Lean & Agile Thinking Principles for Leaders

Business Value of
Lean Leadership
22AttributesofSuccessfulBusiness
Executives,Directors,andManagers
Twitter: @dr_david_f_rico
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Agile Capabilities: http://davidfrico.com/rico-capability-agile.pdf
Agile Cost of Quality: http://www.davidfrico.com/agile-vs-trad-coq.pdf
DevOps Return on Investment (ROI): http://davidfrico.com/rico-devops-roi.pdf
Dave’s NEW Business Agility Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTvtsAkL8xU
Dave’s NEWER Scaled Agile Framework SAFe 4.5 Video: http://youtu.be/1TAuCRq5a34
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DoD Fighter Jets versus Amazon Web Services: http://davidfrico.com/dod-agile-principles.pdf
Principles of Collaborative Contracting: http://davidfrico.com/collaborative-contract-principles.pdf

Author Biography
 36+ years in IT industry
 Oversees large IT portfolio
 Cloud, Lean, & Agile leader
 Numerous books & papers
 Cost-benefit thought leader
 Agile & CMMI ROI expert
 Frequent public speaker
 PMP, CSEP, EBAS, SAFe
 Teaches at 7 universities
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LEAN Leadership Principles
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 Guide organizations to deliver new impactful products and services at the speed-of-light.
 Reduce risk using millions of inexpensive learning loops per day to uncover tacit market needs.
 Apply digital transformation principles to increase value and reduce waste, defects, and cycle-time.

Servant Leadership
lead·er·ship (lē′dәr-shĭp′) Guide,
shepherd, direct, influence, inspire;
To show the path forward.
 Recognized lean thinker
 Promotes lean principles
 Builds a lean organization
RESULT: Lean organizational change
institutionalizes much faster
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con·ver·sa·tion (kŏn′vәr-sā′shәn)
Chat, discuss, exchange, dialogue;
To exchange thoughts, feelings.
 Daily F2F communications
 Mostly casual and informal
 Unstructured conversation
RESULT: Lean just-in-time exchange of
up-to-date information/data
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Conversationally Rich

col·lab·o·ra·tive (kә-lăb′ә-rә-tĭv)
Cooperative, synergistic, together;
To create a new idea together.
 Extremely small teams
 Work in collaborative pairs
 Temporary as-needed basis
RESULT: Lean innovations developed
and delivered extremely fast
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Highly Collaborative

vi·su·al (vĭzh′o͞o‐əl) Draw, paint,
picture, model, illustrate, elucidate;
To communicate with images.
 Simple, informal visuals
 More pictures than words
 Low cost, easy to maintain
RESULT: Lean information exchanged
holistically and completely
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Visually Intensive

so·cial (sō′shәl) Friendly, congenial,
kind, amicable, intimate, neighborly;
To interact in a positive way.
 A congenial workplace
 Make it informal, intimate
 Conducive to cooperation
RESULT: Lean performance optimizes,
balances, and stabilizes
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Social Atmosphere

em·pow·er (ĕm-pou′әr) Delegate,
permit, endow, entitle, authorize;
To grant equal decision rights.
 Delegate power, authority
 Instill employee ownership
 Bottom up decision making
RESULT: Lean performance is enabled
to reach peak speed/quality
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Empowerment Oriented

fo·cused (fō′kәst) Aim, point, direct,
zero-in, undivided, concentrate on;
To concentrate on a single task.
 Do one small task at a time
 Prepare, start, and finish
 Minimize interruptions
RESULT: Lean speed, quality, cycle
time, performance improve
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Focused Single Tasking

light·en (līt′әn) Ease, decrease,
lessen, remove, relieve, alleviate;
To decrease size of a large task.
 Decrease task sizes
 Build in excess capacity
 Allow time to be productive
RESULT: Lean throughput, lead time,
cycle time, quality improve
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Lightened Workloads

bal·anced (băl′әnst) Level, match,
align, smooth, equalize, harmonize;
To harmonize opposing forces.
 Match demand to capacity
 Pull work through system
 Start work you can finish
RESULT: Lean wait time, bottlenecks,
queues and delays reduced
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Balanced Workflow

prod·uct (prŏd′әkt) Wares, goods,
yield, output, release, merchandise;
To deliver a valuable request.
 Establish value streams
 Deliver small products fast
 Create product ecosystems
RESULT: Lean value creation achieved
via rapid product feedback
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Product Orientation

ex·per·i·ment (ĭk-spĕr′ә-mәnt) Test,
trial, probe, model, sample, prototype;
To gather rapid data from a test.
 Form business hypotheses
 Develop fast, low-cost tests
 Gather feedback and repeat
RESULT: Lean throughput, value, and
performance achieved fast
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Small Experiments

batch·es (băch′әs) Group, set, lot,
pack, bunch, collection, aggregate;
To order a large amount of jobs.
 Decrease batch sizes
 Shorten delivery times
 Plan for fast turnaround
RESULT: Lean lead, cycle time, and
feedback cycles decreased
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Extremely Small Batches

one·piece (wŭn′pēs) Single, only,
isolated, solitary, discrete, individual;
To order one element at a time.
 One requirement at a time
 Make requirements small
 Deploy requirement fast
RESULT: Lean performance, feedback,
and value achieved quickly
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One-Piece Workflow

min·i·mal (mĭn′ә-mәl) Easy, small,
simple, elementary, uncomplicated;
To create a very simple solution.
 Form very simple designs
 Independent as possible
 Create a single function
RESULT: Lean lead times, cycle times,
and delivery speeds increase
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Minimalistic Design

e·mer·gent (ĭ-mûr′jәnt) Grow, form,
rise, evolve, unfold, develop, mature;
To gradually evolve a solution.
 Gradually create designs
 Grow and evolve solutions
 Adapt to unplanned change
RESULT: Lean customer value reached
very quickly and completely
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Emergent Architecture

mod·u·lar (mŏj′ә-lәr) Unit, chunk,
block, interchangeable component;
To make small independent units.
 Create small services
 Functionally independent
 Amalgamate to ecosystems
RESULT: Lean value is achieved fast,
efficiently, and effectively
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Modularized Microservices

dev-ops (dĕv′ŏps) Early, automated,
iterative, fast, test, integrate, deploy;
To automate test and deployment.
 Automate version control
 Automate end-to-end tests
 Create automated pipelines
RESULT: Lean balance of work flows,
demand and value achieved
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Intense DevOps Automation

de·ploy (dĭ-ploi′) Send, ship, deliver,
launch, release, install, distribute;
To quickly deploy small services.
 Create small microservices
 Automatic test and certify
 Fast automatic deploys
RESULT: Lean workflow, effectiveness,
efficiency, value, & feedback
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Frequent Small Deployments

cy·cle·time (sī′kәl-tīm) Effort, hours,
duration, schedule, throughput, interval;
To accelerate end-to-end delivery.
 Mapend-to-endvaluestream
 Eliminate low-value activity
 Automate manual process
RESULT: Lean workflow fast, efficient,
value adding, & inexpensive
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Fast End-to-End Cycle Times

in·no·vate (ĭn′ә-vāt′) Invent, create,
new, fresh, original, novelty, futuristic;
To create new original solution.
 More up-front designers
 Fast small experimentation
 Automated backend deploy
RESULT: Lean value adding product
and service development
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Shift-Left Innovation

meas·ure (mĕzh′әr) Count, quantify,
qualify, appraise, assess, evaluate;
To quickly assess customer value.
 Quickly market prototypes
 Assess customer reaction
 Optimize customer value
RESULT: Lean end-to-end enterprise
value creation & optimization
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Customer Measurement

im·prove (ĭm‐pro͞ov′) Fix, enhance,
amend, refine, polish, purify, perfect;
To make fast frequent correction.
 Frequently retrospect
 Radical process redesign
 Quickly implement changes
RESULT: Lean end-to-end efficiency,
effectiveness & market value
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Relentless Improvement

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Summary
 Servant Leadership
 Extremely Small Batches
 Business Experimentation
 Simple Minimalistic Designs
 Emergent & Evolutionary Design
 Small, Highly-Collaborative Teams
 Focused, Single-Tasking, Limited WIP
 Long-Lived Value Streams & Budgeting
 Rich, High-Context Informal Conversations
 End-to-End Fully Automated DevOps Pipelines
 Level Workflow by Matching Capacity to Demand
 One-Piece Workflow & Frequent Small Deployments
 Highly-Modularized Design-Independent Microservices
 Excess Capacity for Fewer High-Value Adding Innovations
 Frequent Qualitative & Quantitative Customer Measurements
 Continuous Improvement, Adaptation to Change, Pivot & Move
 Radical End-to-End Value Stream Lead & Cycle Time Reductions
 Simple Visualization, Openness, and Transparent Communications
 Happy, Healthy, & Informal Social Relationships, Trust, & Attitudes
 Empowerment, Employee Ownership, & Frontline Bottoms-Up Decision-Making
 Shift-Left Thinking--More People Creating & Innovating than Testing & Validating

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Dave’s Capabilities
Software
Quality
Mgt.
Technical
Project
Mgt.
Software
Development
Methods
Leadership &
Org. Change
Systems
Engineering
Cost Estimates
& Scheduling
Acquisition &
Contracting
Strategy &
Roadmapping
Lean, Kanban,
& Six Sigma
Modeling &
Simulations
Big Data,
Cloud, NoSQL
Workflow
Automation
Metrics,
Models, & SPC
BPR, IDEF0,
& DoDAF
DoD 5000,
TRA, & SRA
PSP, TSP, &
Code Reviews
CMMI &
ISO 9001
Innovation
Management
Statistics, CFA,
EFA, & SEM
Research
Methods
Evolutionary
Design
Valuation — Cost-Benefit Analysis, B/CR, ROI, NPV, BEP, Real Options, etc.
Lean-Agile — Scrum, SAFe, Continuous Integration & Delivery, DevOpsSec, etc.
STRENGTHS – Data Mining  Gathering & Reporting Performance Data  Strategic Planning  Executive & Manage-
ment Briefs  Brownbags & Webinars  White Papers  Tiger-Teams  Short-Fuse Tasking  Audits & Reviews  Etc.
● Data mining. Metrics, benchmarks, & performance.
● Simplification. Refactoring, refinement, & streamlining.
● Assessments. Audits, reviews, appraisals, & risk analysis.
● Coaching. Diagnosing, debugging, & restarting stalled projects.
● Business cases. Cost, benefit, & return-on-investment (ROI) analysis.
● Communications. Executive summaries, white papers, & lightning talks.
● Strategy & tactics. Program, project, task, & activity scoping, charters, & plans.
PMP,CSEP,
EBAS,BAF,FCP,
FCT,ACP,CSM,
DEVOPS,&
SAFE
36+ YEARS
IN IT
INDUSTRY

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