Lean Thinking

Before Agile, let's settle on Lean. Before the new, let's get rid of the old.

Why this learning experience

Lean Thinking

This course is a return to the essence of agile: a connection to its Lean predecessor. A return to simplicity, continuous improvement, collaborative learning, constant value generation and efficiency in everyday work – the most successful agile adoptions are the ones that have managed to change Business As Usual!

In this Lean Thinking course, we will explore how this Japanese philosophy, with its focus on eliminating waste and Kaizen, provides an accessible approach for all organisations and teams, allowing them to improve their results without sacrificing productivity and well-being, transforming daily operations.

Lean is closely linked to what is known as agile, broadly sharing principles and values. However, when put into practice they have a nuance: Lean focuses on improving operations by making day-to-day operations more efficient, transforming what many call Business As Usual. Agile focuses more on developing projects that will later be incorporated into the operation. Currently, there are many organisations that despite adopting agile to manage projects, continue to have a saturation of agendas, multitasking, work overloads and paradoxically more work. Feelings of ‘overflow’, ‘water down’, ‘we can’t make a living’ or we are going like ‘headless chickens’, are the order of the day.

Details:

Languages: Spanish and English
Duration: 20 hours, 3 sessions of 2 hours.
Format: Online synchronous
Fechas:
- Wednesday 23rd, April 2025 (10:00hrs a 14:00hrs, Madrid, Spain)
- Wednesday 30th, April 2025 (10:00hrs a 14:00hrs, Madrid, Spain)
- Wednesday 7th, April 2025 (10:00hrs a 14:00hrs, Madrid, Spain)
Price: 250€.
10% discount for early bird registrations or for groups of 3 or more people from the same company.
20% discount for unemployed people

Objectives

Understanding what Lean is and how it can help us
Knowing the close relationship between Lean and Agile, and why focusing on Lean can be a successful approach to improve our business results
Understanding the different practices that Lean brings us to improve the productivity and efficiency of any process, increasing at the same time the well-being of people
Exploring specific cases and what other organisations are doing

This course is for you if...

If you are a person, in any field and industry, and you experience any of these situations, this workshop is for you!

You feel that your area is overloaded with work and is not being efficient
You see how multitasking, worthless meetings and lack of a shared vision are hindering the achievement of results
You would like to work with agile in the near future, but don’t know where to start
You already work with agile but it feels like an empty shell: disconnected from its essence, agile projects are generating more work for you and you don’t see substantial changes
You want to explore new practices to improve productivity while minimising stress
You lead a team and you want them to undergo a transformation, but with simple, straightforward and sustainable changes

What will I learn?

Introduction to Lean Thinking.
- Fundamentals of Lean, origin and principles. Where does Lean come from? Toyota Production System.
- Benefits of Lean. Why work with Lean?
- Understanding the relationship between Lean and Agile, Lean being the predecessor of agility. Is Lean the same as Agile? What are their synergies?
- Lean Thinking House
Kaizen: continuous improvement as a culture. How to move from a mindset of criticism to one of growth?
- Kaizen philosophy
- Lean Leadership and Gemba
- The Lean work environment
- Foundations for a Lean culture
Kaizen: continuous improvement in your team and process productivity. What practices can we apply to make our work simpler and more valuable?
- Objectives, metrics and indicators of success: how can we improve the way we measure success?
- Workflow mapping techniques.
- Elimination of waste and everything that does not generate value (3 Ms: Muda, Mura, Muri).
- 5 S’s to optimise order in physical and virtual work forms.
- Visual Management with Kanban, as a framework for visualising workflows, projects and continuous improvement.
- Challenge of perfection

Adoption of Lean Thinking on the human side:
- Delegation and empowerment
- Continuous improvement conversations: feedback and feedforward techniques
- Techniques to foster learning and improvement: hypothesis matrix, retrospectives, 5 whys
- Lean and personal productivity
Case studies and examples

Facilitator

Claudia Salas

Format

synchronous online

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