Like all good things come to an end, we come to the last workshop of the Visual Management module: the retrospective and the closing. The intention of this last moment of exchanges is to loop the experimentation with the initial objectives and to share together the learnings of the collective.
I simply describe in this article the results obtained as examples of what we can hope to achieve with this type of support. Good reading ! 🙂
Related articles:
- Agile Rocket: Visual Management Module
- Workshop 1: Kick-off
- Workshop 2: On the Board
- Workshop 3: Implementation (Part 1)
- Workshop 4: Implementation (Part 2)
- Workshop 5: Free
- Visual Management Module: Retrospective and closing
Organization of the workshop
As its name suggests, this workshop is made up of 2 distinct parts:
- a moment of retrospective on the support period
- a moment of closure or more precisely of opening to glimpse the possibilities of the future
Retrospective
On this initial idea of Christophe Keromen, participants will have to answer the following 3 questions:
- What has the Visual Management module brought you? individually ?
- What has the Visual Management module brought you? collectively ?
- What are the questions what would you like to share?
Note: the questions can be of any order and will subsequently feed the discussions.
Here are the results obtained for the part Individual :
The participants were therefore individually able to obtain:
- A better visibility overall on the activities of each
- Of the simplification
- A better priority management
- Better interactions with their colleagues
- More opportunities to collaboration
- More than serenity
Here are the results obtained for the part Collective :
The impacts perceived by the participants on the collective are:
- A better team spirit
- A better collaboration
- More than share
- More'mutual aid
- A collective awareness/celebration of its great added value
If I go back to the vision that was expressed during the Team Kick-off:
We realize that the objectives have been achieved! 🙂
Exchanges and Opening
The part questions is treated separately in the sense that it makes it possible to generate exchanges whether with the group or with the coach. In this case, the topics covered mainly revolve around:
- How can we improve the efficiency of our Stand-up meetings?
- Will we succeed in maintaining Visual Management over time?
- Is the frequency of the Stand-up meeting appropriate?
- And after ?
It was on the subject of “And after” that I took the liberty of explaining the Agile Rocket metaphor to the team. Indeed, we had launched the Visual Management module with a simple idea in mind: “ how to transform a sum of individuals into a collective that makes better decisions together?“. We didn't talk about Agility, we simply responded to a need by choosing a tool that is Visual Management. It was therefore time to take a step back and have a more global vision of all that it would be possible to accomplish together.
Thus, following the presentation of all the Agile Rocket modules, I focused on the one that comes naturally after: the Continuous Improvement module – renamed today "Improving". After having the ability to make decisions together, we realize that we act rather in reaction to the system rather than in anticipation, or in pro-action. The idea of the following module is to structure a continuous improvement approach to be able to take the next step: change the things that prevent us from being efficient and learn a protocol allowing us to develop, select and monitor improvement actions. .
I would describe the protocol of Problem Solving Workshop of SAFE, the basis used today for the “Improving” module, in a future article.
Conclusion
This article thus concludes the description of the Visual Management module (renamed “Collaborate”) put into practice on a concrete example. The photo above corresponds to one of the latest versions of the team's Visual Management.
The different workshops are now reliable enough to be reused as they are, now you can always adapt them with tools on which you are more comfortable, as long as you keep the intention! 😉
The results obtained with this team have been very positive, I had a lot of fun accompanying them and watching their progress. Now, these results are above all the fruit of a strong investment by the team in the process and of a very good, constructive and courageous state of mind.
Thus, in the space of 3 months, not to mention Scrum, or Kanban, or Agility, it was possible to create a dynamic in which everyone was a little more open to others in order to build a better future together. ! 🙂
