https://doi.org/10.24928/2023/0111

Developing a Framework for Assessing Team Alignment in Construction Using TVD

Nazanin Najafizadeh¹ & Farook Hamzeh²

¹MSc graduate, Civil and Environmental Engineering Dept, University of Alberta, 116 St. and 85 Ave., Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2R3, [email protected], orcid.org/0009-0009-5835-1851
²Associate Professor, Hole School of Construction Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, [email protected], orcid.org/0000-0002-3986-9534

Abstract

Customers’ value is crucial to the success of a construction project, and team alignment is required to steer projects toward their intended value. Alignment is when the right people work together on a project to generate and achieve values that are consistently communicated and accepted. In the architecture, engineering, and building industry, teamwork challenges are inevitable. The existence of a team does not guarantee the success of the project, and a dysfunctional team might result in project failure, wasting resources such as time, money, and energy. Target value design (TVD) is a lean approach that leads the design and construction phases to meet project objectives while adhering to team and project limits. Based on their values, each project has different conditions, facts, or impacts that help strengthen team alignment (factors). Additionally, a team that is aligned has particular qualities that are recognized as attributes. Measuring and assessing team performance based on TVD using factors is complex. This research fills the gap in the literature review concerning the measurement and assessment of team alignment. The process and its results could help construction project leaders regularly assess and identify team strengths and weaknesses to improve team alignment. A case study is also presented to apply the proposed framework to measure team alignment on a construction project, to improve team performance.

Keywords

Lean construction, target value design, collaboration, and team alignment.

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Najafizadeh, N. & Hamzeh, F. 2023. Developing a Framework for Assessing Team Alignment in Construction Using TVD, Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC31) , 858-869. doi.org/10.24928/2023/0111

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