is your agile lean enough
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Agile
Is Your Agile Lean Enough?
George Tsai CSM, CSPO, CSP, SPC4 [email protected]
Agile-DevOps: DFW Chapter Feb 02, 2017
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Agile
Feel Think Be
Agile
Differently
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Scrum Team
SAFe Team of Teams
Mkt DEV QA RM
My Journey with Agile Glass Ceiling within IT Organization
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Scrum is Necessary but Not Sufficient
Local Optimization – Silos, Silos everywhere!
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LEAN is the Missing Link
• Global Optimization with End-to-End Systems Thinking
Cost of Delay Agile typically only optimizes our systems for Product Development
http://blackswanfarming.com/cost-of-delay/
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LEAN is the Missing Link
• Common Language: methodology agnostic (complement, not replacing existing methodologies). No more us vs. them – Agile is for IT, not us!
Comparing to Agile, it is easier for Lean to unify the disparate organizations because it is easier for everyone to understand customer value and eliminating waste!
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Scrum is Necessary but Not Sufficient
• Are we drown in the implementation mode? • What are the problems Agile trying to solve?
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Two Critical Questions
What is the True North of your Agile initiative?
How do you measure your Agile success?
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LEAN is the Missing Link
• Focus on the True North: find the Voice of Customer (VoC), deliver Customer Value with Highest Quality, Lowest Cost, Shortest Lead Time, and High Moral – looking from outside in to see how to delivery value to customers.
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Uh...
1. Lean is for Manufacturing only 2. People may not listen to Lean either
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1986 HBR The new new product development game by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka. Grandfather of Scrum
Ken Schwaber & Jeff Sutherland started Scrum, originally inspired by the idea of in the article by Ikujiro. Father of Scrum
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Lean is Universal Manufacturing SW Development
GE adapts Lean Startup (called FastWorks) to reduce cost and speed up product development. So far GE Appliance has achieved: half the program cost, twice the program speed. https://hbr.org/2014/04/how-ge-applies-lean-startup-practices
2008 Eric Ries’ Lean Startup claims that startups can shorten their product development cycles by combining of business- hypothesis-driven experimentation, iterative product releases, and validated learning.
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Psychology of Judgment & Decision Making THINKING, FAST AND SLOW
Daniel Kahneman, 2002 Nobel Prize winner in Economic. For quick review on THINK, FAST AND SLOW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqXVAo7dVRU
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System 1 Implementation Mode
System 2 Improvement Mode
Path is perceived clear, predicable
Path is perceived uncertain, dynamic
Jump to Solution quickly Experiment as quickly as possible
Command style – more telling Coaching style – more asking Experiences, bias, opinions –
emotional (past performance) Facts, data, measurements –
scientific (show me) Comfort zone Learning zone
React, Protect (e.g. SOP) Reflect, Explore (e.g. PDCA)
Pick the Right Mode for the Right Task
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Can Agile Do This? Discussion: The IT department delivers a feature to customer in total of 46 weeks. The feature is estimated by marketing department to generate $200,000 revenue a week for the company. The CEO, Mark, calculated the $8 million of unrealized revenue during the development process.
A similar Phase II project is coming. Mark asks your boss, VP of Development, to come up with a plan to cut down 11 weeks ( ~1/4, about $2 million revenue) of the lead time with existing resources and without sacrificing the quality.
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Can Agile Do This?
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Toyota Production System - TPS
Success of Toyota has rarely been replicated. Why?
Visible
Less Visible
Lean Tools and techniques to
improve quality, cost, and delivery
A systematic, scientific way of
thinking and acting to meet the next
challenge
Managers as the teachers of the way
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Sustain LEAN Toyota Kata
Mike Rother – answer the two questions:
1. What are the unseen managerial routines and thinking that lie behind Toyota’s success with continuous improvement and adaptation?
2. How can other companies develop similar
routines and thinking in their organizations?
Put the continuous in continuous improvement
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Improvement/Coaching Kata Systematic & Scientific routine of meeting challenges
along an uncertain path
Note: you may find Kata familiar with some similar Scrum practices: daily meeting, time-boxed, Iterative development, and visual display. Simple model, yet hard to master.
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Experiment with PDCA Cycle As Quickly, Cheaply, and Safely as possible
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Vision Next
Target Condition
Current Condition Obstacles Challenge
Kata – Connecting Strategy & Execution
Technical Execution (Decentralized – How)
Business Strategy (Centralized – What)
Leaders establish the organization's strategic concept (the “rallying point” or overall direction)
Managers develop people by coaching application practice of the Improvement Kata in the direction of the challenge
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Kata Complements Agile
• Managers as Coaches: leaders set the vision, middle managers execute it – line managers as Coaches* to teach improvement kata pattern as part of daily work, not add-on. • Scientific Thinking Pattern: fact-based, innovative and adaptive thinking – hypothesis, discovery, experiment & learn through rapid, iterative PDCA cycles. *Leaders who have mastered four or more— especially the authoritative, democratic, affiliative, and coaching styles— have the best climate and business performance. Leadership That Gets Results by Daniel Goleman, HBR March-April 2000 https://nealandministries.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/goleman-leadership-that-gets-results.pdf
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Kata Complements Agile (cont.)
• Purpose Driven: Vision-Challenge-Target Condition
What we can do
What we need to do
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Kata Complements Agile (cont.)
• Eliminate waste the right way!
Shotgun Approach Action List Jump to Solution
Know where we are Know where we are going Experiment through it One obstacle at a time
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Kata Complements Agile (cont.)
• Deliberate Practice: (near) Daily Improvement Kata/Coaching Kata, where habits are formed, Culture created.
• Time Tested and Proven: no fab or flavor of the month.
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Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.
All models are wrong, but some are useful. George E.P. Box
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Summary
No matter where you are in your Agile journey, Lean can complement Agile: • Apply Systems Thinking (end-to-end) • Deliver Customer Value (outside in) • Communicate more effectively in Lean (common language) Go deeper to create culture of Continuous Improvement, Adaptation, and Innovation, Try
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References
• Cost of Delay: What is Cost of Delay? Why is it the “one thing” to quantify? How can I get started with Cost of Delay? How do I quantify the Cost of Delay for my initiative/project or feature? (http://blackswanfarming.com/cost-of-delay/ )
• The New New Product Development Game by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka (https://hbr.org/1986/01/the-new-new-product-development-game)
• How GE Applies Lean Startup Practices by Brad Power, HBR (https://hbr.org/2014/04/how-ge-applies-lean-startup-practices)
• Daniel Kahneman, 2002 Nobel Prize winner in Economic. For quick review on THINK, FAST and SLOW: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqXVAo7dVRU)
• Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness ande Superior Results by Mile Rother: https://www.amazon.com/Toyota-Kata-Managing-Improvement-Adaptiveness/dp/0071635238/
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Q&A
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George Tsai
CSM, CSPO, CSP, SPC4
Certified Lean Management Professional ICP-ACC, Toyota Kata
Thanks!
For more information about Agile beyond Scrum teams with SAFe, Lean, and Kata,
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