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Framework
Improvement Kata
A four-step pattern for getting better at anything. Understand the direction. Grasp the current condition. Set the next target condition. Run experiments toward it.
How to use it. Use it when "we should improve" keeps not happening. The kata makes improvement small, regular, and concrete. What matters is the daily rhythm of trying, observing, and adjusting.
How it gets misused. Treated as a planning method. The kata is a practice: a way of working, repeated until it becomes habit. Reading about it changes nothing. Doing it daily for three months is what changes things.
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Framework
Deming's System of Profound Knowledge
Four ways of looking at a problem that work together: seeing it as a system, understanding variation, asking how we know what we know, and paying attention to people.
- Principle Feedback Loops Every system improves at the rate of its slowest feedback loop. Shorten the loops between action and outcome.
- Pattern Build-Measure-Learn Build the smallest thing that tests your idea. Measure what happens. Learn what to do next.
Clusters
- The Improvement cluster - How systems get better over time.