Lean Manufacturing Rollout Kickoff Meeting Agenda
This is a practical guide to building a kickoff meeting agenda for a lean manufacturing rollout project — the agenda that aligns the team and stakeholders at project start, adapted to the realities of implementing Lean across operations.
What a Kickoff Meeting Agenda is
A kickoff meeting agenda is the agenda that aligns the team and stakeholders at project start. For the full concept and how it works in general, see Kickoff Meeting. On a lean manufacturing rollout project it plays the same role, tuned to this kind of work.
Why it matters for a Lean Manufacturing Rollout project
Lean Manufacturing Rollout projects live or die on implementing Lean across operations. A well-built kickoff meeting agenda gives the team a shared, explicit reference for exactly that — reducing ambiguity, aligning stakeholders, and making problems visible early enough to act. Skipping it, or doing it generically, is how lean manufacturing rollout projects drift into avoidable delay and cost.
What to include
- Purpose and objectives
- Scope and plan walkthrough
- Roles (RACI)
- Ways of working
- Next steps
Lean Manufacturing Rollout-specific considerations
Tailor the kickoff meeting agenda to the risks that most often derail lean manufacturing rollout projects:
- Sustaining the change
- Workforce engagement
- Measuring benefits
Example
On a real lean manufacturing rollout project, the kickoff meeting agenda would be shaped by implementing Lean across operations. In particular, it should explicitly account for the project’s biggest risks — sustaining the change, workforce engagement, measuring benefits — rather than treating them as afterthoughts.