Retrospectives on steriods - Toyota Kata

Building on the power of habits, Toyota Kata will help you build a daily continuous learning and improvement culture - a kaizen culture.

Håkan Forss

Oct 06, 2015 • 12 min read

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Continuous Improvement

Retrospective

Business Agility

Kaizen

Toyota Production System (TPS)

Summary

Lean coach Hakan Forss makes an interesting presentation on Restrospective on steroids basing Toyota Kata citing that continuous learning leads to real-time improvements. We see that Kata is the process of synthesizing thoughts and behavior in skillful actions for continuous learning and improvements and the strategy entails identifying the current condition, setting the target condition, facing the challenge, and achieving the vision. view the slides to learn more about Kata.

Takeaways

For Kata improvements to be achieved there are two phases, the planning phase, and the executive phase. The helps you understand the direction that the project wants to take, grasp the current direction, and set the next target condition. While the latter is the key to iterating towards the target condition.
Kata is the process of synthesizing thoughts and behavior in skillful actions for continuous learning and improvements.
The Kata strategy entails identifying the current condition, setting the target condition, facing the challenge, and achieving the vision.