Minor thoughts on types of organizations and management style, from PDCA, Agile and Cynefin perspective. Influenced by "The Lean Startup" of Eric Ries

1. PDCA, Agile and Cynefin
Le Duy An
Mar 2017

2. Agenda
The PDCA
PDCA with Water fall
Issues
PDCA with Agile
Merit
Cynefin, PDCA and an
organization
C=E
C-->E

3. 
 Very simple
 Easy to implement :)
PDCA: the concept

4. Waterfall model accomodated PDCA of
course, but
 Think twice: Mời bạn nghĩ 
PDCA and Water fall

5. PDCA and Waterfall

6. Issues

Top-down planning
Long feed-back cyle

7. Issues

Gen X manager: People
are generally lazy and
need to be pushed
Work in silos

8. PDCA and Agile

9. Merits

Outside-in planning
Many mini-cycles

10. Merits

Collaboration
Gen Y manager: believe in
people

11. Cynefin and Organizations

12. C=E organization: tasks are well-
known
Management by procedures
Admin Sales
HR Dev.

13. Risk
 Plan and Check mostly in Managers, Admin,
HR, Accounting’s hand
 Do and Action are left for the majority of staffs
without clear and unified directions
 → People with Plan and Check authorities
easily become power abusive (gen X)

14. C-->E organization: tasks logic are
vastly unknown
Management by Objectives

15. Merits
 Team collaboration,
transparency, quick
experiments, quick feedback
→ MVP (minimum viable
product) runway and
validated-learning
 → safe env. for new ideas,
increased self-mastery and
ownership

16. Ref:
 Cynefin FW:
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin_fram
ework
Build-Measure-Learn
 The Lean Start-up