Session Title : Lean Flow Workshop Session Overview: Flow is an operational state of organisation, where the team performs, work with greater focus, full engagement and enjoyment, and ensuring higher quality deliverables. As benefits of it, you gain a Lean Organisation with Better visibility of system Simplified management of progress Improved feedback mechanism Flow Game is a very simple adoption of Lean ideas to exhibit Flow in a system. This game is an adaption of our earlier version of Kanban Post Card game. The session starts with an overview of Flow concepts followed by ideate, design and construction activity to build a Flow-based system through a few minutes of play, and the later part is about exhibiting the key constructs of a Flow system and achieving a Lean Organisation with Flow. (This session may include Postcard metaphor for activity).

1. Lean,
Product,
Flow..
Priyank Pathak
#LKIN18

2. Products Services

3. Table discussion
What should we change
in our process ?
….
....
....

4. One step back
Why do we want to
change the process ?
….
....
....

5. Increase Profits.
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6. Increase Profits.
Economic Thinking.

7. We can not just change
one thing,
without understanding
the correlation and
impact mapping …

8. And keep focus only on
Proxy Objectives…
And/or optimzing those
independently

9. Otherwise, we exhibit a
of non-value adding
optimisation.

10. Cycle Time
Developm
ent
Expense
Production
Cost
Reference : The Principles of Lean Product Development Flow book by Don Reinertsen
Product
Value
Motivatio
n
Risk

11. Activity
Pre-Lean Age
Lean Age
2nd Generation Lean Age

12. Pre-Lean Age :
Your table/team is into business of making cards
using paper, sketch pens, glue, post-it and the
supplies provided on table.
Let’s make post-cards.
(15 min Time box)

13. Lean is born…
Information and Actual work are not same in our domain vs.
in manufacturing.
Inventory is invisible in our domain.
This demands a visual radiator for information tracking.
And implementing lean concepts into our system …

14. Lean Age :
Let’s introduce the Lean Concepts to our system
• Visual Radiator
• WIP Constraints
• Cycle Time
(10 min Time Box)
And Let’s make post-cards again.
(15 min Time Box)

15. 2nd Generation Lean PDF
arrived…
Our task are not repetitive like in other domains.
This demands validating our thought process.
And implementing 2nd generation lean concepts into
our lean system …

16. 2nd Generation Lean Age :
Lets introduce the Economical Concepts to our
system
• Correlation of Variables/Objectives
• Economical Prioritization/CoD/net profit
• Exploiting Variability for adding value / innovation
(10 min Time Box)
And Lets make post-cards.

17. Thank you
Priyank Pathak
priyank@innovationroots.com