Lean at
Go To Statement
Considered Harmful
Edsger W. Dijkstra, March 1968
Management Doctrine
Considered Harmful
Wadim Grasza, June 2012
LEAN
EXPERIMENTATION
beats planning
avoiding huge
COMMITMENTS
commitments tend to
FAIL
failures produce
WASTE
why should we use
LEAN?
Lean solves
COMPLEX
PROBLEMS
LEANNR
INNOVATION
ideas are
FRAGILE
The world needs yet another
MySpace or Friendster!
Jon Olav’s solution
Frode’s solution
Bjarne’s solution
Yuwen’s solution
Wadim’s solution
TIME
Decide as late as possible
celebrate
FAILURE
deliver value as
FAST
as possible
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MAKES A BIG
DIFFERENCE
When did you ever kill a
product or feature?
OUTPUT > OUTCOME
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The build trap
Knowing
what to build
Building
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what to build
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EMPOWER
the team
that
STARTUP
feeling
Who
MANAGES
?
Frederick Winslow Taylor
1856 – 1915
optimize for
RESILIENCE
or die
Toyota:
EMPOWER
EVERYONE
to influence the mainstream
Saturate people with
HIGHER
PURPOSE
“It changed my life from being depressed, bored -
and like my son said, it changed my attitude. It
changed me all for the better.”
Rick Madrid, TPS alumni
Provide
AUTONOMY
by empowering to experiment
encourage
CONFLICT
a.k.a. the good stuff
idea
MERITOCRACY
PM:
Use the
POTENTIAL
of your intelligent employees
FOR YOUR
ADVANTAGE
WHAT
NOW?

LEAN at VG - May 2015