Jason records from a hotel room in Guadalajara, Mexico, before delivering a Takt training at LCI Mexico, and tackles one of the biggest reasons projects say Takt planning didn't work for them: the rigid five day Takt time locked between Monday and Saturday. He walks through when a five day Takt is the right call (early conceptual and schematic design schedules), when it stops working (during optimization and execution), and why locking yourself into the week prevents eating into buffers when interruptions hit. The episode is a direct invitation to open up to other Takt times and to let the phase shift by a day or two when reality calls for it.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• When a five day Takt with weekend buffers is the right tool: conceptual and schematic design

• The 20 percent gap between bid duration and actual duration that macro level Takt planning closes to about five percent

• Why locking into Monday through Saturday prevents real optimization with Little's law

• How over packing Takt wagons turns Takt planning into push planning the moment something delays

• Why shifting a phase by one, two, or three days to eat into buffers is the right response to interruption

Don't lock the calendar to the calendar. Let the math, the optimization, and the buffers do their job.

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