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Kaizen Checklist Two weeks or more before the project: Identify project leader (Champion) and Management Sponsor Choose team members and confirm availability with their managers Prepare a Project Approach and collect any historical data required to support the project Reserve a team room for the project One week before the project: Sponsor - review and approve the Project Approach Notify team members that they are on the team (do this early in the week) Determine who should attend the following events, and invite them: Management Review Celebration Dinner Final Presentation Arrange to bring in lunches for the team during the project One to two days before the project: Hold a 10 minute team meeting to gain commitment from each team member Assure the project cell/ area is properly scheduled to support planned time observations (representative parts) Gather any supplies required for the project (flipcharts, post-it notes, area maps/layouts, area schedules, etc) Print out copies of the Project Approach for the team Project Day 1: Team training or team building exercise Review the Project Approach with the team Discovery – Conduct observations in the project area Analysis – Quantify observations and use team tools to do a “before” analysis Project Day 2: Brainstorm – Brainstorming focused on team goals and objectives, based on information collected from the discovery and analysis phases. This usually starts with the full group, which may be broken into smaller sub-teams depending on the project. Plan – Soon after lunch, the team should re-group and begin to analyze the ideas they have gathered. This often includes ranking ideas based on impact, cost, and ease of implementation. By mid-afternoon they should have a good idea of what they want to implement as a team. Management Update – The purpose of this informal review is to get management approval on ideas the team plans to implement that week. In addition, the project leader may prepare management to use this tim