Leaning - Energized Work Presentation

Presented by Simon Baker, Energized Work 28 October 2010

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Delight customers


Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your product, and that bring friends with them.

– Deming

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Follow the money


The goal of every company is to make money.

– Goldratt

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Most products fail because they don’t have enough customers


The greatest risks are delivering the wrong thing, not validating customers early and an unproven business model.

Organizations are over-organized


Specialization and centralization comes at the cost of complexity in the form of unnecessary dependencies that introduce waste and bottlenecks.

Conventional product development is like betting on a hole-in-one


Every idea and decision is an hypothesis until it’s validated by paying customers. It’s a big risk waiting for a big-bang release to test the market exists and the product fits, and to prove that sales can be repeated.

Improve the odds of success with continuous discovery, validation and iteration


Implant with rapid and responsive iterative delivery capability into day-to-day business operations to continually test business assumptions and feature ideas with customers using working software.


Small continuous improvements only go so far

Way of working E

ffect

iven

ess A transformative change

can remove endemic waste and provide a better place to start from.

But it’s got to be successful.

Organize around products and collapse the value stream to remove endemic waste


No silos. No projects. Everyone sits together, including business people, and work full-time on the product. Dependencies are removed. Environments are owned. It’s a small business with autonomy to pursue its goals.


Seize a crisis or create one

Understand the system. Set up quickly. Do something that can’t be ignored. Forget grand strategy for the moment. Produce immediate results.

– Lean Thinking. Womack and Jones


Run small experiments as learning cycles

MAKE

LEARN TEST

By applying Deming’s cycle repeatedly, at different levels, to tackle uncertainty. Product development becomes a test-driven delivery system that tells us we’re building the right thing and we’re building the thing right.


– John Seddon

Measures should reflect the true purpose of the people doing the work.

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Don’t chase targets. Use measurements to pursue improvement


Fund the business plan incrementally

CHARTER

INVEST

MEASURE

EXECUTE

Base funding on product performance in the market.

Is it satisfying customers? Is it profitable?

3 Months


Success Criteria Testable expectations in terms of customer satisfaction, profit, environmental performance and other measures Measurements updated as progress is made

Current Situation Background and context Quantified data Qualitative assessment Previous measurements

Constraints Budget

Why Validated data from previous experiments Root-cause analysis

Assumptions To be validated

Risks

Shared Vision

Visualize the future in a charter


Manage by cash flow

Visualize the cash position using cash basis accounting in a simple profit-and-loss statement.


To drive profit, increase revenue and remove the causes of costs


Inventory can’t generate revenue

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Inventory costs money to make, costs even more money to maintain the code, and the cost of delayed release is lost earnings.


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Throughput [ Per Week ]

Release as often as customers will allow to get their feedback.


Minimize failure demand

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Repaid Debt Fixed Defects Debt Defects

Fix defects immediately. Manage debt carefully and continuously.


INQUIRY

Design Prototype

Learn

IMMERSION

OPTION Hypothesis

MANAGE

Make Test

Learn

DELIVERY Validation

Customers, stakeholders, users Business model

Discovery-driven delivery


Vertically slicing stories creates opportunities for feedback and collaboration

When sitting together face-to-face time is easy and cheap. Everything is driven by conversations. Lot’s of conversations.


Small is beautiful. Big is noisy

Scaling a small system won’t produce bigger results. It becomes a different system and won’t behave in the same ways.

A big system loses purpose and becomes too busy supporting itself.


Thank you. Twitter: @energizr Skype: simon.energizr Email: [email protected] Blog: blog.energizedwork.com


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