Thanks to Sanjeev Raman for inviting me up to Portland Agile & Scrum Meetup Group.  My topic was “The Seven Wastes”, also known as Type II Muda (Wastes of Activity).  There’s a spot of Lean for you!

The hosts, ISITE Design, kindly recorded the session.  They set it up to record the laptop I was using, so as I ran PowerPoint in presenter mode, you get to see the “cheat sheet” side of the presentation.  The recording stopped as we went into a live exercise.

Here it is:

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIFMeNTdh8k]

The exercise was started during the talk, with people making notes on sticky-notes of aspects of their working world that they could now see qualified as waste.  We then had everyone swarm and group their notes, cross referencing them with Agile practices that could handle these wastes.

We also found that folks gained a new appreciation of why Agile practices work so well.

I gave an extra mini-talk afterwards, “How to Sell Agile to the Bean-Counters” but that is a story for another day.