lean at vg - may 2015

Lean at

Go To StatementConsidered Harmful

Edsger W. Dijkstra, March 1968

Management DoctrineConsidered Harmful

Wadim Grasza, June 2012

LEAN

EXPERIMENTATIONbeats planning

avoiding huge

COMMITMENTS

commitments tend to

FAIL

failures produce

WASTE

why should we use

LEAN?

Lean solves

COMPLEX PROBLEMS

LEANNR

INNOVATION

ideas are

FRAGILE

The world needs yet another MySpace or Friendster!

Jon Olav’s solution

Frode’s solution

Bjarne’s solution

Yuwen’s solution

Wadim’s solution

TIME

Decide as late as possible

celebrate

FAILURE

deliver value as

FASTas possible

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When did you ever kill a product or feature?

OUTPUT > OUTCOME

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EMPOWERthe team

that

STARTUPfeeling

Who

MANAGES

?

Frederick Winslow Taylor1856 – 1915

optimize for

RESILIENCEor die

Toyota:

EMPOWER EVERYONE

to influence the mainstream

Saturate people with

HIGHER PURPOSE

“It changed my life from being depressed, bored - and like my son said, it changed my attitude. It

changed me all for the better.”

Rick Madrid, TPS alumni

Provide

AUTONOMYby empowering to experiment

encourage

CONFLICTa.k.a. the good stuff

idea

MERITOCRACY

PM:

Use the

POTENTIALof your intelligent employees

FOR YOUR ADVANTAGE

WHAT NOW?