Narrative Paradigm

My personal disposition towards human narratives has been this. [Never heard of Walter Fisher until today.] 

• Every human experience is a narrative, a story to be told later.
• You see / view, remember things selectively based on your conditioning, underlying belief system, and your prejudices. And when you recall them from memory you apply the same paradigm to weave a shape out of it. 
• You are perceived by how beautifully you are able to narrate this to others - what ingredients it has, and how impactful it is and can connect with the audience / listener.
• Different people looking at / experiencing the same experience will narrate it differently  - Rashomon Effect - each a Truth on its own. 

Walter Fisher's Narrative Paradigm

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• Everything we do can be laid out as a story.
• Humans are essentially story tellers. 
• What we do and how we think is swayed by history, biography, culture, character. 
• Rationality is determined by -- 
• a. Narrative probability: coherence of narrative
• b. Narrative fidelity: whether the story rings true with what we already know to be true.
• We continually choose stories that we keep company with. And these stories are constantly changing.
• Narratives are selective realities. We choose what we want to believe (influenced by ext factors).

Best examples of selective narrative paradigm as a selective reality is Media.

Lean Coffee

Lean Coffee - Facilitator's Guide
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https://medium.com/agile-outside-the-box/lean-coffee-facilitator-s-guide-d79d9f13d0a9

Lean coffee format
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1. Set Up (To Do, In Progress, Done)
2. Collect Ideas
3. One sentence introduction of the topic
4. Dot vote
5. Prioritize
6. Discuss
- Time box ( 5 minutes)
- Vote (next item or 2 more minutes)

Excerpt from Lean Product Management - Mangalam Nandakumar

• "The engineering that went into the honeycomb contributes to a specific way of life that is suited to the bees. It is important to realize that the first bees didn't initially build wax hexagonal tubes. They iterated over many generations and responded to feedback from nature (which is often harsh and can result in extinction). Bees have pivoted to this model and it seems to have worked rather well for them."
•  "Engineering in isolation adds no business value".
• "Business functions acting in isolation without the context of business outcomes or creating value to the customer are not sustainable".
• What works for bees doesn't / may not work for ants.
• On why delivering value is important--
• "By carrying over software delivery frameworks of meeting timelines, budgets, and customer satisfaction, we are in a way restricting ourselves to looking at outputs instead of outcomes."
• "Product management shouldn't be about measuring effort or productivity; it isn't about measuring output"
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DIY Sprints (Design Sprint)

Courtesy: Jake Knapp

• Monday: Map out the problem and pick out an important place to focus.
• Tuesday: Sketch competing solutions on paper
• Wednesday: Make difficult decisions, turn ideas into testable hypotheses
• Thursday: Hammer out a realistic prototype
• Friday: Test with real human beings

Japanese Lean Terminology

Chaku Chaku

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Chaku chaku is an efficient style of production in which all the machines needed to make a part are situated in the correct sequence very close together.

The operator simply loads a part and moves on to the next operation. Each machine performs a different stage of production, such as turning, drilling, cleaning, testing or sandblasting.

Example...

Gemba

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Gemba walk is an essential part of lean management philosophy. Gemba is the factory floor where the actual value is produced. The philosophy behind Gemba is problems in business process or production become visible / best improvements come from by actually "visiting the place where value is created" -- Go and See the work as it is being produced. It encourages communication, transparency and trust. Shouldn't be employed to point of flaws of employees.

Hanedashi [Lean Manufacturing]

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Device or means of automatic unload of the work piece from one operation or process, providing the proper state for the next work piece to be loaded. Automatic unloading and orientation for the next process is essential for a “Chaku-Chaku” line.

Hansei 

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Reflection / self reflection. Similar to retrospective / post-mortem, review. Look at yourself in the mirror.