1. 04 | Kanban | Induce Pain
Steven Borg | Co-founder & Strategist, Northwest Cadence
Cheryl Hammond | ALM Consultant, Northwest Cadence

2. Induce Pain | Overview
If it doesn’t hurt, you aren’t changing enough

3. Cultural component What you’re doing wrong How to get it right
Shying away from painful findings
Reverting to old habits
Avoiding risk
Coddling uncooperative people
Lean into the pain
Ignore the naysayers
Feed the eagles
Reward failure if it yields learning

4. Culture flag
In a historically command-and-control culture, teams might not know how to take ownership and may not believe they can make meaningful change.

5. Limit WIP to Create Pain
Limit WIP to force collaboration
Limit WIP to eliminate queues
Limit WIP to expose additional bottlenecks

6. Create Pain to Realize Change
Limiting WIP is proven to reduce cycle time
Isn’t that what you want a new process for?
Work in process
Cycle time