This thesis is about Lean Project Management with the main focus on Visual Management Tools. Commissioning company is Parker Hannifin Manufacturing Finland Oy. More precisely the customer of this thesis is the Parker Forssa unit and the Product Engineering Department. This topic is very current at the moment and it was a prerequisite from the customer to focus on lean project management tools.

Main objectives of this thesis are examining the current situation of the project management tools at the Product Engineering Department at Parker Forssa, exploring how the project management could be improved by lean visual management tools, and finally provide a plan how to utilize, monitor, and sustain the visual management tools.

Ronald Mascitelli, the author of Mastering Lean Product Development, has studied product development for decades and he has developed lean methods and visual management tools as well as implemented them in several companies. His expertise and theory have been applied in this thesis. As a part of this thesis, Mascitelli’s visual project board concept was implemented at Parker Forssa. For six weeks the use of the visual project board was observed and after the observation period a survey was conducted.

Survey results were positive; all the engineers and the managers related to the implementation of the visual project board replied in the survey that this method should be continued in the Product Engineering Department. Modifying the visual project board from the current single-project visual board to a multi-project visual board is recommended. Also integrating the visual project board with the actual project plan in electrical format is a recommended further action for the commissioning company.