True Continuous Improvement with Toyota Kata • Jesper Boeg • GOTO 2018

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2018. #gotocon #gotocph

Jesper Boeg - Pragmatic Agile/Lean coach

ORIGINAL TALK TITLE
Your Potential is much Bigger than You Think – True Continuous Improvement with Toyota Kata!

ABSTRACT
Well, it seems most of us got it wrong. While the Lean manufacturing community were busy copying everything from “Andon Buttons” to “Work Cell Layouts" from Toyota, Agile Coaches (myself included) convinced companies that “Burndown Charts”, “Product Owners” and “Sprint Review meetings” were all part of essential best practices that would solve their problems and make them successful.
In 2009 Mike Rother published a book with the strange name “Toyota Kata”. Reading that was a deciding moment personally and a wake-up call for many consultants across the world. The basic message was that though we can achieve short term success by copying tools [...]

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[johnpritchard]

Interesting subject and well presented. I have a question..
Could you use the Kata principle for focusing on a business\product related improvement?
eg. Set a challenge such as.. Reduce time needed to onboard a new customer, then outline the the current state of customer onboarding process, then specify a target state you would like to achieve first, then run your experiments (create and prove ideas\stories etc.) to get to the this state?

[gust]

Very good conference, very clear explanation about Toyota Kata

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