Daily Win for the Day in the Office Standup
Each office team member arrives at the morning meeting with one defined win so priorities and progress are visible.
- Creator
TheAMEConnect- Improvement date
- June 16, 2024
- Company
Southwest Steel Buildings- Wastes
Office work is harder to measure than production output, so it is unclear how anyone is winning during the day and priorities drift or stall while people wait for direction.
The team asks everyone to come to the morning meeting prepared with a defined win for the day. It does not have to be huge, just a concrete goal that lets a person go home feeling they accomplished something measurable.
Make invisible knowledge work visible by defining a clear, shared target each day.
What is a Daily Win for the Day in the Office Standup?
A win for the day is a single, concrete goal each office team member commits to at the morning standup. Unlike production, where a load board shows the day's output, office work often lacks an obvious finish line, so this practice creates one.
Each person states their win out loud in the meeting. The win can be small. The point is that it is specific enough to know at day's end whether it was achieved.
Because wins are shared in the group, everyone sees what others are prioritizing. This turns individual intentions into visible, reusable knowledge the whole team can align around.
Why it works
Stating a win out loud converts private plans into shared, visible priorities the team can reuse and check against.
- Makes each person's focus visible so others can align and avoid duplicated effort.
- Gives office work a measurable target, the way a production load board does for the floor.
- Mistake-proofs the day by surfacing unclear or conflicting priorities before work starts.
- Builds a shared record of what good daily progress looks like for the team to model.
How to create this idea
- 1Set the expectation
Ask everyone to arrive at the morning meeting already knowing their win for the day.
- 2Go around the room
Have each person state their one win out loud so the whole team hears it.
- 3Keep wins concrete
A win does not have to be huge, but it must be specific enough to verify at the end of the day.
- 4Tie it to fulfillment
Frame the win as what lets a person go home today feeling they accomplished something.
- 5Review progress
Check against stated wins in the next standup so priorities stay clear and measurable.
Best used when
- office teams
- hard-to-measure work
- daily standups
Less useful when
- clear output metrics exist
- solo work only
Tags
- Problem
- unclear prioritieswaitinghard to measure
- Lean methods
- daily standupvisual managementgoal setting
- Application
- office teamsknowledge work
Captured from TheAMEConnect at Southwest Steel Buildings in the video "AME 2 Second Lean Tour: Southwest Steel Buildings", at 00:05:45. On Lean Toolbox. Watch the original video on YouTube ↗
