fitness for purpose - the kanban way for focused agility
DESCRIPTION
Agile methods have grown interest by many specialist roles. Project managers, analysts, developers and testers want to know about their future role in an Agile environment. Frequent questions from an individual perspective are: Survival or major contribution? New role or new techniques? Taking one step back we recognize, success with Agility does not come via new methodology, roles or techniques. It can only be based upon an understanding for the system and services under consideration. In this session we will explore how Kanban helps to take a systems thinking perspective. Participants learn to understand the differences compared to local attempts for optimization and they take with them actionable thoughts for shaping the Agility of an organizations service delivery.TRANSCRIPT
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