The document discusses the nine values of Kanban and how they relate to three agendas for change: improvement, organizational change, and service transformation. The values are understanding, agreement, respect, transparency, balance, collaboration, customer focus, flow, and leadership. Each value is then discussed in more detail and related to specific concepts and practices (CPs) like visualizing workflow, limiting work in progress, and improving collaboratively. The three agendas are also defined in terms of how the values apply to team adoption, capabilities, problem solving, customer focus, flow management, and organizational change.
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Kanban through its values: agendas for change
1. Kanban through its values:
agendas for change
Mike Burrows
@asplake
mike@djaa.com
positiveincline.com
meldstrong.com
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3. What is Kanban?
The Kanban method [1] is an
evolutionary approach to change
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4. What is Kanban?
Kanban is the humane,
“start with what you do now”
approach to change
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5. Kanban through nine values
understanding
agreement
respect
transparency
balance
collaboration
customer focus
flow
leadership
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6. Nine values, three agendas
Improvement
A1
Organizational Change
understanding
agreement
respect
A2
transparency
balance
collaboration
A3
Service Transformation
customer focus
flow
leadership
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7. A1 A2 A3
A1
Improvement
transparency
balance
collaboration
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A1 A2 A3 transparency
CP1: Visualize
CP4: Make policies explicit
CP5: Implement feedback loops
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Make knowledge work visible, organize it
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Self-organize around the work
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Capture learning
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policies - local
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When priorities need
to change, inform the
people affected
policies - global
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On hold
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Proposed
Prioritised
60
Ready for Dev
Dev
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Testing
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feedback loops: informed by data
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feedback loops: involve people
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CP1: Visualize
CP4: Make policies explicit
CP5: Implement feedback loops
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A1 A2 A3 balance
CP2: Limit work-in-progress (WIP)
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Pull systems for knowledge work
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Pull systems for knowledge work
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Pull systems for knowledge work
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demand vs capacity
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urgency-driven vs date-driven
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date-driven vs interrupt driven
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short, medium & long term
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delivery, improvement, experiment
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customer, team, organization
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CP2: Limit work-in-progress (WIP)
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CP6: Improve
collaboratively, evolve
experimentally
[using models [and the scientific method]]
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creative relationships
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the means to solve problems…
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…and an improvement focus
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Models
Internal
External
How
things
work
✔
✔
How to
change
them
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Build & borrow models
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Plan
Act
Do
Check
Evolve experimentally
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CP6: Improve
collaboratively, evolve
experimentally
[using models [and the scientific method]]
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35. A1 A2 A3
A1
Improvement
transparency
balance
collaboration
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36. A1 A2 A3 The improvement
agenda
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Team-level adoption
Capabilities, predictability
Model-driven improvement
Collaborative problem solving
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37. A1 A2 A3
A2
Service Transformation
customer focus
flow
leadership
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CP3: Manage flow
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“Knowing what you’re delivering,
to whom, and why”
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Assure satisfaction
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Discover what will be needed
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Discover what will be needed
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Discover what will be needed
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Discover what will be needed
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...anticipating the mobility
needs of people and society
ahead of time
from The Toyota Promise
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FP4: Encourage acts of
leadership at all levels in your
organization –
from individual contributors to
senior management
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A1 A2 A3 leadership
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understanding
agreement
respect
transparency
balance
collaboration
customer focus
flow
leadership
Small acts of leadership [13]
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1. What is the process?
2. How can we see that it is working?
3. How is it improving?
A leadership routine
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FP4: Encourage acts of
leadership at all levels in your
organization –
from individual contributors to
senior management
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A2
Service Transformation
customer focus
flow
leadership
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66. A1 A2 A3 The service
transformation
agenda
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Customer-focused knowledge
discovery [15]
Service-oriented delivery
architectures
End-to-end flow management
Portfolio risk management
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67. A1 A2 A3
Organizational Change
understanding
agreement
respect
A3
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FP1: Start with what you do now
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FP1 (expanded):
Start with what you do
now, understanding [4]:
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how it serves and frustrates the customer
how it works and fails to work for you
how it might be changed safely
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• Are we tampering? [5]
• Is it bravado? [6]
Questions of safety
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How much damage?
