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Lean Daily Management Huddle Template

Hoshin Kanri / Lean 15 min Daily Team and team lead at the board (4-12 people)

The lean daily management huddle is a short, standing meeting held at a visual board where a team aligns for the day. Rooted in Lean daily management and the tiered huddle systems of the Toyota Production System, it keeps performance visible, surfaces problems early, and connects frontline work to the broader plan, all in ten to fifteen minutes.

When to use it

Run it every working day, at the same time and the same board, so it becomes an unshakeable habit. In larger organizations these huddles tier upward: frontline teams huddle first, then leads carry escalations to a higher-tier huddle, so issues travel to where they can be solved within the day.

Who attends

The full team plus the team lead, gathered at the board, four to twelve people. Everyone stands to keep it fast. This is the team own meeting to run the day, not a status report for absent managers.

How to run it

Open with safety and a quick people check, then review yesterday against plan using the visual board so status is seen, not described. Confirm today plan and surface constraints before they bite. Raise issues, solve the quick ones immediately, and park the rest with an owner. Anything the team cannot resolve gets escalated to the next tier. The whole point is speed and visibility: a daily rhythm that catches problems while they are still small.

Facilitator tips

  • Keep it standing and keep it to fifteen minutes, every day.
  • Let the visual board carry the data so talk stays short.
  • Solve quick issues live; park deeper ones rather than debating them.
  • Escalate cleanly to the next tier when the team cannot resolve an issue.

Common mistakes

  • Letting the huddle sprawl into a sit-down problem-solving meeting.
  • Reporting status the board already shows instead of acting on it.
  • Raising issues with no owner, so they linger on the board for weeks.
  • Failing to escalate, so frontline problems never reach a fix.

Run a tight daily rhythm. Run it in OrgTP and keep the board, issues, and escalations visible across every tier.

Agenda

15 minutes total · 5 sections

  1. Safety and people check 2 min
    Open at the board with any safety items and a quick check that the team has who and what it needs for the day.
  2. Yesterday vs plan 4 min
    Review yesterday key metrics against plan on the visual board, marking what hit and what missed.
  3. Today plan and constraints 4 min
    Confirm today plan and surface any constraints, shortages, or risks that could stop the team from hitting it.
  4. Issues and quick wins 3 min
    Raise new issues; resolve the quick ones on the spot and park the rest on the board for follow-up.
  5. Escalate and assign 2 min
    Escalate anything the team cannot solve to the next tier and confirm who owns each parked item.

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