Accelerator list
…any endeavor.
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Note that the list must be ordered since it affects a complex system. In a complex system, small changes can have unprecedented impact and massive changes can have little or no impact. In other words, implementing the top item from the accelerator list will change its order.
Therefore:
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Start the kaizen and evaluate it until you decide that either
- it proves to have increased the velocity (by 5% or more); or
- you targeted the wrong accelerator.
In either case, start the next kaizen from the top of the (probably changed) kaizen list.
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Jeff Sutherland's slide on moving from where you are now to where you want to go (slow scrum or speed scrum) has one state mentioning “Late, Upset, Pressure, Unhappy”. Martien's thought was “Never, Upset, Tension, and Sour” or ‘NUTS’ for short.
In Sutherland's experience, this has generated a ten percent average increase sprint to sprint for two years running.
When you are starting to plateau, do some root cause analysis with the a3 solver on Template:Japanes. Even after a 400% increase you still can do better, according to Sutherland.