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Do we have the patience?
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FP1 (expanded):
Start with what you do
now, understanding [4]:
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how it serves and frustrates the customer
how it works and fails to work for you
how it might be changed safely
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FP2: Agree to pursue
evolutionary change
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agreement from
vs
agreement between
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agreement in principle,
vs
agreement in practice
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Managers,
Higher Organization,
Corporate
Systems
Less this…
Customers
YOU
Peers,
Others
Impacted
Team
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…more this:
The
CustomersChange
Team
Team
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Peers,
Others
Impacted
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Fitness
Rinse &
repeat:
Time
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FP2: Agree to pursue
evolutionary change
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FP3: Initially, respect current
roles, responsibilities & job titles
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…the dream of an empowered, selforganizing, trusting, respectful
workplace…
…the dream of organizations that
deliver high quality and delight
customers with designs that empower
rather than frustrate…
…the dream of a workplace where
cycle times are so short that ideas are
turned into valuable functionality
when they are needed…
Yes we Kanban!
David J Anderson [14]
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understanding
agreement
respect
transparency
balance
collaboration
customer focus
flow
leadership
Respect is a key test
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FP3: Initially, respect current
roles, responsibilities & job titles
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86. A1 A2 A3
Organizational Change
understanding
agreement
respect
A3
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87. A1 A2 A3 The organizational
change agenda
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Disciplined engagement
Systems & complexity thinking
Change capability, safety
Organizational learning
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89. What is Kanban?
Kanban is the humane,
“start with what you do now”
approach to change
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90. Reflection (1)
understanding
agreement
respect
transparency
balance
collaboration
customer focus
flow
leadership
Which 3 values resonate most strongly?
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91. Reflection (2)
A1
The improvement agenda
A2
The service transformation agenda
A3
The organizational change agenda
Which agenda will engage? Which will get the job done?
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92. References
[1] Kanban, Anderson http://www.amazon.com/Kanban-Successful-Evolutionary-TechnologyBusiness/dp/0984521402/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1364387272&sr=1-1
[2] http://positiveincline.com/index.php/2013/01/introducing-kanban-through-its-values/
[3] http://positiveincline.com/index.php/2013/01/kanban-values-understanding-and-purpose/
[4] Thinking in Systems: A Primer, Meadows http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Systems-Donella-HMeadows/dp/1603580557/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1364387371&sr=1-1
[5] Out of the Crisis, Deming http://www.amazon.com/Out-Crisis-W-EdwardsDeming/dp/0262541157/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1364387455&sr=1-1
[6] Good to Great, Collins http://www.amazon.com/Good-Great-Companies-LeapOthers/dp/0066620996/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1364387591&sr=1-1
[7] The Culture Game: Tools for the Agile Manager, Mezick http://www.amazon.com/Culture-GameTools-Agile-Manager/dp/0984875301/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1364387632&sr=1-1
[8] Steven J. Spear, The High Velocity Edge
[9] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%27s_law
[10] Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization, Logan
http://www.amazon.com/Tribal-Leadership-Leveraging-ThrivingOrganization/dp/0061251321/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1364387685&sr=1-1
[11] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_organization
[12] The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization, Senge
http://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Discipline-Practice-LearningOrganization/dp/0385517254/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1364387790&sr=1-1
[13] Small acts of leadership positiveincline.com/index.php/2013/06/small-acts-of-leadership/
