A U.S. aerospace supplier
Two engine programs' plans accelerated by more than 5 months before work began.
From changes the teams found while building the plans together.
> 5 monthscut from two programs' plans
> 3 monthsfrom five changes on one program
The situation
Engine development programs where the committed date was far out of line with the work, and key parts took a year to procure.
What changed
Cross-functional teams built each plan together, the sponsor cut the schedule with them, and weekly updates ran on how much schedule margin was left.
The result
- Five changes to the schedule pulled more than 3 months out of one program's plan by revealing bottlenecks and relieving key team members of non-critical work.
- On a second program, adding one mechanical engineer took 49 days out of the plan.
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