaði á landspítalanum. 
​Hér er stutt myndband um skólann!

Eitt af því sem er notað í spuna sem var verið að hvetja okkur að nota líka í business var að nota yes and hugmyndafræðina. En fræðin segja að um leið og þegar þú segir nei eða já en þá sértu búin að drepa niður sköpun og stoppa flæði.
Þannig ef þig vantar bók til þess að lesa í sumarfríinu þá er hægt er að lesa um þetta í bókinni "yes and" en hér er myndband þar sem Tina Fey snillingur útskýrir þetta :)
Í seinna myndbandinu er hún að nýta sér yes and í innovation lab :)