The Seven Samurai Kanban for Self-Propagating Transformation
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XSCALE's "3D" Kanban modelled on Kurosawa's timeless classic of culture-change. A compelling metaphor for modern self-propagating transformation.
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- 1. Self-Propagating Transformation & The Seven Samurai Kanban eXponential Simple Continuous Autonomous Learning Ecosystem A L L I A N C E eXponential Simple Continuous Autonomous Learning Ecosystem A L L I A N C E
- 3. XSCALE Alliance is the Linux of the agile world, an open, honorable ecosystem of prominent independent agilists. Not a certificate mill: • We don’t certify roles; we use recommendation chains to qualify real world capability. • We hand-select coaches via direct experience of their work, not “greasy pole” bureaucracy. • We have no trainers. All XSCALE coaches train and all collaborate on shared training collateral, keeping it up with real state-of-the-art agility. eXponential Simple
- 4. Recognized by … Market Guide to Enterprise Agile Frameworks 2016 & 2017 Partner Institutional Member eXponential Simple
- 5. Why?
- 6. Scaling is an anti-pattern that slows flow of learnings through an organization because of: • Big meetings • Deep hierarchies • Long feedback loops XSCALE doesn’t scale agile. It de-scales organization. But de-scaling doesn’t mean down-sizing. It means Self-directing portfolios of Self-managing streams of Self-organizing teams.
- 7. How?
- 8. 40 bandits threaten a tiny village …
- 9. … they’d robbed the year before.
- 19. Agile rganization “Seven Samurai” Self-Propagating Transformation Change features are prioritized breadth-first to maximize impact and minimize WIP. We represent change progress using “Seven Samurai” Kanban & Throughput Diagrams
- 20. What?
- 21. Products are service ecosystems Product return curves are sigmoids Don’t chain the curves; stack them eXponential return
- 22. Design means the elegance of minimum Not look and feel; how the ecosystem works Design, Delivery & Devops work hand-in-glove Simple design BUILDLEARN MEASURE TESTS DATA CODE REFACTOR
- 23. At one time there’s one bottleneck constraint Work on other constraints is premature Because it won’t increase Throughput Continuous throughput Throughput
- 24. Self-organising teams don’t have masters Self-managing streams don’t have owners Leadership as a Service + Chapters & Councils Autonomous Teams
- 25. Value flow, work flow, and flow of learning Self-organizing transformation: steel threads Continuous Delivery x Continuous Adaptation triple loop Learning
- 26. Ecosystems thinking Ecosystems as networks of mutual benefit Whole board: think globally, act locally Avoiding hill-climbing: iterative and reductive
- 27. XSCALE isn’t a framework, but a set of practice pattern languages for Agile Organization: • Business Agility: De-scaling chapters and councils, self-propagating transformation and throughput accounting • Product Management: Breadth-first, set-based, scientific, collaborative market-impact-driven product squads. • High Performance Delivery: XP, CI/CDD, Mob Refactoring and 3D Kanban • Extended DevOps: “B2D2” - using BDD in production -> qualitative analytics driving real “Three Way” DevOps.
- 28. has negotiated a special price on XSCALE Business Agility training with India’s first XBA Coach Ashish Mishra Gurgaon 24-25 March 2018 https://www.townscript.com/e/xba-exponential- business-agility-134321
- 29. Self-Propagating Transformation & The Seven Samurai Kanban eXponential Simple Continuous Autonomous Learning Ecosystem A L L I A N C E