Parallel evolution
Last Thursday and Friday I participated in the Lean and Kanban Belgium 2010 conference. I was scheduled to present a session on Friday morning, so I could go to many sessions on Thursday.
Every session that I attended on Thursday said many things I wanted to say:
- Sandrine Olivencia talked about challenging the team for continuous improvement
- Dave Nicolette talked about the dysfunctions around budgeting and the need for IT to integrate, not align, with the value stream
- Anthony Marcano and Andy Palmer explained how analysis can be implemented as a pull system
- Ryan Shriver essentially said all I wanted to say about finding the real goals of our users and quantifying their needs
- John Seddon told tales about really understanding value demand and taking a systems thinking approach to the design of work in his usual, inimitable style
What was left to say? At the end of the day I could scrap about 3/4 of my talk. The good news is that many people are independently reporting that these techniques and approaches work. And they can show results.
In the end, there was more than enough to fill an hour. After the presentation several people asked questions and discussed what I presented.
p.s. I followed Dave Nicolette‘s advice to grow a profitable consultancy: coin a new acronym. I give you “IDD”. You’ll have to watch the presentation to know what it means. And you’ll have to pay me big bucks to come implement it in your organisation 🙂
