Toyota Kata – Kata School Midwest

Noticing the unexpected

This blog is about a starter-kata for daily counting of the results that do not match your expectations about various events. It is about clicking a mechanical counter when something happened that is different from what I expected. Kata Coach Gemma Jones published more detailed instructions in LinkedIn here. Below is a Run Chart fromContinue reading “Noticing the unexpected”

Virtual Kata in Classroom (vKiC-1)

I coach IT teams to grow by helping them adopt Toyota Kata to realize various Directions. The Improvement Kata provides me as a coach a scientific thinking pattern to help teams in their journey. KiC-1 as described in katatogrow.com is a simulation activity for teams to practice Improvement Kata. This week, I facilitated a virtualContinue reading “Virtual Kata in Classroom (vKiC-1)”