Slides from presentation for Lean/Kanban France (#LKFr12) October 2012. Photos property DePaul University. You may use this presentation, just please ask. :)

1. Enter Kanban:
21st Century Leadership
for 21st Century Academia
#EnterKanban
Derek W. Wade Megan Stemm-Wade
@derekwwade @mstemmdepaul
dwade@kumido.com mstemm@depaul.edu
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3. Need
• collaboration with minimal process
Goals (via case study)
• visualization empowers self-leadership
• it’s easy to start
Learning Objectives
• examples of visualization = empowerment
• one team’s experience, from bad to better
• 3 recommendations for you
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4. My Worst Week
status
meetings!
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5. From the
classroom...
...to
online.
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6. 80-90
course
every s
10 wee
Faculty ks
NEW COURSES
I.D. Team
REVISIONS
Faculty
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7. Effects
“Should I fix this or are you?”
– teammate
“I thought we fixed this issue!”
– professor
“This link doesn’t work, is our assignment
due today or tomorrow?”
– student
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8. Problem Brainstormed “Remedy”
Ineffective meetings Meeting agendas
Longer meetings!
Confusion about workloads/ Bring to the Director
responsibilities More meetings!
Rework Longer lead time requirements
(time spent double-checking) Not possible!
Errors in final product “Shift the burden” to final position
Helplessness - not our problem!
“The beatings will continue
until morale improves!”
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9. DETERMINISTIC
“...causally determined by preceding events...”
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10. Deterministic Improvement
Current Desired
Remedy
State State
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11. No Heat ? Comfy
Home
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12. 12
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13. Replace Comfy
No Heat
Furnace Home
No
Furnace
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14. Keeping the Home Comfortable
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15. Temperature
Thermostat Heat
difference Output
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16. Empirical Work
Inspect & Evaluate
Current
Action Effects
State
Empirical = based on direct observation (reality)
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17. Innovation
GamesTM
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18. Innovation
GamesTM
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19. Recommendations
1. Start with the pain (reality)
2. ...
3. ...
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20. Enter Kanban!
Ready Doing Waiting Done
+
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21. Maintenance
“Thermometer”
HIGH LOAD
Name 1
Name 2
Name 3
Name 4
Name 5
LOW LOAD
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22. “You have a lot
going on...
...maybe I can
take that this
week.”
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23. Problem Kanban+CI Effects
Ineffective meetings Reduced # of meetings,
each very focused
Confusion about Instant workload
workloads/responsibilities Visualization re-distribution
+
Standup
Rework +
(double-checking) CI
?
Errors in final product
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24. Recommendations
1. Start with the pain (reality)
2. Make it visible
3. ...
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26. Empirical Improvement
Inspect & Evaluate
Current
Experiment Effects
State
It’s not Continuous Improvement if you only do it once!
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27. Addition of “Parking Lot”
for future projects
Horizontal lanes for
“Team Projects” or “Fires”
Maintenance “Thermometer” removed
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28. Problem Kanban+CI Effects
Ineffective meetings Reduced # of meetings,
each very focused
Confusion about Instant workload
workloads/responsibilities Visualization re-distribution
+
Standup
Rework +
(double-checking) CI
More autonomy to
build quality in
Errors in final product (with student workers)
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29. “Hard” Issues
• student workers =
on the team?
• no common area
for board
• many visible tasks,
few common goals
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30. Recommendations
1. Start with the pain (reality)
2. Make it visible
3. Regularly experiment & evaluate
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31. Credits
Photos Works
Kanban boards Hohmann, L. (2007). Innovation games:
M. Stemm-Wade, creating breakthrough products through
DePaul University collaborative play. Upper Saddle River,
NJ: Addison-Wesley
Classroom Ogunnaike, B., Ray, W. H. (1992). Process
dynamics, modeling, and control. Oxford
DePaul University
University Press
www.depaul.edu
Stemm-Wade, M. (2011) [blog] Enter
Sailboat kanban: SNL ID team gets organized.
boatsnyyacht.net Retrieved from http://www.iddblog.org/?
p=1150
Online course
Desire2Learn,
www.desire2learn.com
Special thanks to the DePaul SNL ID team
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32. Enter Kanban:
21st Century Leadership
for 21st Century Academia
Thank You & Merci!
Derek W. Wade Megan Stemm-Wade
@derekwwade @mstemmdepaul
dwade@kumido.com mstemm@depaul.edu
gplus.to/derekwwade
www.derekwwade.net
www.kumido.com
How will you apply what you have learned?
#EnterKanban
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