resource-waste-audit

When a team is busy but not making progress, a resource waste audit diagnoses whether the bottleneck is rework, duplicated efforts, waiting on decisions, or excessive work-in-progress inventory, ranking each waste by its estimated impact.

After the scope selection step, the audit systematically locates waste instances, estimates their resource costs, and identifies root causes to produce a ranked waste inventory with prioritized recommendations for fixing slow throughput.

The audit applies lean principles by producing a ranked waste inventory that estimates resource costs and outlines prioritized recommendations, specifically targeting duplicated efforts and other inefficiencies to free up team capacity.

A seven-waste scan effectively audits team efficiency by detecting duplicated efforts alongside waiting and motion wastes, generating a ranked inventory with estimated resource costs and targeted actions based on identified root causes.

You need to answer a scope selection question to define the operational boundaries before the audit can map work movement, locate instances of overproduction or inventory waste, and estimate the associated resource costs.