Never Work Weekends Again! The Keys ... - Toyota Kata...

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Run the Experiment!

How safety, scientific thinking and Kata

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Grappling

The missing step in Kata!

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Understand the

Direction/Challenge





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JOY!


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Grasp the Current Condition

Interface Systems





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Target Condition

New work style





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My Click Moment





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Experiments

Interface Systems


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See teamwork Embrace Learning

Two heads


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hearts Two





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Four hands


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Rigor and

• Automated Unit Testing

• Living, breathing documentation

• Iterative and incremental

improvements

discipline matter





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What did we expect?

• Learn a new language

• Learn new techniques

• Everyone will pick up new knowledge


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What did we learn?

• High-energy, High-morale

• Excitement Engagement

• Productivity + Quality = Actual working code

• Improved communication

• Improved relationships

• Experimental mindset begins

• New way to build a team





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Grappling

Can you start over? Really?





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Grasp the Current Condition

It’s not just Interface Systems





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Current Condition

• We know how to run a team

• We need to know how to run a company

• It was easy to hire into this culture

• Organizations want benefits of change

– they don’t want to change to achieve them


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Next Target Condition

Menlo Innovations





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My Click Moment


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See teamwork Embrace Learning





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Indigenous Kata

“Run the Experiment”

becomes the norm


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Babies at work!





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Show & Tell





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The Power of Observation

• Anthropology

• Study people

• Observe them

In their native environment

• Look for the invisible

• Be the empath!


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Extreme

Interviewing





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What did we expect?

• Fewer emergencies

• Compelling workplace for employment

• Companies would easily grasp the value





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What did we learn?

• Emergencies disappeared

• Hiring, onboarding trivialized

• Team easily initiates experiments

• Software doesn’t need user manuals

• Users don’t have to feel stupid

• We can limit work to 40 hours

• We can have pride in what we do

• AND …


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There’s a Name for This

Lean, Kata





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Bigger Lessons

Scientific thinking is born out of

– Childlike curiosity

– Absence of fear

– Emphasis on kindergarten skills

– A willingness to say “I don’t know”


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Bigger Lessons

How to get there?

– Unlearning old habits

– Deliberate practice





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Room to Grow

• Toyota Kata gives you a method for learning

how to think like this

• We can improve our experimental methods at

Menlo by learning from Kata


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