ALP Certification Requirements & Performance of Top-level Competencies

Certification Requirements

To achieve ALP Certification, a participant must:

1. Complete required ALP preparation work. Prep work required elements include Data Box Template, Time Observation Template, Lean Cell Assessment Worksheet, and VSA Scope section.
2. Attend four (4) days of just-in-time training and complete course evaluation.
3. Pass exam to demonstrate knowledge from training.
4. Act as lead facilitator on one VSA event with the plan approved/signed off by the Executive Sponsor and HealthTAP Lean Coach. 
5. Establish and support the Value Stream Improvement Team (VSIT) management process. Required certification elements of the management process include the first Rapid Improvement Event (RIE) starting within 60 days of VSA event; effective countermeasures; and completion through successful closure of two RIEs.
6. Complete VSA A3 submissions to meet Scope, Solve, and Sustain timelines and receive HealthTAP Lean Coach approval for each submission..
7. Continue the use of journaling, knowledge cards, and other learning-from-experience habits started as an LP.

Certification valid for three (3) years from date of issue. Failure to meet the certification requirements may impact your ability to become certified through the Advanced Lean Practitioner Path.

Performance of Top-level Competencies

An ALP will develop and demonstrate the following competencies:

• Prepare for and deliver four-day VSA events. Map and analyze the current state, define the reengineered state, define the future state, create a value stream improvement plan, perform a VSA metric alignment assessment and create scoping charters for rapid improvement events and projects identified within the value stream improvement plan.
• Assist with organizing and facilitating the value stream management process including VSIT meetings; updating the A3 and visual management for the value stream; gemba walks; planning for upcoming improvement events; troubleshooting events in the sustain HealthTAPse; and otherwise assisting the value stream owner in the implementation of lean.
• Use HealthTAP’s framework for a lean service cell including demand, flow dynamics (push/pull and one-piece/batch); standard work; 5S and visual management to assess, design and facilitate the implementation of service cells across a value stream.
• Prepare for, deliver, and facilitate to closure complex RIEs, well-established lean solutions such as rapid room turnover and supply pull systems, and those events that make use of choice architecture and other advance behavior change techniques.
• Identify lean improvements that are spread-ready and facilitate their diffusion across the organization by organizing and implementing a spread program.
• Identify the need for, and provide coaching and just-in-time training on lean principles and tools to value stream leaders as well as other managers and leaders in the organization.