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Improve Continuously
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• Define Value
• What are the deeper values hidden behind your more obvious goals?
• Which values are really your own? Which are driven by others?
• Eliminate Waste
• What are you doing or possessing that does not add value for you?
• What can you do to get rid of that waste? How do you measure it?
• Empower Yourself
• When do you feel empowered? How can you boost empowerment?
• How can you avoid situations of (self-)humiliation?
• Pull Value
• How can you reach a steady flow of value?
• Where do you see a impediments to the value flow?
• Improve Continuously
• What have you done lately to improve yourself or your environment?
• Which area of your life has not seen any improvement for too long?
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From & for: Created Day Month Year
Status Day Month Year
Person 1
Person 2
Is that you?
Strangers Interesting Boring Value Trap
Waiting
Inventory
Motion
Rework
Over-production
Over-processing
Trans-portation
Waste of Intellect
?!?
7+1 Types of Waste
You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.
Stephen King, On Writing
Waiting (later) To-Do (soon) In Progress Impediments Done
Limit your WIP (Work in Progress) Pull from left to right, starting on the right side Take care of impediments (blockers) quickly
• Measure success
• Did you achieve the desired effect?
• Change your plan if results are lacking
• Goal: Continuity
• Act out on your plan
• Use the A6 and your Kanban board
• Create an improvement plan
• Use an A6 for planning
Plan Do
Check Act
Mantra: How to eat an elephant? Bite by bite!
Value: Gain more self-respect by tackling all my to-dos in time
Waste: Waiting Obstacles/root causes: Fear of a
long to-do list prevents me from
starting any task on the list
Actions: I use a Kanban Board and
apply the 5Ds (Do, Delay, Delegate,
Delete, Divide) of waiting waste
reduction.
Next step: Immediately after
creating the Kanban board, I work on
the very first entry of the WIP
column, but only for five minutes.
Measurement: Number of items on
Kanban board, checked weekly.
WIP<=3, To-Do <= 10within two
weeks from now
Update: I will review my to-do
behaviour in four weeks from now.
Don’t use A3 if A6 is enough, don’t use A6 if you can put it on a tiny
sticky note
Problem Statement
Why? Answer #1 Why? Answer #2 Why? Answer #5 Why? ...
Problem Statement
Tools People Processes
Resources Organi-zation
Environ-ment
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Effect
Effort
80/20 rule
60/3
90/48
96/80
Value
Idealism• Devoted to a cause
• Highly motivated
• Keeping up the truth
• Deep knowledge
• Result oriented
Opposite Value
Diplomacy• Respecting people
• Political animal
• Patient
• Overview knowledge
• Process oriented
Exaggerated Value
Fundamentalism• Narrow-minded
• Over-motivated
• Self-righteous
• Tunnel view
• Impatient
Exaggerated Opposite
Opportunism• Selfish, using people
• Sycophantic
• Underhanded
• Bluffing
• Unreliable
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efine Value
liminate Waste
mpower Yourself
ull Value
Improve Continuously
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About the Author
Jens R. Woinowski is working as a quality and risk manager at a major IT company. In his job, he learned about the power of Lean. At home , he discovered that you can use it beyond business . He blogs regularly about the application of Lean to personal matters. © 2014 Jens R. Woinowski