Workshop on the feedback loops and cadences in agile management at the team, service and organisational levels

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FOR AGILE MANAGEMENT

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I teach Kanban!

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Source: Kanban Masterclass (2013/4)
David J Anderson @djaa_dja
Cited in Carmichael & Wood 2015

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Source: Kanban Masterclass (2013/4)
David J Anderson @djaa_dja
Cited in Carmichael & Wood 2015

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Operations
Review
Service
Delivery
Review
Kanban
Meeting
Replenishment
Meeting
Delivery
Planning
Meeting
StrategyReview
Risk
Review

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1. flow
2. replenishment
3. customer deliveries
4. service improvement
5. risk management
6. operational coordination
7. strategy
The right thing,
done right…
then better
Anderson, David J., and Andy Carmichael. 2016.
Essential Kanban Condensed. LKU Press.
leankanban.com/guide

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CURRENT PROCESS (as actually practised)
The right
work…
done
right…
then
better!

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John Boyd

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“The brain is not only an ocean of
feedback loops but also a museum
of them.” Jurgen Beetz
It seems brains evolved primarily
to handle movement.
The sea squirt digests its own brain
once it has found a suitable spot
on the sea bed!
How is your organisation’s “brain”?
Does it need to move?!
With thanks to …
Image: https://alchetron.com/Ascidiacea

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Single Loop Learning
By Xjent03 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/
index.php?curid=5774791

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By Xjent03 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/
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Single Loop Learning Double Loop Learning

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Beinhocker, Eric D. 2007. The origin of wealth: evolution, complexity,
and the radical remaking of economics. London: Random House
Business Books.

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BMC Ecology, 2011. Flickr: Interactions of Malayatelura ponerophila with Leptogenys
distinguenda host workers (Ant Colony). https://commons.wikimedia.org
Co-evolution of individuals and of groups …

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Selfish and “groupist”
humans … are 90%
chimp and 10% bee!
Jonathan Haidt

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going over here!
You should be
going over here!
However elephants can be
influenced by other friendly
elephants! Jonathan Haidt

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Operations
Review
Service
Delivery
Review
Kanban
Meeting
Replenishment
Meeting
Delivery
Planning
Meeting
StrategyReview
Risk
Review
Do the
thing
better
Do the
right
thing
Do the
right
thing
Do the
thing
better Do the
thing
right
Do the thing
better

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The right thing,
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Slides: slideshare