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Lean Updates
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What is Lean Updates?
Lean Updates is a card from the Team Tactics deck by Pip Decks.
Fostering a culture of sharing regularly can be tough, but it’s vitally important to create efficient, motivated teams. By sharing bite-sized updates in an open forum, you encourage everyone to contribute in a way that becomes habitual. And over time you can look back at the progress you’ve all made.
Works well with Agile Comms and Lean Presentations.
When to use Lean Updates
- Rapid team growth leading to communication breakdowns
- Need for improved cross-functional team alignment
- Desire to reduce meeting times while keeping everyone informed
- Challenges in tracking project progress without micromanaging
- Onboarding new team members efficiently
How to use Lean Updates
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Create this table in a shared spreadsheet:
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Set a timer for 5 minutes. Ask people to update the first three columns next to their name.
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Give people another 5 minutes to read through everyone’s answers. Ask the group to write any questions they have in the fourth column, such as: is somebody in my team working on this? Do I have information that may not be known? Is there anybody else who should know about this?
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Go through the questions together as a group. Assign any actions with Who, What, When.
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Use Agile Comms or Lean Presentations to share any updates that need to go further.
Tips:
- Use a new spreadsheet tab for each week.
- Add a tab to describe each team’s focus.
- Use this spreadsheet to help onboard new starters.
