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.
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Fitness for Purpose - The Kanban way for focused Agility
1. 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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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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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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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 Delivery
Service Implementation
Service Definition
Commitment Point 1
Commitment Point 2
•Pool of Ideas
•Business Risk
•Options
•Lead Time
•Quality
•Improvement
•Feedback
•Validation
•Value
I
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Flow
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
Service
Delivery
Review
StandupMeeting
daily
weekly
monthly
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Evolutionary Path
Evolving
Process
Rollforward
Rollback
Initial
Process
Future process is emergent
Evaluate
Fitness
Evaluate
Fitness
Evaluate
Fitness
Evaluate
Fitness
Evaluate
Fitness
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•Start where you are
•Initially respect existing job titles, roles & processes
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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