Why Lean often Doesn't Work?

Leaning Our Sales Process

Lean is Lean – no matter what value stream you support. It is all about engaging everybody, every day in solving problems, adding more value, utilizing fewer resources, and ultimately achieving the organization’s purpose through helping customers achieve their own purpose. Whether it is on the factory floor or during a sales call, we all have to improve our work while changing the way we think and act.

Agile for sales teams from the trenches - Case studies and examples

This Roojoom will show how Sales team from deferent companies are using Agile and Lean methods and tools to manage their workflow, work load, and work prioritization.

Lean Infographics & Posters Collection

The Kanban System Game -Free Computer Simulation

You are the leader of a workcell that manufactures four products, call them A, B, C, and D.… Each morning, the shippers come to your stockpoint and remove what they require for the day’s shipment. .. An Excel spreadsheet simulates these activities. … 

The Kanban System Game is a simulation in Excel format. Macros provide a random daily demand, calculate inventory, and graph the results.

Lean tool - Looking at the "acctual" - The Spaghetti Diagram

A Spaghetti Diagram is a good way to visualize the flow in your process. The "plate" for your spaghetti is a top view of your process, whether a layout of the shop floor or your office. The "spaghetti" in a spaghetti diagram is the route taken by the part or operator through the process. Perhaps it's a product being made in a manufacturing cell or the flow of a document through the accounting department.

Achieving DevOps Culture is a Human & Management Problem

Everybody wants to join the DevOps movement. Everybody wants their developers and their operations people to work more closely together and take advantage of greater internal IT harmony with the result of higher agility and a faster time to market.  But how do you get there?Don’t think it’s just about tools, there’s a lot more into it then that.

‪Lean Bicycle Factory‬‏ Game - Get this factory in shape

You are the new manager of a factory that needs a new plan! Organize and shape up the factory to make it lean and mean, and above all, profitable!

Communicating the impact of time on value - calculating the cost of delay

“Lots of people (especially in the Lean and Agile community) talk a lot about Cost of Delay. We hear it mentioned all the time. But what we don’t see so much of is people actually quantifying it. Seems crazy, doesn’t it? The thing is, most organizations are blind to queues. We tend to focus predominantly on the efficiency of the parts of the process, not the speed of the end-to-end delivery of value. “ Here is affine view over the cost of delay and view exercises and techniques calculating it. 

FLOWer - Kanban Simulation game

Free book MVP - Successfully dealing with a rapidly changing environment

The Agile/Lean Coaching Booster  

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Change (and adapting to it) needs to become an ingrained habit.

The world around us is changing, and changing rapidly. It is becoming more and more complicated and the pace of technological change is one of the highest in recorded history.

Naturally, this new reality has new challenges. The goals that we want to achieve, for example, can be ever-changing – and therefore seem unachievable. 

To face these challenges, we need strategies that will help us regain a feeling of control over our goals, and help us reach them. We need ideas that will enable us grow and flourish, while at the same time help us face the uncertainties of change. 

The need to develop new strategies and ideas, and adapt to changes, is the root of many coaching processes. Why? Because as coaches, we recognize our coachees' universal need to deal with change. They need to understand what needs changing, and they need to learn how to both preserve their changed behavior so that it doesn't dissipate within a week or two, and how to easily change again, when needed. 

Based on Lean and Agile methods, our Agile\Lean Coaching Booster teaches people how to see change as a habit, and embrace change as a way of life. This book will help people leave their comfort zone, turning dealing with new changes into a habit, they help us change our old habits effectively and quickly, and showing us to do so again in the future.

Lean and Agile methods boost productivity and promote innovation and have been tested (and proven) in real-life situations. They have achieved greater results than any other method so far. The Booster also introduces a framework that helps you coach easier, working together with your coachees towards the goals they developed themselves. 

The Booster is written to be simple and intuitive, showing you how to simplify the complex environment of change in which we live. This makes it easier for us to set goals and establish a vision, and cope with changes. 

Enjoy :)

Agile portfolio managment

In today’s rapidly changing reality, companies face major challenges of keeping high level of collaboration, allow good project visibility and standardization, tracking of resource dependencies , constraints, project information , product roadmap and integrating change into the decision making and practice.  —failing might lead to millions of dollars in lost profits annually.  Here's where the agile portfolio management comes handy  It align strategy with execution, giving all stakeholders the contextual information they need - and remain focused on the top organizational priorities.

Agile and Lean UX Thinking

What is UX thinking? How does it relates to agile and lean and what are the changed practices from the traditional design process – an overview.

The F1 Agile/Lean mindset - "you just don't know how good you are until you get there." Jean Alesi

"Qualifying is less than 2 hours away and missing Q1 means that you’ll start at the back of the grid(or not at all), a disaster for the championship. The car has got to be repaired and back out no matter what. Your call to action.

It’s a familiar story in racing and to the casual TV viewer the repaired car normally appears clean and polished for qualifying as if nothing had happened. Easy eh? Wrong, it’s far from easy, and it’s situations such as this when the Formula 1 mindset is most evident. What goes on inside those pit garages during times like these is truly, truly impressive teamwork."

Agile in Embedded (or HD) systems - Reading List

COO, a support key to Agile Business -Streamline processes and reduce operational costs and risks

High operational costs and risks are recurring themes in any organization. Just as soon as you think you’ve got them under control, they have a tendency to wind back to chaos. COOs are focused on getting things done and are essential parts of the ability to deliver (budgeted) quality products. The COO main role is to own and ensure that the company´s day-to-day operations maintain super lean and agile, while supporting expansive growth with the right tools, people and procedures. let’s review how the industry view their role, their organizational relationships and more..

What is DevOps ?

"DevOps is the practice of operations and development engineers participating together in the entire service lifecycle, from design through the development process to production support. DevOps means a lot of different things to different people because the discussion around it covers a lot of ground".   ”DevOps is all about trying to avoid that epic failure and working smarter and more efficiently at the same time. It is a framework of ideas and principles designed to foster cooperation, learning and coordination between development and operational groups." 

Teaching lean with games

emonstrating Lean concepts is one of the main reasons to use a simulation as a teaching tool. During a Lean workshop, the key material can be taught, and then illustrated with a simulation or game.

Once participants have seen with their own eyes the difference between Push and Pull production, they'll never forget it. That massive stack of half assembled Lego is a sight that will burn itself into their brains.

An Exercise in Flow: Dice Game

Games are a great way to learn…especially as a team. 

Here is one powerful exercise that can be used to demonstrate several aspects of flow, value and teamwork: The Dice Game with few variations done by experienced professionals each gives a different angle, using a slight deferent scope or parts of the same game.

Enjoy .

Craig Larman’s Laws of Organizational Behavior

After decades of observation and organizational consulting, here are Larman's Laws (observations ) of Organizational Behavior. 

"If you want to really change culture, you have to start with changing structure, because culture does not really change otherwise. and that’s why deep systems of thought such as organizational learning are not very sticky or impactful by themselves, and why systems such as scrum (that have a strong focus on structural change at the start) tend to more quickly impact culture.