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I created the so-called \u201cSTATIK canvas\u201d a number of years in the past. Several folks from faraway international locations have requested me about it not too long ago. I\u2019m glad they’re utilizing this paper or some variations of it.<\/p>\n
STATIK A3 \u2013 Print on 11\u00d717.<\/p>\n
STATIK stands for the System Thinking Approach To Introducing Kanban. You apply this strategy to mannequin and perceive the enterprise setting by which some service is delivered to clients (which can be a product growth or a mission workflow, to be clear) and to design and introduce a Kanban system with the intent to stimulate this service to enhance.<\/p>\n
Mike Burrows, who wrote information to STATIK, which is Part III of his guide, Kanban from the Inside<\/em>, referred to as it Kanban\u2019s hidden gem in his convention speeches. I\u2019ve at all times maintained that the STATIK A3 should then be like an affordable plastic container for the gem. It continues to be helpful and it nonetheless works, although.<\/p>\n Now that I see folks use this paper, I\u2019d wish to make some adjustments to it and to raised talk my intent for it. Which is what this put up is about.<\/p>\n First, I wish to cease calling this factor a \u201ccanvas.\u201d It was a nasty selection of a phrase on my half. The phrase \u201ccanvas\u201d has not too long ago turn out to be meaningless as folks produced items of paper subdivided into areas to seize info and name them canvases, after the well-known Business Model Canvas. Well the Business Model Canvas is a canvas, and it defines the phrase, in my opinion. It represents probably the most intently related components, akin to buyer segments and gross sales channels to achieve them, as areas bordering one another. It makes use of geometry successfully to visually reinforce the coherence of a enterprise mannequin. Such logic is lacking from most different \u201ccanvases.\u201d With my STATIK paper it wasn\u2019t even the intention.<\/p>\n (P.S. I\u2019ve revisited my unique 2015 put up introducing this STATIK paper and located it nonetheless largely related. Except for the irritating phrase \u201ccanvas.\u201d)<\/p>\n Second, I consider there are higher causes to name this paper an A3. Technically, it matches the A3 dimension paper (or 11-by-17 inch for North Americans). There are deeper causes, in fact. There was a time in my profession once I studied and practiced A3 Thinking critically. It was my a part of my search to turn out to be simpler coach and guide. I bought good mentoring in A3 and skim unique literature on it. I spotted there have been completely different layouts of A3, however all of them had two issues in widespread. They had been all efficient at resisting the pure human tendency to leap to conclusions, akin to to vary one thing within the problematic course of whereas believing their motion would resolve that drawback. But even when we had been to use some deliberate problem-solving strategy, that will nonetheless depart us uncovered to a different tendency: believing which issues had been probably the most value fixing for the time being and leaning on acquainted, maybe ineffective methods to border them. I realized how the nice A3 designs had been efficient at resisting \u201cleaping to issues\u201d as properly.<\/p>\n One pure bias we will observe within the Kanban methodology is in fact how folks rush to attract visible Kanban boards visualizing some course of. They rush it with out understanding all of the design selections they\u2019re making implicitly alongside the best way or why they\u2019re making them. This is the \u201cleaping to conclusions\u201d that STATIK counters and that I positively need the STATIK A3 to withstand visually. The STATIK A3 additionally counters the \u201cleaping to issues\u201d bias. Two key fields happen within the prime inch of the paper. One asks you to outline the service you\u2019re attempting to enhance. If you \u201cgathered my staff to do STATIK\u201d it could cease you proper there. Another one asks, who’s the supervisor right here taking accountability for delivering providers to clients? Is this particular person within the room?<\/p>\n The remainder of the STATIK A3 format has considerably odd proportions that reinforce comparable messages. For instance, the Workflow Mapping part permits capturing a number of variations of workflows for various work merchandise varieties. When folks use STATIK A3 in varied geographical and trade contexts, they may discover completely different proportions and layouts to be simpler for a similar intent. The intent is, in fact, to not leap to options and to not leap to issues. Instead, analyze rigorously what’s going on within the service course of, what the service supplier and clients wish to enhance in it, and the way that informs varied Kanban system design selections. And solely then a few of these selections will make it onto the blurry two-dimensional projection we name the visible Kanban board.<\/p>\n