fitness for purpose - the kanban way for focused agility

Fitness for PurposeThe Kanban way for focused Agility

Mike Leber

Sarajevo, 27.10. 2014

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„Without changing our patterns of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems we created with our current patterns of thought “(Albert Einstein)

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• Agile / Lean and Systemic Coach

• Trainer for Scrum and Kanban

• Management 3.0 Facilitator

• Community Geek

• Lecturer

Mike Leber

Consulting , Training, Coaching for The Learning Organization

Adaptive Organizations - Leadership & Change

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Unser Leistungsfokus

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Agile Transitions?

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Current

Target

Our desired Change Path

Mike Burrows

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Change Paths in Reality

Kübler-Ross: Change curve

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IUMRING TQGQNGIUSIQNS

Read what you see

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IUMRING TQGQNGIUSIQNS

Our brain automatically fills in blanks, instead of saying to us “Sorry, I don’t know yet”

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Mike Rother‘s Toyota Kata

Iterative Experiments drive us towards a desired condition.We don‘t know yet, how to achieve it & if we will achieve it at all.

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Mind the Culture - Cargo Cult

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Capabilities

Market

Demand

Understand Risk,Demand & Capability

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Kanban Agendas

• Senior Level – “Survivability Agenda”– Make promises they can keep

– Lead the business in terms of Strategy & Positioning

• Mid-level – “Service-Oriented Agenda”– Up-managing – answer the hard questions with

confidence

– Down-managing – make difficult decisions with confidence

• Line-level - “Sustainability Agenda”– Relief from overburdening

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Evolutionary Organizations are Learning Organizations

• Systems Thinking

• Mastery

• Mental Models

• Shared Vision

• Collaborative Learning & Evolving

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Organizational Fitness

It starts with Understanding

• Business, Customers & Risk

• Demand & Capability

• Current Performance

• Driving Experiments to learn & improve

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Drivers for Business Agility

Decide Act Learn

Service DeliveryService ImplementationService Definition

Commitment Point 1 Commitment Point 2

• Pool of Ideas• Business Risk• Options

• Lead Time• Quality• Improvement

• Feedback• Validation• Value

I IFlow

Values – Principles – Emerging Practices

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Core Kanban Practices

• Visualize

• Limit Work in Process (WIP)

• Manage Flow

• Make policies explicit

• Implement feedback loops

• Improve collaboratively, evolve experimentally(using models & the scientific method)

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Transparency about Risk & Fitnessvia Feedback Loops

OperationsReview

ServiceDeliveryReview

StandupMeeting

daily

weekly

monthly

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Evolutionary Path

EvolvingProcess

Rollforward

Rollback

InitialProcess

Future process is emergent

EvaluateFitness

EvaluateFitness

EvaluateFitness

EvaluateFitness

EvaluateFitness

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• Start where you are• Initially respect existing job titles, roles & processes

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Explore ServicesDem

and

ObservedCapability

Dem

and

Dem

and

ObservedCapability

ObservedCapability

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Scaling based upon emergent Capability

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Conclusion

• Mind prescribed templates to be installed

• Build Values and Principles, growing a Shared Vision

• Understand your business, try to evolve it experimentally and collaboratively

• Foster Leadership on all Levels