Take Value Stream Mapping Beyond Process Improvements
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Let's be Fwends #143:
Take Value Stream Mapping Beyond Process Improvements
What’s scarce is trust, connection, and surprise. These are three elements in the work of a successful artist.
~ Seth Godin
Hi, and welcome to issue 143 of Let's be Fwends. Today, I want to introduce you to (unexpected?) side effects of value stream mapping, share some irony about scientific rigour, and also some good news for coffee drinkers (it's basically medicine).
Finally, we observe an octopus throwing punches.
The Added Benefits of Value Stream Mapping
Value stream mappings are great. I love them. Its not often that you see a bunch of people starting to get embarrassed about how they do work.
Just kidding. That's not what you're supposed to do as a facilitator. The cool thing about value stream mapping is that it helps you to really trim down on our processes and make work so much smoother.
But the real magic is what it can do to the prevalent mindset in the organisation. With a properly conducted value stream mapping, a group of people can completely shift the way they are thinking about the work and how they perform it.
Well, This is Embarrassing (or not)
Who would have seen that coming?
Scientific rigour proponents retract a paper about the benefits of scientific rigour because it ... lacks scientific rigour?
Plot twist: This is probably as scientifically rigorous as it might get.
3 Cups of Coffee per Day
200 to 300mg of caffeine is good for you. That's about three cups. That's all I needed to hear.
Octopus Keeping the Social Structure Intact (and Fair)
Octopuses seem to like to hunt in gangs. But not with other octopuses. Instead, they recruit different fish to form a mixed hunting group that starts moving around in a coordinated way to find food. And they make sure that everyone is doing their part :
“If the group is very still and everyone is around the octopus, it starts punching, but if the group is moving along the habitat, this means that they’re looking for prey, so the octopus is happy. It doesn’t punch anyone.”
Click on the link above to see a video of a punching octopus in action.
That's it for this edition of Let's be Fwends. Thank the universe that octopuses don't have access to caffeine. Imagine what they would punch if they did. 🦑
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