"Donde no hay estándar, no puede haber kaizen (mejora continua)" - Taiichi Ohno
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"Where there is no standard, there can be no kaizen (continuous improvement)" - Taiichi Ohno
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Este blog comparte estrategias y aprendizajes sobre desarrollo de software, marcos, métodos y metodologías ágiles como Scrum, Kanban y XP, con un enfoque en escalamiento ágil y Business Agility. Su propósito es ayudar a profesionales de la gerencia de proyectos, productos, scrum masters, agile coaches, agentes de cambio, y líderes a mejorar sus procesos y promover la experimentación como motor de innovación, facilitando su adaptación en entornos empresariales cambiantes.
"Donde no hay estándar, no puede haber kaizen (mejora continua)" - Taiichi Ohno
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"Where there is no standard, there can be no kaizen (continuous improvement)" - Taiichi Ohno
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Due to the above, the idea of this minibook entered my backlog of pending to build, and today I am finally sharing it with the Agile community and with all those who want to take their work teams to a mindset of continuous improvement.
The illustrations were made by my wife Diana Apráez, the launch flyer was designed by my daughter Mariana, translation by Dhiraj Bellara - @BellaraDhiraj, additionally I asked colleagues and friends of the Latin American Agile Community to collaborate with me with their reviews, prologues, advices and revisions, thanks again: Diana, Nadia, Lucho, Carlos Palacio, Carlos Quiroga, Carlos Serna, Wbeimar, Juan Andrés, Jaime, Augusto, Alma, Roberto, Daniel and Leonardo for all your contributions.
For the English edition, Ben Linders -https://www.benlinders.com/- did me the honor of writing a Foreword.
I share it below.
Foreword by Ben Linders
Retrospectives are not a new thing. They became widely known through the agile manifesto, the Scrum Guide, and by books like Project Retrospectives by Norm Kerth and Agile Retrospectives by Esther Derby and Diana Larsen. The practice of reflecting to learn and improve is much older. I was doing it already in the past century, by assisting people to form a shared picture of what's happening to learn and improve.
The main thing that we can learn from agile is that retrospecting is a team activity. It's up to the team to find out, acknowledge, and take action. The retrospective facilitator is there to assist the team, to provide the environment, and foster a culture where people feel safe to speak up. Having said that, facilitating is not an easy thing to do.
Many people still seem to struggle when facilitating retrospectives. Expectations are often high, which makes it even harder. Jorge's book brings together many useful practices and suggestions that can help you to facilitate retrospectives that help teams to become a better version of themselves. Use the book to experiment in your retrospectives, and see what works for you. Don't worry if something goes wrong, remember the Prime Directive and use it to learn from things that didn't work. Occasionally you may want to retrospect your retrospectives too.
Wishing you a wonderful journey of learning and improving!
- Ben Linders
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Thanks a lot Ben for this foreword!
Thanks a lot Dhiraj for the translation!
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Agile greetings / Saludos ágiles
Jorge Abad
La Mejora Continua no tiene como propósito ser cumplida por el proceso, esta ahí para hacernos inalcanzables. |
Retrasar el realizar una mejora es reducir la probabilidad de supervivencia de la organización |
"En Toyota se hacen más de un millón de mejoras en el año con su proceso de mejora continua o Kaizen"Decidí averiguar la referencia a esa cita y un agilista, Hugo Suaréz me proporcionó la referencia exacta,
"Una de las características de los trabajadores japoneses es que usan tanto el cerebro como las manos. Nuestros trabajadores proporcionan 1.5 millones de sugerencias al año y el 95% de ellas se ponen en uso práctico. Existe un interés casi tangible por el mejoramiento en el aire de Toyota"
Eiji Toyoda, Presidente del Consejo de la Toyota Motor.
no caer en la tentación de realizar mejora continua por que lo dice el proceso, el framework, el marco, la metodología, o la norma, esta aproximación es una mala interpretación del método de Toyota y se aleja radicalmente del propósito del Kaizen, hay que hacer mejora continua por que es la única forma de hacernos inalcanzables.Gracias a mis amigos y referentes que han compartido información que es verídica y comprobable, suena obvio, pero es importante saber a que líderes seguir en el mundo empresarial y de la agilidad.
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Patrón: Scrumming the Scrum [4] |
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Efecto de programar con código apestoso (crappy code) (en español no encuentro una palabra polite para crappy) [4] |
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Efecto de trabajar con código limpio (clean code) [4] |
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Incremento de velocidad aplicando los patrones 1 y 2 [4] |