TY  - CONF
TI  - What Does a Commitment to a Plan Mean?
C1  - Lille, France
C3  - Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC31)
SP  - 1407
EP  - 1417
PY  - 2023
DO  - 10.24928/2023/0251
AU  - Skaar, John
AU  - Bølviken, Trond
AU  - Kalsaas, Bo Terje
AU  - Koskela, Lauri
AD  - PhD Student/Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering and Science, Department of Engineering Sciences,  University of Agder, N-4846 Grimstad, Norway, john.skaar@uia.no, orcid.org/0000-00032290-2374 
AD  - Professor, Faculty of Engineering and Science, Department of Engineering Sciences, University of Agder, N4846 Grimstad, Norway, trond.bolviken@outlook.com, orcid.org/0000-0003-4834-2408
AD  - Professor emeritus, Dr. Ing., Faculty of Engineering and Science, Department of Engineering Sciences,  University of Agder, N-4846 Grimstad, Norway, bo.t.kalsaas@uia.no, orcid.org/0000-0003-43831683
AD  - Professor, School of Art, Design and Architecture, University of Huddersfield, UK, l.koskela@hud.ac.uk,  orcid.org/0000-0003-4449-2281 
AB  - A plan in the making should pull from what creates customer value and from the performers' knowledge and understanding of the context. A plan for commitment should represent the customer's intent in a way that calls for action on the intent's behalf. A promise to commit to a plan happens at many levels and in many forms toward execution, and every promise made becomes a push mechanism to keep that promise. Since a plan represents both push and pull around a commitment, knowledge about these mechanisms can help to understand a plan's function. The main contribution is a reflection on how a plan's push for commitment interacts with emergent situations and an analysis of what part of the commitment is within or outside the scope of the promise and the promiser's influence and control. The promise made committing to a workplan as input to a Percent Plan Complete measurement is used as a practical example. The paper's conclusion arguably strengthens many of the existing parts and principles of the Last Planner System but also gives suggestions for improvement. 
KW  - Complexity
KW  - Commitment
KW  - Promise
KW  - Construction
KW  - Project-Based Production
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/2178/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/2178
N1  - Export Date: 24 April 2025
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -