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Waste Stops Flow<\/h3>\n

Imagine you have a pipe and it can deliver a litre of water a minute to a tank. Now, imagine if that pipe gets hole in it and then gets blocked up, perhaps a kink or two. All of this means that you are no longer getting a litre of minute to your tank and you now have to find the leaks, take time and effort to unblock and unkink the pipe and perhaps even carry the water by hand from source to the tank.<\/p>\n

This is the effect waste has on your ability to deliver. It takes away capacity and makes it more expensive and more time consuming to things. All of that is effort you could be using to deliver value to your customer. Yet not may visualisations or chanson boards even show this wasted effort. If you can\u2019t see it, you won\u2019t do anything about it.<\/p>\n

How much time does a story sit waiting on other people, or going back for clarification ?<\/p>\n

How much time of your time is spent on defects (which is wasted effort) ?<\/p>\n

Where exactly is your capacity being spent ?<\/p>\n

#WarOnWaste<\/p>\n

CHALLENGE YOURSELVES<\/h2>\n

Spend 15 minutes at your next stand up taking a pink sticky and placing it on all work that is waiting or stuck. You can also create a card with a NO ENTRY sign on it, or anything that grabs the eye. The trick is to get an idea of where your work isn\u2019t flowing in 21 seconds.<\/p>\n

Make space on the card to have the following information:<\/p>\n

\u2013 The date it stopped flowing<\/p>\n

\u2013 Why it is stuck<\/p>\n

\u2013 Who is resolving it<\/p>\n

\u2013 Space to mark with an x the number of days it has been stuck (like prisoners do on their walls).<\/p>\n

When it gets unstuck move the blocker card to its own section so you can start to gather information on how much of your time is spend with waste and where that time is going. This information then allows you to start to create counter measures to take the waste out of the system.<\/p>\n

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