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• Define Value

• What are the deeper values hidden behind your more obvious goals?

• Which values are really your own? Which are driven by others?

• Eliminate Waste

• What are you doing or possessing that does not add value for you?

• What can you do to get rid of that waste? How do you measure it?

• Empower Yourself

• When do you feel empowered? How can you boost empowerment?

• How can you avoid situations of (self-)humiliation?

• Pull Value

• How can you reach a steady flow of value?

• Where do you see a impediments to the value flow?

• Improve Continuously

• What have you done lately to improve yourself or your environment?

• Which area of your life has not seen any improvement for too long?

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From & for: Created Day Month Year

Status Day Month Year

Person 1

Person 2

Is that you?

Strangers Interesting Boring Value Trap

Waiting

Inventory

Motion

Rework

Over-production

Over-processing

Trans-portation

Waste of Intellect

?!?

7+1 Types of Waste

You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

Stephen King, On Writing

Waiting (later) To-Do (soon) In Progress Impediments Done

Limit your WIP (Work in Progress) Pull from left to right, starting on the right side Take care of impediments (blockers) quickly

• Measure success

• Did you achieve the desired effect?

• Change your plan if results are lacking

• Goal: Continuity

• Act out on your plan

• Use the A6 and your Kanban board

• Create an improvement plan

• Use an A6 for planning

Plan Do

Check Act

Mantra: How to eat an elephant? Bite by bite!

Value: Gain more self-respect by tackling all my to-dos in time

Waste: Waiting Obstacles/root causes: Fear of a

long to-do list prevents me from

starting any task on the list

Actions: I use a Kanban Board and

apply the 5Ds (Do, Delay, Delegate,

Delete, Divide) of waiting waste

reduction.

Next step: Immediately after

creating the Kanban board, I work on

the very first entry of the WIP

column, but only for five minutes.

Measurement: Number of items on

Kanban board, checked weekly.

WIP<=3, To-Do <= 10within two

weeks from now

Update: I will review my to-do

behaviour in four weeks from now.

Don’t use A3 if A6 is enough, don’t use A6 if you can put it on a tiny

sticky note

Problem Statement

Why? Answer #1 Why? Answer #2 Why? Answer #5 Why? ...

Problem Statement

Tools People Processes

Resources Organi-zation

Environ-ment

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40%

60%

80%

100%

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

Effect

Effort

80/20 rule

60/3

90/48

96/80

Value

Idealism• Devoted to a cause

• Highly motivated

• Keeping up the truth

• Deep knowledge

• Result oriented

Opposite Value

Diplomacy• Respecting people

• Political animal

• Patient

• Overview knowledge

• Process oriented

Exaggerated Value

Fundamentalism• Narrow-minded

• Over-motivated

• Self-righteous

• Tunnel view

• Impatient

Exaggerated Opposite

Opportunism• Selfish, using people

• Sycophantic

• Underhanded

• Bluffing

• Unreliable

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About the Author

Jens R. Woinowski is working as a quality and risk manager at a major IT company. In his job, he learned about the power of Lean. At home , he discovered that you can use it beyond business . He blogs regularly about the application of Lean to personal matters. © 2014 Jens R. Woinowski