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Key words:

Proyecto, Project Management, PMBOK®, Project Management Institute (PMI), Lean Thinking, Lean Construction Institute, Project Management, PMBOK®, Critical Path, Critical Chain, Project Management Institute (PMI), Lean Thinking, Lean Construction Institute, LPDS, Last Planner System (LP).

Article type:

ARTICULO DE INVESTIGACION / RESEARCH ARTICLE

Section:

RESEARCH ARTICLES

PMBOK® standards, provided by the Project Management Institute (PMI), are widely accepted in Project Management. On the other hand,
Lean Thinking philosophy is based on the strict fulfillment of customer needs, avoiding anything not valuable from the client viewpoint. In
the last few years, Lean Thinking philosophy has been applied to construction projects, so as to become a differentiated management system, called “Lean Construction”. Moreover, some authors believe that projects with certain level of uncertainty cannot be managed using PMBOK® standards, but have to be managed by the standards provided by the “Lean Construction Institute”. Nevertheless, in this article the compatibility of both methods is defended. Specialized literature has been revised in order to compare Project Management and Lean Construction methods. Lean Construction projects results have been analyzed in order to prove that their achievements have been remarkable in terms of predictability of time
and cost. Discussion has been done so as to prove the compatibility of Project management and Lean Construction. As a conclusion, the article proposes a model to implement both methods in a systematic and feasible way.