Zack Ayers
Scrum Master
Excella
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Zack is an experienced Agile Practitioner at Excella, an IT consulting firm based in Arlington, VA. He currently serves a team responsible for modernizing a legacy application within USCIS. He's a champion of continuous improvement and you'll always find his team experimenting with ways to improve how they work together.
Prior to joining Excella, Zack worked as a UI/UX Developer at a Cstraight Media, a small digital agency. He joined Excella as a UX Designer, but transitioned into a Scrum Master role once he realized the opportunity to coach teams to see the impact of living out the statement that "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts."
Outside of work, Zack is the head men's varsity basketball coach at Dominion Christian School in Reston, VA, as well as the director of Centreville Upward Sports located in Centreville, VA.
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Andon Cords in Development Teams: Our Experience of Driving Continuous Learning through a Culture of Experimentation
Zack AyersScrum MasterExcella
Joshua CohenSenior Software DeveloperExcellaschedule 7 months ago
45 Mins
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Beginner
Summary
In this session, you’ll learn about one team’s struggle to improve collaboration and how they sought to shorten cycle time by carefully crafting an experiment with an Andon Cord. The Andon Cord is a Toyota innovation designed to empower front-line employees to recognize issues, initiate a stoppage of work, and work together as a team to quickly identify a path forward. The emergency cable strung above assembly lines became a symbol of the Toyota Way, and has widely been copied throughout the auto industry and beyond.
You’ll be introduced to metrics that show a surprising correlation between collaboration through Andon Cord pulls and Cycle Time!
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