Peter Green Agile, Lean and In Between

A B

Scrum vs.

Kanban

What are humans good for?

Industrial Work Knowledge Work Creative Work

2010 1960 1910

Ideas Technology Creative

The Creative Economy

Useful Today?

“I can say, without the slightest hesitation,

that the science of handling pig-iron is so great,

that the man who is physically capable to handle pig-iron,

and is sufficiently stupid to choose this for his occupation,

is rarely able to comprehend the science of handling pig-

iron.”

1950s – 1970s

W. E. Deming Taiichi Ohno

LEAN (Toyota Production

System)

Value from the

Customer’s

Perspective

Trust People

Continuous Improvement

Lean Concepts for the Creative Economy

1990s

Always

or

Often

20%

Sometimes, Rarely,

or Never 80%

Succeeded

29%

Failed

18%

Challenged

53%

CHAOS

Feature Use Project Resolution

Takeuhci & Nonaka Jeff Sutherland

Scrum

Small

Collaborative

Teams

Iterative

Development

Servant

Leadership

Scrum Concepts for the Creative Economy

Build The Right

Thing

2010

Steve Blank

Lean Startup

Eric Ries

Customer

Development

Iterative

Discovery

Validated

Learning

Lean Startup Concepts for the Creative Economy

These are not competing ideas!

Value from the

Customer’s

Perspective

Trust People

Continuous

Improvement

Small

Collaborative

Teams

Iterative

Development

Servant

Leadership

Customer

Development

Iterative

Discovery

Validated

Learning

Lean Startup

Agile

Lean

They are

Creative Economy

Enablers

1950s: Deming Cycle and Mindset

1970s: Lean Manufacturing

1990s: Agile Software Development

2010: Lean Startup

Future? Co

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New

Mindset

They have emerged in generational waves

Organizational Metaphors

Typical Corporation Today

Bureaucratic Organizations

Lean & Agile Organizations

Emergent Org Pattern

Emerging Concepts for the Creative Economy

Evolutionary

Purpose

Anti-Fragile

Org Structures Wholeness

Engaged

31%

Not Engaged

51%

Actively

Disengaged

18%

Customer

Development

Iterative

Discovery

Validated

Learning

Lean Startup

Small

Collaborative

Teams

Iterative

Development

Servant

Leadership

Agile Value from the

Customer’s

Perspective

Trust People

Continuous

Improvement

Lean

Organizational Agility

Evolutionary

Purpose

Self

Management Wholeness

Change the

world of work