On November 11, at this year’s Lean Kanban Central Europe Conference in Hamburg, the Lean Forecasting expert Troy Magennis and the Lean Kanban expert Klaus Leopold will both hold a session together called “Blockades – Treasures of Improvement”. Both of these Brickell Key Award prize winners will put together their ideas and bring about a completely new view towards the handling of blockades in our everyday work lives. And those who know these two would surely agree that this will also be one funny session?
If you have already worked with LEANability, you already know the various risk clustering methods for improving your working practices: blocker, defect, lead times, conscious process violations, and so on. But, is there something new to this? Troy hits the nail on the head with the following statement:
“We are going to show more complex blocker analysis based on simulation. By simulating the blockers in a software tool that hypothetically completed a project 1000’s of times, we can see the calendar and cost impact with and without each blocker. This gives us a list of blockers and their cost of NOT fixing. We should fix ALL blockers where their impact is greater than the cost to fix. Some blockers are not worth solving.”
In this manner, we get an economical expression in the form of Euros as to which blocker clusters affect our everyday work in which way. And, the point to all of this is to, of course, only solve the blockades whose cost of resolution is lower than the actual effect. Smart, don’t you think?
Ben Linders wrote the article „Use your blockades to sustainably improve“ for InfoQ in which he gives the reader an overview concerning Blocker Clustering and for which he also interviewed Klaus & Troy.
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