Common use of Lean Project Delivery Clause in Contracts

Lean Project Delivery. The IPD Team shall implement the principles of Lean Project Delivery. The Parties acknowledge that fundamental to the success of Lean Project Delivery is the willingness and ability of all IPD Team Members to make and secure reliable promises as the basis for planning and executing the Project. Accordingly, the IPD Team Members shall ensure that the following elements are present for all promises: 1.2.1 the conditions of satisfaction are clear to all parties; 1.2.2 the promissor is competent to perform the promised actions, or has access to the competence to perform such actions, and has the wherewithal (materials, tools, equipment, instructions) to perform the promised actions; 1.2.3 the promissor has estimated the time to perform the task and has internally allocated adequate resources and has blocked the time on its internal schedule; 1.2.4 the promissor is sincere in the moment that the promise is made, only making the promise if it believes that the promise reasonably can be fulfilled; and 1.2.5 the promissor is prepared to accept the legal and reasonable consequences that may ensue if the promise cannot be performed as promised and will promptly advise the Core Group if confidence is lost that the task can be performed as promised.