As suggested by its name, the Last Planner庐 System is a planning process centered around collaboration involving the last planners of a project. The last planners usually include the foremen, the project manager, or the design team leaders鈥攖he people left planning a project鈥檚 greater details towards its deadline. In the UK, it is sometimes referred to as Collaborative Planning, and in the USA, it鈥檚 sometimes called Pull Planning.
Developed by the guys who later founded the , it is a planning monitoring, and control system that follows lean construction principles. It was ultimately created to facilitate more reliable and predictable production in projects as well as to support a seamless workflow throughout a project, build collaboration and trust within a project team, and deliver safer and high-quality projects at a faster turnaround time.
LPS organises the team that will execute the work to plan the when and how through a series of conversational processes. As a team, they are required by LPS to remove obstructions as a team, and to deliver each task in a collaborative manner. These organised and methodical procedures ensure reliable workflows, and inject the importance of personal relationships and peer pressure to the entire process.