Patrick Steyart, Discovery Kanban - канбан открытий

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Discovery Kanban

Managing knowledge work as an enabler to innovation and changeLean Kanban Russia, Oct 2015

© Patrick Steyaert, 2015

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Is this Lean?


Episodicimprovem

ent

Normaldailywork

Normaldailywork

Normaldailywork

Normaldailywork

issue

change

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This is Lean!

Improvement as part of normal daily management


Work

Improvement

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Is this Lean?

Episodicinnovation

Work Work Work Work

idea

new

product/serv

ice/business

model


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This is Lean!


Innovation as part of the daily work

Work

Innovation

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A glue that does not stick


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The entrepreneur’s perspective - Path creation

Solution looking for a

problem

Looking for a fitting

problemProblem/

Solution fit

hunches options commitments

Path Dependence and CreationGarud, Raghu, Karnøe, Peter


De-framing Transformation Mobilization

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The organization’s perspective - Path dependence


The Hidden Dynamics of Path Dependence,

Georg Schreyogg & Jorg Sydow, Eds.

Emerging path

Varie

ty o

f opt

ions

Problems looking for a

solution


solutionProblem/

Solution fit

Pre-formation Formation Lock-inhunches options commitments

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Commitment Uncertainty


Contradiction

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Dynamic capabilities

Ensuring sufficient options

Fast learning and decision cycles

Attention to weak signals


Capabilities to overstep the contradiction between commitment and uncertainty

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Discovery Kanban


Learn

Grow

Deliver

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Deliver


Inbound – exploring options

Outbound – meeting commitmentsInventory

• Need• Opportunity

The end-to-end value stream • Output results

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Ensure sufficient options


Inbound Outbound

Need Concept

Continue

Abandon

Specification Elaborate Develop Verify

Ready to start

Upstream kanbanOptions

Downstream kanbanCommitments

Inbound

Outbound

Inventory

Minimum option limits to ensure that sufficient

options are available

>5 >8

Maximum WIP limits to ensure

flow of work

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1st order (work) flow

2nd order (information) flow

… there’s also feedback loops …


feedforward

feedback

work

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Learn


Decide

Observe

Check

PlanOrient

Do1st order (work) flow

Act

O-O-D-A: Decision making

PDCA: Validated learning

AdjustDecision and learning loops

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Fast decision and learning loops


Decision making Hypothesis Experimentation

Observe Orient

Continue

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Decide Act Plan Do Check Adjust

Observation kanbanO-O-D-A

Experiment kanbanPDCA

HypothesisWe believe that

<Building this feature>/<Implementing this technology>/<Adopting this practice>

Will achieve <this outcome>We will know we are successful when we see

<this signal or measurable result>

Experiments

Observations

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… there’s also weak signals …


Every movie the company makes starts out "ugly”; ill-defined ideas need protection the most, lest they die too young.- Pixar president Ed Catmull

We think we see ourselves and the world as they really are, but we're

actually missing a whole lot.- Christopher Chabris and Daniel

Simons

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Grow


Pay attention to weak signals

Solution looking for a

problem


problemProblem/

Solution fit

Problems looking for a

solution


solutionProblem/

Solution fit

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Attention to weak signals


Weak signals Seeking fit Fit/lock-in

Ugly babies

(Invisible) gorillastransformation

formation

Glue that does not

stick

Solutions looking

for a problem

Emergent

market

Glue on a board

Post-it™

Problems looking

for a solution

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Visualizing innovation



Ugly babies

(invisible) gorilla’s

(Trans-)formation

Observations Hypothesis Experiments

OutboundInbound

Learn

Grow

Deliver

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More than visualization


Fast decision cycles by limiting

decisions in progress

Fast learning cycles by limiting experiments in

progress

Ensuring sufficient options

by minimum limits

Smooth flow of work by limiting work in progress

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Summary


Dynamics capabilities

Contradiction

Discovery Kanban

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This is Lean!


Innovation as part of the daily work

Deliver value

Create new

value

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Reach [email protected]@PatrickSteyaertwww.discovery-kanban.com


Discovery canvas


Decision making Hypothesis ExperimentationObserve Orient

Continue

Abandon

Decide Act Plan Do Check Adjust


Ugly babies

(Invisible) gorillas(Trans-) formation

Inbound OutboundNeed Concept

Continue

Abandon

Specification Elaborate Develop Verify

Ready to start

Leadership & Management

Patrick Steyart, Discovery Kanban - канбан открытий