PDCA, Agile and Cynefin

Le Duy AnMar 2017

AgendaThe PDCAPDCA with Water fall

IssuesPDCA with Agile

MeritCynefin, PDCA and an

organizationC=EC-->E

Very simpleEasy to implement :)

PDCA: the concept

Waterfall model accomodated PDCA of course, but

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PDCA and Water fall

PDCA and Waterfall

Issues

Top-down planning

Long feed-back cyle

Issues

Gen X manager: People are generally lazy and need to be pushed

Work in silos

PDCA and Agile

Merits

Outside-in planning

Many mini-cycles

Merits

Collaboration

Gen Y manager: believe in people

Cynefin and Organizations

C=E organization: tasks are well-known

Management by procedures

Admin Sales

HR Dev.

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)

C-->E organization: tasks logic are vastly unknown

Management by Objectives

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

Ref:

Cynefin FW: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Cynefin_framework

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