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<description><![CDATA[Lean management offers a different way to approach the running of a team or organization. With increased competition and faster responses essential to meet customer demand, new approaches to management are required to meet those needs. To understand Lean, the first step if to know exactly what it is. What is Lean? At the heart ... <a href="https://liviumesesan.ro/2020/07/23/lean-what-why-how/" class="more-link text-uppercase small">Continue Reading </a>
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Lean management offers a different way to approach the running of a
team or organization. With increased competition and faster responses
essential to meet customer demand, new approaches to management are
required to meet those needs. To understand Lean, the first step if to
know exactly what it is.
What is Lean?
At the heart of Lean is the idea of maximizing customer value while
minimizing waste. To accomplish this, Lean encourages a team or
organization to focus on the flow of a products through the
organization, rather than how it interacts with each individual part of
the organization, technology or other resource that traditional
management encourages.
A big part of Lean is the concept of continual improvement, where a
team or organization understand that however efficient they are, new
inefficiencies can be uncovered and removed, the key to continually look
for those inefficiencies.
Why use Lean?
The idea of removing waste while adding customer value covers both
cost reduction and improved quality, and for any manager both are
desirable. However, the benefits of Lean are not just in those outcomes,
the entire approach brings with it a change in focus. With teams
dedicated to adding value, it is a positive change that can have a
significant impact on productivity and improve overall morale of any
team or larger workforce too.
In addition, eliminating waste allows for a better use of resources,
reducing costs and increasing profitability. The positive effects of
lean within a team or organization are shown to bring organization-wide
benefits to those who adopt this approach.
How does Lean achieve this?
Lean focuses on adding value and removing waste, and it does this through a five-step approach.
<ul><li>Identify Value – At the heart of lean is the idea of adding customer
value. The first step is therefore to identify the value proposition
for the customer of a given product and establish how that can be
improved. Here, we also identify types of waste found within the system
to enable a team to take measures to remove it.</li></ul>
<ul><li>Map Value Stream – Visualise the path to the customer so that
processes that addd value, and those that are waste, can be clearly
identified. This can be done using Kanban boards or other visual mapping
solutions.</li><li>Create the Flow – Flow is at the core of the entire Lean concept,
with the aim to create a smooth flow from beginning to the end of any
process. Waiting is a waste process within Lean, and areas that create
bottlenecks, such as delays for external stakeholders or through lack of
capacity for instance, should be minimized.</li><li>Establish Pull – The most efficient way to allocate resources is to
only have them used when work is available. In lean, this is achieved
with the pull system. Tasks are stored in a queue, and team members will
go to the queue and take the next task as the finish a previous one.
That is, new work is taken on as old work is complete.</li><li>Continual Improvement – Lean management requires us to seek
continual improvement in processes. By focusing on the activities that
generate the most value and removing waste activities as they are
identified, and this requires leaders to inspire teams to seek out those
areas of improvement to succeed.</li></ul>
Lean offers many benefits, but also brings challenges. Leaders need
to inspire teams both in terms of value focus, but in particular
continual improvement to obtain the most from the Lean Principles. This
requires new thinking for leadership, allowing team members to take
ownership of their tasks and with it the responsibility for improvement.
Micromanaging every task and process will hinder Lean processes,
something leaders often need to work on.
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<title>I’m now a Scrum Trainer, the Agile journey goes on…</title>
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<description><![CDATA[On October 29th, 2019, I had the honor and privilege to become a Scrum Trainer (ST), getting my certificate from Dr. Jeff Sutherland, the co-creator of Scrum Framework at Scrum Inc Headquarters in Boston. This is a major step in my life and my professional career and allows me to bring the true Scrum to ... <a href="https://liviumesesan.ro/2020/07/23/scrum-trainer-the-agile-journey-goes-on/" class="more-link text-uppercase small">Continue Reading </a>
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On October 29th, 2019, I had the honor and privilege to become a Scrum Trainer (ST), getting my certificate from Dr. Jeff Sutherland, the co-creator of Scrum Framework at Scrum Inc Headquarters in Boston. This is a major step in my life and my professional career and allows me to bring the true Scrum to communities that I work with, by providing Scrum Master (SM) and Scrum Product Owner (SPO) Workshops.
It has been more than ten years since I first acknowledged the Scrum and Agile mindset. For me, that moment changed my life, but I didn’t know it at the time. Later on, I was lucky enough to get involved in one of the hardest projects I have ever been involved in, as a Project Director. All stakeholders told me that there was nothing to do but accept that the project was a failure and canceling the project would be the best thing to do, saving as much as I could of the company’s money. But because I saw the value that the product could bring to the company, I didn’t want to give up, at least not without giving it a try first.
So, I managed to get three months’ extension approval though I knew all my managers were thinking, “your days here are numbered”. In those three months, I was blessed to work with the best team ever. They agreed on everything that I came up with because they all believed in the product. 
Long story short, we started using Scrum and in the first month, we already had a working product. It wasn’t perfect, but it worked, and though we didn’t follow the upfront “plan”, we concentrated on what was more important to organization and we delivered that. At the end of those three months we had a big part of the product done. And because the product was actually a platform to build other products on, the company had already started to use the platform. It was a success and I can say that even today the company continues to deliver products based on that platform.
Later, I was invited by the management to help other teams from that
organization to become Agile and to do Scrum. That was the moment when I
realized Agile changed my life for the better and my wish now is to
spread that feeling to as many people as possible. 
My passion is my mission, which is to help others uncover better ways
of doing what they do, by providing a self-learning environment at my
workshops, so everyone can assess as much as they need. It is not about
me teaching, it is more about participants tasting and experimenting
what it means to be Agile and how to use Scrum. 
From the moment I found out about Agile and up to today, it has been a
great journey for me, and I wasn’t alone. Because being Agile means to
support others in their journey, I also had the privilege to be
supported by great people:
<ul><li>Dr. Jeff Sutherland, co -creator of Scrum, who had the patience to answer all my questions and allowed me to discover what Scrum stands for.</li><li>Peter Stevens, who constantly challenged me, which allowed me to learn and actually believe that I can fly over the bar.</li><li>Cherrie Silas, who guided me to discover myself, to forget about climbing the ladder and to take the escalator instead.</li><li>Jessica Larsen, Heather Timm, and all my colleagues at Scrum Inc who made the Scrum Training program and guided me to this moment.</li><li>Tobias Mayer, who had a different kind of voice in the Agile community.</li><li>Evelyn Tian, who provided me with the knowledge and the focus to became a trainer.</li><li>Scrum Ambassadors Group, World Agility Forum Committee, Personal Agility Group, my fellow trainers from the first Scrum Train the Trainer cohort, The Agile Talks Timisoara Community, and all my Agile and Scrum community friends and students that share their experience with me and allow me to be part of their journey</li><li>My family, especially my wife and my two little girls that support me and remind me to smile every day.</li></ul>
For all that I mention above and for the rest that I didn’t, I lean
in front of you, and I thank you very much, for helping me during my
voyage and for being a part of my Agile and Scrum family.
<blockquote class="wp-block-quote">“True friends challenge us and help us to be faithful on our journey” – Pope Benedict XVI</blockquote>
Looking forward to continuing this great journey!
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