1. What is the best
Lean Method?
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2. There is often a competition of methods in the Lean-Community…
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Agile
Kata
Lean Leadership
Lean Innovation
Scrum
Kaizen Blitz
Lean Six-sigma
…and the questions wich method is the right one raises frequent discussion.
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Question to consider: What if this is the wrong question?
Then the discussion would be waste.
Why could that bee?
Because to many questions there is not a single true answer.
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Example
Question: If you had a gun in your hand right now, should you
kill another human being?
Answer: Certainly not!
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5. Situation: You come home and find an intruder about to shoot your family with an
automatic gun. He is facing you with his back and has not recognized you yet.
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Question: If you had a gun in your hand right now, should you
kill another human being?
Answer: Well…
Remember: You have less then 1 second to decide.
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6. Philosophers use the concept of consilience to find answers to such questions.
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Principle: If independent, unrelated sources come to the same conclusion
(answers converge), we can assume, that the „truth“ is likely to be in this direction.

7. So, what does this mean for the Lean-Community?!
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Well, we should change the question…
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Old Question: How do the methods differ and which is the right one?
New Question: To what principles do the methods converge?

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Here is what I have come up with so far…
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People and ability instead of output metrics and content.
Small steps and validation instead of plans and implementation.
Enable decentralized and autonomous decisions and actions.
Kata
Scrum
Lean Development
Agile Lean Innovation
…
Let’s start finding out more about the common principles the methods converge to.!
Do this by picking a method, constantly improving it and sharing your insights.

9. Final though: One way to improve a „method for improvement“ is by applying it to itself.
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If you like this idea please share your insight towards which
principles the methods converge.!
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