Chapter 5. Day 12 – Choosing the Roles and Meetings You Need
You are now close to your first day of Kanban. The only thing left to do is choose the right roles and meetings to adopt, in order to achieve a smooth application of Kanban. This could be a very short chapter, as Kanban does not prescribe any roles or meetings. It's even explicitly written in Kanban's foundational principles that you should initially not change the way of working or the roles.
Kanban's foundational principles are:
Start with what you do now
Agree to pursue evolutionary change
Initially, respect current roles, responsibilities, and job titles
Encourage acts of leadership at all levels
The reason for not changing is to minimize the risk of getting drawbacks in the middle of the change process.
Change in performance during a change process
According to Virginia Satir's change process model, every change in the organization may even be expected to result in a drop in performance. The biggest risk is that some high manager...
