CHAPTER 4

GET READY TO PRACTICE

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One of the best places to start Improvement Kata practice is where you work, whether or not you have committed leaders above you. There are real work processes that you can improve there, and persons who can coach one another. Establish some competence with the pattern and practice routines of the Improvement Kata at your workplace, and then you can take your new skills wherever you want.

This short chapter recommends what you should organize in advance for your initial practice.

Select the Learner, Coach, and Second Coach

The coach is usually the learner’s manager, although peer coaching works too. The coach should ...

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