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Kanban Kata
by Hakan Forss
inspired by Toyota Kata

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Retrospectives
- once a sprint
- gather improvements/actions for the next sprint
- feedback is a bit delayed
- improvement work is not always intermingled
with ordinary work

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What is a kata?
From martial arts - it refers to the practice of doing a
set of predefined movements, repeatedly, in order
to create a muscle memory of the movements.

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Why a kata?
Ultimately to train us to do the right thing without
thinking - automatic, intuitive, second nature.

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What is Kanban Kata?
- a way to implement process improvements
- series of questions
- help improve in small steps in a continuous flow
- improvement work and ordinary work is
intermingled

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Kanban Kata is made up of...
- Daily Kata—A way to start including
improvement work in your daily meetings
- Improvement Kata—A formalized way to
improve your process
- Coaching Kata—Focuses on improving the
learners (the people in the team): a coaching
technique

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Daily Kata - questions to ask
- What are we trying to achieve?
- Where are we now?
- What obstacles are in our way now?
- What’s our next step and what do we expect?
- When can we see what we have learned from
taking that step?

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Improvement & Coaching Kata - questions to ask
- What is the target condition?
- What is the actual condition now?*
- What obstacles do you think are preventing you from
reaching the target condition? Which one are you
addressing now?
- What is your Next Step? (next PDCA/experiment) What
do you expect?
- When can we go and see what we have learned from
taking that step?

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Improvement & Coaching Kata

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Improvement & Coaching Kata

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Improvement & Coaching Kata

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Questions?

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Thank you

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