1. The Difficult Life of a Lean Team Leader
by Zsolt Fabók
November 2, 2011
http://zsoltfabok.com @ZsoltFabok

2. Nowadays, being a team leader means:
• Implementing, testing, deploying, so the usual
• Plus leading a team and working with people

3. Nowadays, being a team leader means:
• Implementing, testing, deploying, so the usual
• Plus leading a team and working with people

4. Part I:
Working with teams

5. It is proven that empowerment works;
set the boundaries and mentor your team
http://brenireland.blogspot.com/2011/05/archaeology-field-trip-and-first-irish.html

6. Sit with the team, and always be available

7. Get your hands dirty
http://brenireland.blogspot.com/2011/05/archaeology-field-trip-and-first-irish.html

8. Don’t be a superhero

9. Commit activities of two superhero team leaders:
90
68
number of commits
45
23
0
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
Team leader 1
Team Leader 2
Average team member

10. Know your team members
http://bit.ly/vARz90

11. Improving yourself, and
the team will respect you even more

12. Get rid of poisonous and
incompetent team members

13. Finally, the vacation test
http://thehandcraftedlife.blogspot.com/2011/08/vacation-itinerary-planning-belize.html

14. Find at least five differences
3 1 2 3 1 2
Queue Live Queue Live
Development Verification Deployment Development Verification Deployment
F D C B A D C B
G E E A
H H F
G
Before your vacation After your vacation

15. Part II:
Lean thinking won’t happen by itself

16. The first pull is easy as pie...
3 1 2
Queue Development Verification Live
Deployment
Ongoing Done Ongoing Done

17. The second pull is awfully difficult...
3 1 2
Queue Development Verification Live
Deployment
Ongoing Done Ongoing Done

18. WIP limit is easy to break, unless you block it
3 1 2
Queue Development Verification Live
Deployment
Ongoing Done Ongoing Done

19. In real life...
courtesy of Digital Natives, http://digitaln

20. Part III:
Self-management

21. “Five minutes Turkish”
(It is a polite way of saying ‘No’)
source: http://bit.ly/vmgKd1

22. Limit your TODO list to an A4 paper

23. Visit other teams and learn from them
gemba walk: http://thecriticalpath.info/2011/09/15/the-gemba-walk/

24. Thank you very much for your attention!
http://zsoltfabok.com @ZsoltFabok