Talk at the Southern Fried Agile conference, July 2010 in Charlotte, NC
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• Agile Coach & Trainer• 20+ years in senior level consulting to well-known firms in New York, London and
Charlotte• Focus on delivery of Business Value; interest in Lean • CST, CSP, CSM; MBA• Was Senior Manager in Big 6 consulting• Head of Kitty Hawk Consulting, Inc. since 1991• Head of LeanAgileTraining.com• Started trying to do [Agile] before reading The Mythical Man-Month
Means: Lean production term which in Japanese means radical overhaul of an activity to eliminate waste and create greater value. Also called breakthrough kaizen.
Watanabe (then President of Toyota): ”There’s no genius in our company. We just do whatever we believe is right, trying every day to improve every little bit and piece. But when 70 years of very small improvements accumulate, they become a revolution.”
Dan Markovitz: “Kaizen is boring and laborious. Kaikaku is sexy and exciting. Kaizen is your spouse of 15 years. Kaikaku is the smoking hot blonde on the barstool next to you.”
Ohno created the use of kanban as a means to attaining minimal inventory, and better flow.Probably idea borrowed from Pigglywiggly.Implements a pull system.
Scrum board of tasks and stories is simple version of kanban.
Pull systemValue stream mapOptimize cycle timeTPS; The Toyota Way“relentless pursuit of perfection”one-piece flowvisual managementzero inventorychallenge everythingrespect for peoplemake the process visiblestop the line cultureSensei
“The essence of [the Toyota system] is that each individual employee is given the opportunity to find problems in his own way of working, to solve them and to make improvements.”
Toyota Way: Learn by DoingFujio Cho, Board Chairman
• We place the highest value on actual implementation and taking action. Agile Principle #1
• There are many things one doesn’t understand, and therefore we ask them why don’t you just go ahead and take action; try to do something? Agile Principle #3, #11
• You realize how little you know and you face your own failures and redo it again and at the second trial you realize another mistake … so you can redo it once again. Agile Principle #11, #12
• So by constant improvement … one can rise to the higher level of practice and knowledge. Agile Principle #3
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." Albert Einstein 30
Lean thinkers reason this way:“By greatly reducing the cycle time from customer identification of need until the need is satisfied (and we get the cash), we learn to give the customer better, more, faster, and cheaper.”
Most of the delay is in wait time.
This remains a paradox to many.We optimize cycle time, not anything else.