SLAKK
What is SLAKK?
SLAKK is a hybrid business methodology for companies whose products and services are reliant on technology. SLAKK is an acronym that stands for Scrum, Lean, Agile, Kanban and Kaizen. After years of working with the SLAKK methodologies, we were able to adapt the values, principles and practices from each of them to meet the needs of your business.
How it started
For years, we’ve been on a quest to find the perfect business framework and methodology. Each path we went down revealed the advantages and disadvantages that led to one conclusion: there is no single methodology to fill all business needs. But as we worked through the methodologies, we discovered that many of the principles, values and practices overlap and align. From these realizations, we created SLAKK.
The Core
We refer to the six principles that are most common to all of these techniques as “The Core”. The Core is illustrated below. Click on the concepts below to see how each of these methodologies relate to each other.
Kaizen
Principles
Be Transparent
Principles
Know Your Customer
Means "Continuous Improvement"
Principles
Go to Gemba
Principles
Empower People
Kanban
Values
Transparency
Values
Customer Focus
Principles
Agree to Pursue Incremental, Evolutionary Change
Values
Respect
Principles
Respect the Current Process, Roles & Responsibilities
Practices
Visualize the Workflow
Values
Leadership
Principles
Encourage Acts of Leadership at All Levels
Scrum
Values
Openness
Practices
Sprint Retrospective
Values
Respect
Lean
Practices
Identify Customer Value
Values
Optimize the whole
Practices
Seek Perfection
Practices
Map Value Stream
Agile
Values
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Principles
Satisfy the customer with early and continuous delivery of valuable software
Principles
At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly
Principles
The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams