Solutions, not Frameworks

There is no shortage of tools that promises to help your team deliver product and service fast and reduce waste, from new and established tools like Lean and waterfall to new ones that come out all the time, someone even promises that by using these tools and this tools alone you can take care of all you productivity issues and you will be to get you team to deliver more even if they don't work more hours, you can often see this in there promotion material with the number of hours you will save by using there process. But what you need is a new methodology, framework, tool, or process, what you need is to get the job done, and if you can get that without adding any more complexity to your workflow all the better. And this is not a sentiment that is unique to the people doing the job, it is a commonly held belief among the people how what the work to be faster, easier, cheaper, and better, in perfect work, we will need any on tools, the team will self-managed and with each person knowing what they have to do, why they are doing it, and how to do it, and this is our ultimate goal.

How?

we start with what is already there.

In the understanding phase of our work process, our aim is not only to get a better grasp of the problem but also to gather as much information about the team itself as possible. The result of this is a comprehensive map of what the team is capable of, what its members feel comfortable doing, and how far outside this comfort zone we can stretch them without breaking their flow. We do that because we know that while change is critical to be able to evolve, it is hard and often met with a lot of resistance. So, if we can do the result using tools that the team is already familiar with, or even already uses somehow, we will.

We build our process, in a way that the tools comfort the team, we do just drop a bunch of tools off the team and ask them to learn how to work with them.

Each team is unique

In our years of experience helping teams of all sizes, small and large, maturity, people that work together for a year or a new group that just got together, working in deferent structure, small companies/startup or huge multinational group. We learn and use a considerable number of management tools out there. Some prefer the label methodology, some frameworks, some even said that they are not tools for management, even if when peruse the tools supporting material and you start using it you figure that is just management under a new name. But our chef discovery is that no matter how to process heavy to lightweight tools, and no matter what is called, it will never just work outside the box for everyone, in fact, we never find a combo tool/teamwork without tweaking, and adjustment that work for a team/tool combo will work for another team/tool combo, even if you change just one side of the equation, same team deferent tools or deferent team same tool. Each team is unique and requires a unique process that takes full advantage of its strength while mitigating I weakness and we at Shems can build the right one for your teams.