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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Copyright: Mike Rother
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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