[14] Yes we Kanban http://www.agilemanagement.net.php5-19.dfw1-2.websitetestlink.com/resources
[15] Stand up meeting, thinking tool, leadership routine
http://positiveincline.com/index.php/2013/09/stand-up-meeting-thinking-tool-leadership-routine/
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93. Thank you
Special thanks to:
Jabe Bloom, Patrick Steyaert, Matthias Jouan, David J Anderson, Dave White,
Arne Roock, Bernd Schiffer, Dimitar Bakardzhiev, Greg Brougham,
Hermanni Hyytiälä, Janice Linden-Reed, Chris Chan, Zsolt Fabok, Corinna
Baldauf, Andy Carmichael, Alex Fedtke, Tom Cagley, Rob Ferguson, Yuval Yeret,
Joseph Hurtado, John Miller, Kurt Häusler, Matthias Bohlen, Rodolfo Moeller,
Karl Scotland, Mattias Skarin, Alan Shalloway, Pierre Nies, Fred Engel,
David Shrimpton, Björn Tikkanen, Simon Thomas, Simon Marcus, Marco Melas,
Jon Terry, Maria Alfredéen, Torbjörn Gyllebring, Shridhar Lolla, Jim Sutton,
Stephen Parry, Klaus Leopold, Sigi Kaltenecker, Gaetano Mazzanti
Photos:
Slide14: David J. Anderson & Associates Inc
Slide 34: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lennon-McCartney.JPG
Slide 35: http://www.nobelweekdialogue.org/?attachment_id=364
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And that protective outer layer – DISCIPLINE – working agreements and leadership disciplinesImagine a bubble - your span of control plus those of influence and authority immediately around it – managers and customers, key people upstream and downstream.Now imagine a shared commitment to conduct change with understanding, agreement and respect. That’s all change, regardless of whether it originated inside or outside your bubble.inside that bubble, what could then flourish? Outside, what have to change?I’ll leave that hanging for now; it’s time to dive in and see how it really works
And that protective outer layer – DISCIPLINE – working agreements and leadership disciplinesImagine a bubble - your span of control plus those of influence and authority immediately around it – managers and customers, key people upstream and downstream.Now imagine a shared commitment to conduct change with understanding, agreement and respect. That’s all change, regardless of whether it originated inside or outside your bubble.inside that bubble, what could then flourish? Outside, what have to change?I’ll leave that hanging for now; it’s time to dive in and see how it really works
And that protective outer layer – DISCIPLINE – working agreements and leadership disciplinesImagine a bubble - your span of control plus those of influence and authority immediately around it – managers and customers, key people upstream and downstream.Now imagine a shared commitment to conduct change with understanding, agreement and respect. That’s all change, regardless of whether it originated inside or outside your bubble.inside that bubble, what could then flourish? Outside, what have to change?I’ll leave that hanging for now; it’s time to dive in and see how it really works
And that protective outer layer – DISCIPLINE – working agreements and leadership disciplinesImagine a bubble - your span of control plus those of influence and authority immediately around it – managers and customers, key people upstream and downstream.Now imagine a shared commitment to conduct change with understanding, agreement and respect. That’s all change, regardless of whether it originated inside or outside your bubble.inside that bubble, what could then flourish? Outside, what have to change?I’ll leave that hanging for now; it’s time to dive in and see how it really works
the work we have, how much of each type, where it is in the system, who’s associated with it, what’s blocked and so on.
the work we have, how much of each type, where it is in the system, who’s associated with it, what’s blocked and so on.
As we self organise, our perspective may change. We realise that there are better ways to look at the work. No problem!Rub a line out, draw another one in, move a few stickies. Alternatively, a few clicks of the mouse if we’re using an electronic tool.For next to no cost, we can effect change on the system, yielding perhaps significant change in how it performs.This is a very high leverage activity.Our changes remain in place for as long as we need it – we’ve captured some learning.
The visual language of tokens, colours, swimlanes and so on is rich, but not always rich enough. Some aspects of system design are better expressed in words.You may be familiar with the concept of a “definition of done”. Column-level Definitions of done and definitions of ready express what qualities we expect of work items as they transition between states. That’s a good way to agree expectations without going to the level of exactly specifying how things must be done and in what order. If you’re a programmer, this is declarative.
