TY  - CONF
TI  - Methodology to Quantitatively Assess Collaboration in the Make-Ready Process
C1  - Lille, France
C3  - Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC31)
SP  - 942
EP  - 953
PY  - 2023
DO  - 10.24928/2023/0193
AU  - Lagos, Camilo Ignacio
AU  - Herrera, Rodrigo F.
AU  - Cawley, Alejandro Mac
AU  - Maluk, Pablo
AU  - Alarcón, Luis F.
AD  - PhD Candidate, School of Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, colagos@uc.cl,  orcid.org/0000-0002-0648-0039
AD  - Assistant Professor, School of Civil Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso,  rodrigo.herrera@pucv.cl orcid.org/0000-0001-5186-3154
AD  - Associate Professor, Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile, amac@ing.puc.cl,  orcid.org/0000-0002-4848-4732 
AD  - Student of Civil Engineering, Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile,  pmaluk@uc.cl
AD  - Professor, Dept. of Construction Engineering and Management, Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile,  lalarcon@ing.puc.cl, orcid.org/0000-0002-9277-2272
AB  - The Last Planner System (LPS) promotes collaboration to plan, prepare and execute work systematically. Make-Ready Planning (MRP) is a key LPS component, connecting mid- and short-term planning by proactively identifying and removing constraints. However, systematic deficiencies in MRP implementation have been observed, and MRP assessment mechanisms are limited to constraint management indexes and qualitative assessment of practices. Hence, finding easy to apply ways to quantitatively assess MRP collaboration and its impacts on LPS performance is identified as research opportunity. To address this, a Design Science Research approach was used to propose a methodology for evaluating MRP collaboration using Social Network Analysis (SNA) of objective LPS information captured by existing Information Technology (IT) support systems. This approach allows for the creation of a directional social network of interactions between constraint removal (source) and task execution (target) last planners. Assessing the average degree, centrality, heterogeneity, number of connected components and density allows to identify collaboration improvement opportunities as well as understanding the impact of collaboration on LPS performance, as the project progresses. 
KW  - Last Planner System
KW  - make-ready planning
KW  - constraint analysis
KW  - collaboration
PB  - 
T2  - Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC31)
DA  - 2023/06/26
CY  - Lille, France
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/2128/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/2128
N1  - Export Date: 10 November 2024
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -