Plus-Delta

Leadership Team Plus-Delta

Plus: Collaboratively crafted solid mission statement; High quality conversations; Improved time management; Meeting facilitator was very well prepared. Delta: Encourage broader participation by others in the group; Share the meeting facilitation duties.

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Lean Workshop Plus-Delta

Plus: Good facility; Rhythm and balance of workshop; Real world examples; Activities and simulations; Having two people facilitate the workshop; Good high level look at Lean; Good amount of material; Built trust and understanding among the project team. Delta: Obtain 100% attendance by all invited; Provide more advance information on the purpose and content of

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Leadership Group Plus-Delta

Plus: Clarified role of the leadership group; Quality of conversation by all participants; New members of the group are participating fully. Delta: Improve ability to manage agenda and time; Develop actionable steps by end of meeting; Determine if people unable to participate regularly should be group members.

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Making the Plus-Delta Practice Work

The Plus-Delta is the practice of reflecting on experiences that added value to an event (pluses), and experiences that could have added value to that event but were missing (deltas). We focus on deltas as opposed to “negatives” as we are looking for an improvement that can be made and not a criticism. The practice

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VeloSano 2016 Reflections

We advocate Plus-Delta sessions after meetings as a helpful way to learn because it is a type of reflection designed to improve future meetings. But Plus-Deltas are also helpful for events other than meetings. Doing something out of the ordinary is always a good opportunity for reflection. Thanks to some generous sponsors I had the

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Plus-Delta from NE Ohio’s Team Design Phase Coordination Meeting

Just catching up with this team, and have Plus-Delta observations from the last week and this week. Last Week Plus: People are participating in meetings that they normally are not able to on most projects; The team is getting better at using Lean tools. Delta: Manage meeting to finish on time. This Week Plus: Meeting finished on time.

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