KISS

keep it simple stupid.  I tend to over complicate things as I’m not a great completed finisher and I like to experience a multitude of things to keep interested and connecting new things.

Getting a measure of the place has been really complicated.  I wanted to see the analysis to make sense of the system so developed the right measure.  Haven’t turned it into a metric yet though.  So here we go – I’m going  to simplify my metrics for the thng I want to progress at home:

Finishing and decoration.  Goal to have as much of the house with homes for things and full of vibrant clean colour – without exhaustion at home or at work; without loss of progress in the garden and without reducing the care and oversight of my animals, both four and two legged.

In order to know how much I have in total to finish and decorate I need to measure it.  My first instinct was count my rooms in my house (that was the project manager in me – thinking how to break it into chunks that I could then put into phases – you know upstairs downstairs/living dining/bathrooms bedrooms.  Then I started I think walls – and surfaces – thinking that each job could be broken down into how many walls done – recognising that big events take organising and I don’t feel like being sociable at the moment because it’s dark and wet and winter and I’m in bear mode.

Then i thought about cycle time to get the jb done – knowing that I am utterly the capacity constrained resource and only have a little time every day to do the work I could set a goal date, figure a rate of progress that is realistic and then set a takt time for each quanified segment of process to build it in as standard work (the only way is to build a habit).

So I always run late in the mornings and I’m always running late to bed.  So just fitting in more isn’t going to well with the goal of doing this without exhaustion.  I can’t outsource this (you’ll know why if you’ve worked for siemens healthcare – it’s a company profit without pay scheme 🙂 and I can’t work less to do it.  I suppose I could take holiday to do it – but for me personally I’m more likely to start the job, get bored star drinking coffee and be found pooling on re-arranging the airing cupboard when people drop in to see how I’m progressing.  Little and often keeps me entertained – I need to recognise that I am completely okay to feed my behavioural beast because she’s mine and she’s at home where she doesn’t need to be constrained by how her work environment currently works.

1. So I need to assign time and prevent it being used on anything else. To make a commitment.  
2. It’ll be hard to hold it.  I’ll need support and good tools.  I’ll need ways to make it fun.  I can use my Bluetooth earpiece to speak with girlfriends afar.  I can listen to iPod stuff that is learning stuff.  
3. I can set aside the full kit that is required and give it a clearly structured home. 
4. I can get research provided and make sure I consult with others to recent easily avoidable problems.
5. I can be okay with some level of failure must occur because life is never as you expect it. 

So where do I start?  A standard or a charter.  Decide if it is standard work or project work.  It’s standard work.  Then your tools are process, method and SMED.  No OEE because to be honest if I need to take a break when I’m painting I’m not going to count the minutes – I’m a Girl so I don’t enjoy sitting in my own stink reading the paper:) 

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I have I suppose 5 metres of skirting will equal x minutes and so I need  and then figure out if my takt time is