Framework for Measuring and Assessing Team Alignment in Construction Projects Based on Target Value Design

• Author / Creator

  Najafizadeh, Nazanin

• Providing value to customers is vital to a construction project’s success. To guide projects toward their target value, team alignment is necessary. The circumstance when the right people are working together on a project to create and realize values that are consistently stated and accepted can be characterized as alignment. Teamwork challenges are an inevitable part of the architectural engineering and construction industry. The team’s existence does not guarantee project success; a dysfunctional team can lead to project failure, wasting money, energy, and time. Team alignment is more challenging in cross-functional teams because members are from different firms with diverse organizational cultures. Teams must be effectively formed, trained, managed, and motivated to avoid performance problems. Lean management is a system that emphasizes continuous improvement, removing non–value-adding (waste) activities, and reducing and enhancing variance, quality, and flow. The foundation of lean project delivery is establishing a learning organization that can effectively adapt and improvises for team performance. Target value design (TVD) is a lean approach that drives the design and construction phases to deliver project goals within the project and team constraints. Different circumstances, facts, or influences that contribute to team alignment improvement (factors) vary within each project based on their values. Also, an aligned team has specific qualities or features regarded as a characteristic (attributes). Measuring and assessing team performance based on TVD using factors is complex and uncertain. This research is filling the gap in the literature review with respect to measurement and assessment of team alignment. The process and its results could help construction project leaders regularly assess and identify team strengths and weaknesses to improve team alignment. A case study is also presented to apply the team alignment measuring framework to measure team alignment on a construction project.

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Target Value Design
  • Team Alignment

• Graduation date

  Fall 2022

• Type of Item

  Thesis

• Degree

  Master of Science

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-bgw0-pn86

• License

  This thesis is made available by the University of Alberta Library with permission of the copyright owner solely for non-commercial purposes. This thesis, or any portion thereof, may not otherwise be copied or reproduced without the written consent of the copyright owner, except to the extent permitted by Canadian copyright law.