Her specialty is Lean Kanban for professional services including functional departments like marketing, finance, procurement and administration. She also optimises Project Management Office (PMO) delivery and IT operations.

Becci combines Lean practices she has found to be most effective for service delivery such as Lean Kanban, Continuous Improvement (aka: Kata) and Systems Thinking.

When combining these ways of working called Kanban Accelerated Delivery, Becci has obtained results of 15% to 40% uplift in productivity with higher quality within six months.

Books Becci has read specific to Lean:

• Essential Kanban by David Anderson
• Kanban from the Inside by Mike Burrows
• Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business by David Anderson
• Stop Starting, Start Finishing! By Arne Roock
• The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Reinertsen
• Lean from the Trenches: Managing Large-Scale Project with Kanban by Henrik Kniberg
• Kanban in action by Marcus Hammarberg and Joakim Sunden
• The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr & George Spafford
• Beyond the Pheonix Project by Gene Kim and John Willis
• Managing to Learn by John Shook
• The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
• Learning to See by Mike Rother and John Shook
• The Work of Management: A Daily Path to Sustainable Improvement by Jim Lancaster
• The Toyota Way by Jeffrey K. Liker
• The Machine that Changed the World by James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones and Daniel Roos
• Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results by Mike Rother
• Making Work Visible: Exposing time theft to optimize work and flow by Dominica DeGrandis
• Developing Lean Leaders at all Levels: A Practical Guide by Jeffrey K. Liker
• The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox
• Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation by James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones
• Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale by Jez Humble, Joanne Molesky and Barry O’Reilly

Lean courses Becci has attended:

• Kanban Systems Design & Kanban Management Foundations Practitioner (KMP1), Lean Kanban University
• Kanban Management Professional (KMP2), Lean Kanban University
• Certified Lean Change Agent Practitioner, Lean Change Management Association
• Playing Lean 2 Game Master facilitator for Lean Start-up
• Toyota Kata (Lean Continuous Improvement Coaching), TWI Institute
• Kata Manufacturing Simulation, TWI Institute

Contact Becci to discuss your needs today.

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I said I would be happy to, but because I normally charge thousands of dollars to host a Playing Lean Workshop (See details here) I wanted people to value my contribution also.  Meetups are about uplifting the local community, but that doesn’t mean we also can’t take the opportunity to give someone else a hand up (instead of a hand out).

So we charged $10 per person to play the board game about start-ups and at the same time could help women in developing countries to start their own business and get their family out of poverty through a not-for-profit microfinance Opportunity International.  It has only been 24 hours since the meetup was announced and we are already half full, so it is sure to be a sell out.

Here’s a short video about how women entrepreneurs in developing countries are taking small loans to start a business to feed their family and send their children to school, breaking the cycle of poverty.

This is what we wrote in our meetup, to explain to people that it would be by donation. Perhaps it can inspire you to offer something you’re good at for your charity.

Please Contact Becci to organise another charity fundraiser Playing Lean.

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It is The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, first published in 2011.

These principles in the Lean Startup can be applied by new businesses that are just starting out, but equally into the processes or ways of working for established enterprises doing new product or service development.

Check out this 7 minute video that intros The Lean Startup.

Too busy to ready the book?  No worries! Listen to it on your phone
You can buy The Lean Startup book as PDF, ePUB for electronic readers or paper format.  But if you’re time poor, try starting with the audio book.

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Get the facts from the author that started it all, Dan Jones of the Lean Enterprise Academy and co-author of the books The Machine that Changed the World and Lean Thinking describes lean thinking in this six minute video.

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Eric Ries, Author, The Lean Startup

In 2011 Eric Ries released a book called The Lean Startup.  It taught us a more effective way of working using a product/service development process that meets customer needs and maximises a business’ return on investment.

The fastest way to learn these powerful principles of The Lean Startup is to play the board game Playing Lean.  It’s an interactive simulation using a board game where you compete to launch and grow an online product and build market share.  Discover how to make resource allocation decisions to generate sales, conduct experiments and build your product to be the first to reach the mass market.

Who will Benefit?
This workshop is ideal for people in roles that create new products and services plus those who influence a business’ ways of working for either projects or Business As Usual (BAU) operational.  Job roles typically include:

• Product Owners
• Product Managers
• Product General Managers
• Product Developers
• UX & CX Designers
• Agile Project Managers
• Agile Delivery Manager
• Agile Coaches
• Scrum Masters
• Marketing Operations
• Project Management Office (PMO) leaders
• Transformation Managers/Directors

Typical Playing Lean Startup Workshop Agenda

In this workshop, Becci uses the triple reinforcement to maximise learning.
..  She teaches The Lean Startup principles (See One)
.. we reinforce these by applying the Lean Startup practices by playing the game (Do One)
.. we create a customised action plan to start applying these practices and teaching others the improvement to ways of working and new product development processes (Teach One)

The typical agenda is:

• Introductions – facilitator learns participants’ expectations and experience with Lean Startup and product development by experimentation
• Fundamentals of Lean Startup – facilitator teaches the fundamental Lean Startup principles (the condensed highlights of the book)
• Rules of Playing Lean – participants get into teams and learn the rules of the game
• Let’s Play – participants play with the facilitator highlighting key learnings along the way
• Retrospective – participants share what they learned, what worked and what didn’t and why
• Action Plan – together we create an action plan for participants to return to work and change our ways of working to incorporate the key practices
• Wrap Up & Close

Playing Lean Startup Workshop Details
Minimum: 4 participants
Maximum: 12 participants
Workshop Duration: 3.5 – 4.5 hours, depending on whether participants have read The Lean Startup book previously or have applied any of the practices.

Becci is a certified Playing Lean Game Master facilitator.  She brings experience having applied The Lean Startup process with experimentation into transformations to operational ways of working.

Book your Playing Lean Startup Workshop, Contact Becci today.

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