Las Vegas 2019

Andon Cords in Development Teams - Driving Continuous Learning

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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Zack Ayers

Scrum Master, Excella

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Joshua Cohen

Sr. Developer, Excella