Team policySends a message that we’re serious about finishingAlso that we’re not keen on sucking risk into the system in an untransparent way – let’s have risks & priorities managed on the business side where that’s appropriate
The board is a point-in-timevisualisation. When we take a time-based view, we can verify that our changes are having the effect we desire.In this picture – a CFD – we see the ballooning of work followed by step changes, the big batch transfers, then something else - flow
Big project - $1m of WIP on the board
And that protective outer layer – DISCIPLINE – working agreements and leadership disciplinesImagine a bubble - your span of control plus those of influence and authority immediately around it – managers and customers, key people upstream and downstream.Now imagine a shared commitment to conduct change with understanding, agreement and respect. That’s all change, regardless of whether it originated inside or outside your bubble.inside that bubble, what could then flourish? Outside, what have to change?I’ll leave that hanging for now; it’s time to dive in and see how it really works
And that protective outer layer – DISCIPLINE – working agreements and leadership disciplinesImagine a bubble - your span of control plus those of influence and authority immediately around it – managers and customers, key people upstream and downstream.Now imagine a shared commitment to conduct change with understanding, agreement and respect. That’s all change, regardless of whether it originated inside or outside your bubble.inside that bubble, what could then flourish? Outside, what have to change?I’ll leave that hanging for now; it’s time to dive in and see how it really works
And that protective outer layer – DISCIPLINE – working agreements and leadership disciplinesImagine a bubble - your span of control plus those of influence and authority immediately around it – managers and customers, key people upstream and downstream.Now imagine a shared commitment to conduct change with understanding, agreement and respect. That’s all change, regardless of whether it originated inside or outside your bubble.inside that bubble, what could then flourish? Outside, what have to change?I’ll leave that hanging for now; it’s time to dive in and see how it really works
And that protective outer layer – DISCIPLINE – working agreements and leadership disciplinesImagine a bubble - your span of control plus those of influence and authority immediately around it – managers and customers, key people upstream and downstream.Now imagine a shared commitment to conduct change with understanding, agreement and respect. That’s all change, regardless of whether it originated inside or outside your bubble.inside that bubble, what could then flourish? Outside, what have to change?I’ll leave that hanging for now; it’s time to dive in and see how it really works
And that protective outer layer – DISCIPLINE – working agreements and leadership disciplinesImagine a bubble - your span of control plus those of influence and authority immediately around it – managers and customers, key people upstream and downstream.Now imagine a shared commitment to conduct change with understanding, agreement and respect. That’s all change, regardless of whether it originated inside or outside your bubble.inside that bubble, what could then flourish? Outside, what have to change?I’ll leave that hanging for now; it’s time to dive in and see how it really works
And that protective outer layer – DISCIPLINE – working agreements and leadership disciplinesImagine a bubble - your span of control plus those of influence and authority immediately around it – managers and customers, key people upstream and downstream.Now imagine a shared commitment to conduct change with understanding, agreement and respect. That’s all change, regardless of whether it originated inside or outside your bubble.inside that bubble, what could then flourish? Outside, what have to change?I’ll leave that hanging for now; it’s time to dive in and see how it really works
And that protective outer layer – DISCIPLINE – working agreements and leadership disciplinesImagine a bubble - your span of control plus those of influence and authority immediately around it – managers and customers, key people upstream and downstream.Now imagine a shared commitment to conduct change with understanding, agreement and respect. That’s all change, regardless of whether it originated inside or outside your bubble.inside that bubble, what could then flourish? Outside, what have to change?I’ll leave that hanging for now; it’s time to dive in and see how it really works
task focus, role focus, team focus, project focus, product focus, company focus, technology focus - the list goes onSo many ways to lose sight of what we're in business for!
Controversial? Perhaps with some, but not with meIn my mind, Leadership and change are very hard to separate.Change without leadership seems undeliberate, accidental evenAnd leadership without change is what, exactly?We’ll see that talking about leadership lets us talk about the strength and longevity of the organisation in a humane, people-centric way.
There’s nothing accidental about this scenario – it’s very deliberate, the result of years of patient work.Let’s see how it works
Controversial? Perhaps with some, but not with meIn my mind, Leadership and change are very hard to separate.Change without leadership seems undeliberate, accidental evenAnd leadership without change is what, exactly?
