For more information see: https://pickl.eu/blog/are-we-really-moving-faster-how-visualizing-flow-changed-the-way-we-work/

1. Are We Really Moving Faster? How
Visualizing Flow Changed the Way
We Work
Manja Lohse, PhD
Head of Incubators and Demonstrators, Elektrobit
Roman Pickl
Technical Project Manager and Continuous Improvement Agent, Elektrobit

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Roman Pickl (@rompic) Manja Lohse, PhD
Welcome
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3. Automotive: Disruptive Change

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Driving technology further — products & solutions
EB overview
Vehicle infrastructureAutomated driving User experienceConnected vehicle

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Global footprint

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Mik Kersten: Project to product (2018)
From time framed initiatives to continuous improvement
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Mik Kersten: Project to product (2018)
From customer projects to products that deliver value
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Customer
project

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Mik Kersten: Project to product (2018)
From local optimization to optimizing value streams
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Challenges are becoming more and more visible
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Contradicting goals
Actively working on
achieving the vision
Strong focus on daily business

10. Where we started

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https://pixabay.com/de/photos/parzelle-parzellen-pakete-lieferung-2484036/
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Fast physical feedback & visibility of problems

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Michael Kieslinger, Fluidtime: Developing an Ubiquitous Time Information System https://bit.ly/2Rya5Wg, https://wiki.jenkins.io/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=20250625, https://github.com/codedance/Retaliation, https://plugins.jenkins.io/build-monitor-plugin/
Jenkins Build Monitor View
"Red Bear Alert!" - The
Hudson Bear Lamps
RETALIATION - A Jenkins
"Extreme Feedback" Contraption
Fluidtime: Mechanical
display unit with shoes
Ambient Awareness / eXtreme Feedback Devices
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13. Winston Churchill
We shape our buildings and
afterwards our buildings shape us

14. Piggy-backing Change

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First dashboard: Status
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Epiphany I: We are creating too much inventory
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Flowboard
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen%27s_race#/media/File:Alice_queen2.jpg
“My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in
place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast
as that.”
― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice
Found There
Red Queen‘s race
Epiphany II – We will never be able to run fast enough
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Klaus Leopold Why Agile Teams Have Nothing To Do With Business Agility
John Smart https://medium.com/sooner-safer-happier/agility-build-the-right-thing-69d316aeb56b
Local Optimization & the Urgency Paradox
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• You can find the code of the dashboards that I developed here:
https://github.com/rompic/Smashing-Flowboard
• Find a blog post with more details here:
https://pickl.eu/blog/
• Forrester has recently published:
– Elevate Agile-plus-DevOps with VSM which describes the benefits of the tools available in the emerging Value Stream Management market.
– The Forrester Wave™: Value Stream Management Solutions, Q3 2020 which list 11 leading providers of such tools
TLDR; Just give me the code!
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22. Road ahead

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Concrete next steps
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Work on cross product
topics to set a frame
Cross product
prioritization and planning
Establish meaningful KPIs
to make real performance
of product development
measurable
Conduct value stream
analyses in various
departments and draw the
respective conclusions
Scale Continuous
Improvement

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Ensuring to make our achievements relevant and sustainable for the organization
Removing impediments arising from our company structure, culture etc.
Reflecting and learning a lot about EB and organization development
Transforming into a value-creating product company that is future-proof!!!
The challenges that still remain
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25. www.elektrobit.com
Manja Lohse, PhD
Roman Pickl (@rompic)
Thanks a lot and get in touch!