The aim of lean thinking is to create a lean enterprise, one that sustains growth by aligning customer satisfaction with employee satisfaction, and that offers innovative products or services profitably while minimizing unnecessary over-costs to customers, suppliers and the environment. The basic insight of lean thinking is that if you train every person to identify wasted time and effort in their own job and to better work together to improve processes by eliminating such waste, the resulting enterprise will deliver more value at less expense while developing every employee's confidence, competence and ability to work with others.

1. Agile, Scrum and
Large Scale Scrum
Thinking tools: Lean Thinking

2. About me
Srikanth Ramanujam
Coaching agility in Organizations
- 15+ years as Agile practitioner
- Several multi-year
transformations
- Have taught and coached Agile,
Scrum, Large Scale Scrum to
100’s of teams
- Focus on Organization design
through Antho-complexity,
Lean and Systems Thinking
- Enabling people in large
ecosystems helping them adapt
to new mental models
Candidate Large Scale Scrum Trainer
Cynefin Foundations Trainer
MBA - Technology Management, La Trobe University
Scrum Alliance: CSM, CSPO, CSP-SM, CSP-PO, CAL (CAL1/2),
Candidate CTC
Scrum.org: PSM-I, PSM-II, SPS (Nexus), Candidate PST
LeSS.works: CLP, Candidate CLT
Cognitive Edge: Cynefin Foundations Trainer, Sensemaker
Phoenix Project game certified facilitator - DevOps and Business simulation
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3. Large Scale Scrum: The
Principles...

4. Lean Thinking
Lean thinking is a business methodology that aims to provide a new way to think about how to organize
human activities to deliver more benefits to society and value to individuals while eliminating waste. The
term “lean thinking” was coined by James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones[1]
to capture the essence of
their in-depth study of Toyota's fabled Toyota Production System.[2]
Lean thinking is a way of thinking
about an activity and seeing the waste inadvertently generated by the way the process is organized.
The aim of lean thinking is to create a lean enterprise, one that sustains growth by aligning customer
satisfaction with employee satisfaction, and that offers innovative products or services profitably while
minimizing unnecessary over-costs to customers, suppliers and the environment. The basic insight of lean
thinking is that if you train every person to identify wasted time and effort in their own job and to better
work together to improve processes by eliminating such waste, the resulting enterprise will deliver more
value at less expense while developing every employee's confidence, competence and ability to work with
others.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_thinking

5. The house of Lean...
1. lean goal
2. lean foundation: lean-thinking
manager-teachers
3. respect for people
4. continuous improvement
5. 14 principles
6. lean product development
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6. Output...

8. To outcomes...

10. Lean - the 14 principles
1. Base management decisions on a long term
philosophy, even at the expense of short-term
financial goals.
2. Move toward flow; move to ever-smaller batch
sizes and cycle times to deliver value fast & and
to expose weakness and hidden problems.
3. Use pull systems to avoid overproduction of
WIP or inventory; decide as late as possible.
4. Level the work---reduce variability and
overburden to remove unevenness.
5. Build a culture of stopping and fixing problems
to ultimately build quality in; teach everyone to
methodically study problems.
6. Standardized tasks are the foundation for
continuous improvement and employee
empowerment.
7. Use visual controls (visual management) to
reveal problems—and to coordinate.

11. Lean - the 14 principles (continued)
8. Use only reliable thoroughly-tested technology
that serves your people and process.
9. Grow leaders from within who thoroughly
understand the work, live the philosophy, and
teach it to others.
10. Develop exceptional people and teams who
follow your company’s philosophy
11. Respect your extended network of partners by
challenging them to grow and helping them
improve.
12. Go see for yourself at the real place work to
thoroughly understand the situation and help.
13. Make decisions slowly by consensus,
thoroughly considering all options; implement
decisions rapidly.
14. Become and sustain a learning organization
through relentless reflection and kaizen.

12. Lean Product
Development
Goal: Outlearn the
competition

13. Lean Product
Development practices
Goal: Outlearn the
competition

14. From the game of silos...

15. To a game worth playing and watching

16. Lean Wastes
Focusing on waste
itself is not the goal -
waste removal is a
byproduct of using
Lean Thinking and its
principles.
Abbreviation:
“Tim Woods”

17. Lean video and discuss
Four Principles Lean
Management - Get Lean in 90
Seconds
- Video and discussions
Source:
https://youtu.be/wfsRAZUnonI

18. Recommended reading
● Dr. Jeffrey Liker’s The Toyota Way
● Inside the Mind of Toyota by Professor Satoshi Hino.
● Extreme Toyota by Osono, Shimizu, and Takeuchi. Hirotaka Takeuchi was also co-author of the famous 1986
Harvard Business Review article “The New New Product Development Game” that introduced key ideas of Scrum.
● Lean Product and Process Development by Allen Ward and The Toyota Product Development System by Liker and
Morgan
● Toyota Culture by Liker and Michael Hoseus.
● Lean Thinking by Drs. Womack and Jones is an entertaining and well-written summary of some lean principles by
authors who know their subject well.
● The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production by Womack, Jones, and Roos
● Workplace Management by Taiichi Ohno is a short book by the creator of the Toyota Production System.
● Mary and Tom Poppendieck’s books Lean Software Development and Implementing Lean Software Development
Source: https://less.works/less/principles/lean-thinking.html

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