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Great if you’re genuinely in the world of cause and effect, but most interesting problems aren’t really like that. You’re either experimenting (“sending probes”
by asplake 7y ago
Great if you’re genuinely in the world of cause and effect, but most interesting problems aren’t really like that. You’re either experimenting (“sending probes”) to test the impact of different things, or focussing somewhere more productive, like the outcomes achievable were the problem to be overcome, bypassed, or simply ignored.
- trhway 7y agoWhen a Six Sigma/Lean/Agile black belt(s) is thrust upon your team/dept/org they would cause a great pain by forcing the cognitive dissonance between those 2 worlds upon you. You'd feel these fishbones like they are really in your throat and sticking right into your brain from inside there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishikawa_diagram#Fishbone_Diagram_in_Lean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishikawa_diagram#Fishbone_Diag...
- asplake 7y agoMany Lean folks do get it, but clearly not all...
- karateka 7y agoI can't believe there is actually such a title as an "Agile Black Belt". Had to Google it to make sure. Not sure Jigoro Kano would be happy to see his belt system used as a marketing buzzword.
- zhte415 7y agoA good black belt is an exceptional communicator, not the only skill, but one of them. They shouldn't make people feel fishbones are in their throat, but working through others' skills, especially SMEs and people on the floor, perhaps more so working with the team rather than with management of the team; the reason they're there is because management don't have the bandwidth, experience, or have other problems, preventing improvement.