A3 language as the glue for lean transformation

© 2011 Tieto Corporation

A3 language as the glue for the Lean transformation

Marcin Kokott

Agile/Lean Coach, Senior Consultant

Tieto,

[email protected]

http://twitter.com/MKokott


We all have powerfull tool • We have most powerfull tool that natural selection have ever

devise

• Implanting your thoughts from your mind to other… without surgery!

• Chimpanzees can’t improve... We can

• …take one idea and improve it

• Seeing something means I can steal it

• Languages to block the threath

• Social learning or „family groups”

• How many languages we have in our organizations

• Cultural, Management levels, groups…


Introduction • Former developer, team leader, project manager

• ...more than 9 years experience in IT

• Currently Agile/Lean Coach of business critical

cases in Tieto

• ...has been implementing Agile & Lean in various types of projects for last 3 years in context of distributed deliveries (whole Scandinavia, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, India and China)

• Core team for Lean@Tieto


Improvement: • NOW?

• REALITY?

• Anything for ME?

• NOT FIRE-FIGHTING?

• ACTIONS?

• HOW LONG?

• HOW MUCH?

• CHECK IT?

• WHEN it will be DONE?

• …and we don’t have a time - make it one page .



Simple • “If you can't explain it simply,

you don't understand it well enough”

A.Einstein

• „No pictures ??? It’s boring…”

• GO and SEE

• „SPACE-BOXED”


Common goal

• Different people, roles, expectations

• Show whole elephant

• Sell it – not push it!

• Money, Lead-time, Delivery speed, Challenging (Kaikaku)

• Transparent

”Most business processes are 90% waste

and 10% value-adding work” (Jeffrey K. Liker)


Everyone speaks

• Agreed by every stakeholder

• Continuous discussion and selling

• Understandable by everyone

• ROI, CSS, Lead-Time, Efficiency

• No YES-NO

• If you don’t agree fully – show different situation


Solid • Investment

• 30-60 days of implementation

• Measurable

• Clear ROI and fast

• Schedule, measure

• Cost of change

• Actions


Summary • “If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well

enough”

• A.Einstein

• Use language to LEARN

• Bottom-up, Top-down… and „injections of catalyst”

• „Think fast, speak slow”


Marcin Kokott

Agile/Lean Coach, Senior Consultant

Tieto,

[email protected]

http://twitter.com/MKokott

See also on BoF:

Roman Smirak

„Transforming 18000 people

company – Lean@Tieto”

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A3 language as the glue for lean transformation