Summary
In this chapter, we looked at how value streams can follow the Third Way by adopting continuous learning and experimentation. We saw how this starts by looking at the journey organizations take to become learning organizations. They hone their learning through the five disciplines of personal mastery, mental models, shared vision, team learning, and ultimately, systems thinking.
An approach for learning organizations to move toward their shared vision is to follow the Improvement Kata. In the Improvement Kata, after the desired future state is determined, the current state is identified. The value stream then identifies a target and an experiment to run. The experiment is run in a PDCA cycle, and the learning is applied to see if the value stream is closer or farther from the desired future state.
A Lean Improvement Cycle or a PDCA cycle is used in the Improvement Kata as the framework for experimentation. The value stream plans the experiment, runs through the experiment...
