Joe Donarumo serves Linbeck as Senior Superintendent where he has been able to develop and lead high-performing field teams across Linbeck’s Healthcare market group. Joe also serves Linbeck as their Director of Lean Application, ensuring that Linbeck's Lean processes are continuously improved and consistently practiced. Joe has a unique passion for Lean implementation, continuous improvement, and a ruthless pursuit of waste elimination within his projects, teams, and overall organization.
Joe is also the Co-Author to The Lean Builder, a business fable written for field leaders and last planners to help them begin their Lean journey with respect to Lean implementation at the field level.
A construction daily huddle meeting can easily go off track if you have an attendee who happens to have the gift of gab. Lean expert Joe Donarumo explains how to keep your meetings on topic and offers up a few tips on how to manage those “Sheldon Coopers” in your group.
For the best daily huddle ideas in Lean construction, The Lean Builder is your premier source. Today’s tip is on the power of starting and ending your daily huddles on time by Lean expert Joe Donarumo.
Take your construction site safety to the next level using lean principles. Lean expert Joe Donarumo explains how to use Lean tools such as the Daily Huddle and Visual Communication Boards to boost project safety.
Visual communication is an essential element when it comes to the practice of Lean principles. In this blog, Lean expert Joe Donarumo details 4 tips to make your workspace a visual powerhouse.
Joe Donarumo guides us through the Eight Wastes of Lean in the construction environment. Learn what the 8 wastes of Lean are and what you can do to mitigate them.
In our latest Daily Huddle Tips blog, we’ll be discussing why your team should stand during the Lean Construction daily huddle meeting.
As my family has grown, my wife and I have adapted some Lean Construction practices that have made managing our household and raising our children more efficient. Due to social distancing measures I’ve been home more often than usual, so I’ve had extra time to reflect on my own family’s journey with Lean— and why now, during the CoVID-19 pandemic, is the best time to “sharpen the axe” and improve some of our home’s Lean practices.
If you’re still not sold as to why you need a daily huddle, please read this post: “Why Huddle,” and see if we can’t change your mind. If you have switched to a daily huddle, then this blog hopes to help you accomplish keeping it short.