MaptiniSeattle lean coffee 4/28/2010
Corporate kaizen culture
Enablers
Failure is ok!
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See what's wrong
Google
Seek knowledge
Above all else
Customer value focused
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Optimize the whole
Trust
Small companies
Detracters
Fiefdoms
Give tasks to teams!
Teams hate silos
Not people
Change
Allies
Find
People
Public information
Reward for failing early
Stories
Reward questioning
What is done
Informal
Conversation
Formal
Micro
Receiving team defines
Macro
Whiteboard
Exercise
Brainstorm on stickies
Filter by lane
Done for dev
Done for test
Done for deploy
Review by lane
Different levels
Mmf
Product
Doesn't exist for software
Is true for books
So far
Task
Story
Lssc 10 recap
Awesome
Speakers
Tools
Conversations
Keynotes
Bob sharette
Against orthodoxy
Right thing at right time
Determining wip limits
Inactive tasks
Blocked column
Everything on the board
More than 1 / person?
Some aren't blocking
Personal kanban
Dev vs test cadence
Dev has own timeline
Bottleneck
Sit together
Test can help!
Talk to dev
Test
Sdet
Hotfixes
3 weeks
Previous gen
Next gen
Large flow map
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To after deploy
From before dev
Hot potato stories
How to track?
Put a mark every time it gets kicked back
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Stop the line
Hot potato stories
Recognize
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When
Involve everyone
Uncomfortable
Standup
Retrospective
When you see it
How
Interrupt everyone
Pull them into conference room
Food
Discuss object blocked, not people
Root cause
5 whys