And that protective outer layer – DISCIPLINE – working agreements and leadership disciplinesImagine a bubble - your span of control plus those of influence and authority immediately around it – managers and customers, key people upstream and downstream.Now imagine a shared commitment to conduct change with understanding, agreement and respect. That’s all change, regardless of whether it originated inside or outside your bubble.inside that bubble, what could then flourish? Outside, what have to change?I’ll leave that hanging for now; it’s time to dive in and see how it really works
And that protective outer layer – DISCIPLINE – working agreements and leadership disciplinesImagine a bubble - your span of control plus those of influence and authority immediately around it – managers and customers, key people upstream and downstream.Now imagine a shared commitment to conduct change with understanding, agreement and respect. That’s all change, regardless of whether it originated inside or outside your bubble.inside that bubble, what could then flourish? Outside, what have to change?I’ll leave that hanging for now; it’s time to dive in and see how it really works
And that protective outer layer – DISCIPLINE – working agreements and leadership disciplinesImagine a bubble - your span of control plus those of influence and authority immediately around it – managers and customers, key people upstream and downstream.Now imagine a shared commitment to conduct change with understanding, agreement and respect. That’s all change, regardless of whether it originated inside or outside your bubble.inside that bubble, what could then flourish? Outside, what have to change?I’ll leave that hanging for now; it’s time to dive in and see how it really works
And that protective outer layer – DISCIPLINE – working agreements and leadership disciplinesImagine a bubble - your span of control plus those of influence and authority immediately around it – managers and customers, key people upstream and downstream.Now imagine a shared commitment to conduct change with understanding, agreement and respect. That’s all change, regardless of whether it originated inside or outside your bubble.inside that bubble, what could then flourish? Outside, what have to change?I’ll leave that hanging for now; it’s time to dive in and see how it really works
And that protective outer layer – DISCIPLINE – working agreements and leadership disciplinesImagine a bubble - your span of control plus those of influence and authority immediately around it – managers and customers, key people upstream and downstream.Now imagine a shared commitment to conduct change with understanding, agreement and respect. That’s all change, regardless of whether it originated inside or outside your bubble.inside that bubble, what could then flourish? Outside, what have to change?I’ll leave that hanging for now; it’s time to dive in and see how it really works
Kanban is the “start with what you do now” method
understanding is what roots the Kanban method in systems thinking
understanding is what roots the Kanban method in systems thinking
We’ll focus on the agreement part; we’ll see that we get the evolutionary part almost for free
At one level this is just smart change management“Be like water”
But there’s a much deeper level. Most of here are highly motivated by the idea that we can make things better for people.Kanban needs to be a respectful method, both by intent and in its implementation. In common with most methods, Kanban is not short of ambition. Spend a moment reading these quotes from a speech given by David at the launch of the LSSC (the forerunner to the LSS).Distinct from many methods, Kanban is designed to be humane and respectful in its implementation too. Kanban may deliver quick results (and often it does) but it is not shock therapy.
transparency: people start to see what’s going on, they’re given some basic structure around which self-organisation can safely happenbalance: we start to reduce the overburdening of peoplecollaboration: we encourage people into higher quality interactions, to collaborate on solving together the problems people face togethercustomer focus: accidentally or by deliberate design, we start to think in terms of anticipating the needs of real peopleflow: we start to see smoothness, predictability and we learn to value itleadership: creating opportunities for people, developing the organisation through its peopleunderstanding, agreement, respect: beginning to change the rules for change
And that protective outer layer – DISCIPLINE – working agreements and leadership disciplinesImagine a bubble - your span of control plus those of influence and authority immediately around it – managers and customers, key people upstream and downstream.Now imagine a shared commitment to conduct change with understanding, agreement and respect. That’s all change, regardless of whether it originated inside or outside your bubble.inside that bubble, what could then flourish? Outside, what have to change?I’ll leave that hanging for now; it’s time to dive in and see how it really works
And that protective outer layer – DISCIPLINE – working agreements and leadership disciplinesImagine a bubble - your span of control plus those of influence and authority immediately around it – managers and customers, key people upstream and downstream.Now imagine a shared commitment to conduct change with understanding, agreement and respect. That’s all change, regardless of whether it originated inside or outside your bubble.inside that bubble, what could then flourish? Outside, what have to change?I’ll leave that hanging for now; it’s time to dive in and see how it really works
You can read my references and my thank you’s to my valued collaborators after I’ve shared the slidesBut I leave you with some homework
You can read my references and my thank you’s to my valued collaborators after I’ve shared the slidesBut I leave you with some homework