Let’s briefly look at three topics in the context of Lean Agility for an entire enterprise:
- Training
- Coaching
- Lean Process Leadership
Each of these topics drive improvements in the value outcomes for an enterprise. They make these impacts on value outcomes through people, process, skills, environments, teams, and mindsets; along the way, culture emerges from the interactions among the process, environments, and people.
Summary:
Lean Agile execution and holistic value delivery are driven through skillsets, mindsets, execution, and flow.
- Trainers improve skillsets of people and teams
- Coaches develop mindsets and execution by people and teams
- Lean-agile process leaders improve holistic execution and flow through process and environment
Overall, for Lean-Agility improvements and benefits across an entire enterprise:
- We’re improving flow of value in holistic system environments, not just isolated processes
- We’re shifting mindsets, not just skillsets
- We’re building skillsets as foundational to improvement potential
Training
- Instills new and/or improved skills
- Benefits from the application and/or development of a targeted curriculum (including internal training teams and local universities) for the training and skills needed
Coaching
- Improves application and development of skills and emergent culture
- Improves team and individuals
- Helps inject and apply training (from themselves or from other sources)
Lean Process Leadership:
- Fosters execution environment and emergent culture
- Improves execution flow of value in a holistic process and environment
- Helps inject and apply training (from themselves or from other sources)
Note: managers within an enterprise primarily orchestrate execution and results across people and environments; ideally they become coaches in a Lean-Agile enterprise.