A short and small helper for Toyota Kata practitioners
It contains the Coaching Kata 5Q card, plus (possibly) more things and information. Content to be improved and updated from time to time.
See file SECURITY.md for notes and updates related to security issues.
From the Toyota Kata website:
Toyota Kata is a way for managers and educators to initiate and coach practice of practical scientific-thinking skills in their teams, to develop and mobilize creative capability. Competitive conditions favor teams and organizations that know how to adapt. It's not as difficult as you might think, because you can begin by practicing a set of simple "Starter Kata."
Toyota Kata is about starter practice routines for developing scientific thinking. From there each individual & team can develop their own way.
Toyota Kata is a skill-building process that shifts you and your team from a natural tendency to jump to conclusions ... to thinking, working and reacting more scientifically. Best of all, you only need to practice 20 minutes a day, under the guidance of your coach.
This app is currently built using React Native to make building the app for both Android and iOS from the same source code easier.
Unfortunately, publishing the app on Google Play Store or on Apple App Store, requires money I don't want to spend: it's one-time $25 for a Google Developer Account, and it's even $99/year (!) for the Apple Developer Program.
So, for now, you can find this app only through the F-Droid installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform.
To install this app, you then need the F-Droid client app (pretty similar to Google Play Store or Apple App Store) from the main site: there's an easy QR Code to download and install it.
Then, open the F-Droid repository app and search for TKCompanionApp. Install it, and open it.
Eventually, you can directly download the APK from the [app page on F-Droid website](TKCompanionApp, to be installed manually on your device. There's no difference in functionalities, the only difference being the fact that without the F-Droid client app you won't receive automatic updates (just like Google Play did with other apps).
Welcome to the world of FOSS. Please also take a look at all other wonderful FOSS apps you can find in F-Droid.
Well, it's easy: install the app, open the app, click some buttons. There are no games, no quizzes, no actions to take (yet). Just sit, follow the menu, learn, practice and improve.
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this icon means that the app will open a web page outside the app
itself, using whatever browser or app you have configured on your
device to browse the Internet and show you an external web page.
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this icon means that the app will download a specific file (from The
Toyota Kata Website, if not otherwise specified).
The way your device will manage such file will depend on the device
configuration.
The text associated to the download icon will always specify the type
of file that will be downloaded.
- Font used is Free Sans.
- Font sizes are derived from GRT
Calculator using 20px as base/default font
size for Open Sans font.
Sizes are:
- smaller: 16px, 28px line height,
- default: 20px, 34px line height,
- bigger: 25px, 41px line height.
The app has been started by Marco Bresciani and is currently maintained by Marco Bresciani. Same for this document.
You can keep in touch with the author through:
- Delta Chat with the email address marco.530@outlook.it.
- as @AAMfP on Fosstodon, a Mastodon instance.
- Briar, with the link
to be copy-pasted as "contact at a distance" in Briar.
briar://advt45wcki7nmxhnb25sezrohkiistjq7qqjjeyo7njsdwflymydm
Thanks to (in appearing order):
- Marco Montalbano (@marcomontalbano) because without his teachings, this app would never have happened.
- @licaon-kter for the support on publishing the app to F-Droid.
- Mike Rother for the app icon.
See CONTRIBUTING.md.
You can even contribute through Liberapay:
See LICENSES folder or COPYING file, for the whole licences text.
Overall project license, in brief:
© 2021-2022 Marco Bresciani
This file is part of TKCompanionApp.
TKCompanionApp is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version.
TKCompanionApp is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General
Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
with TKCompanionApp. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
This document license, in brief:
© 2021-2022 Marco Bresciani
Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
notice and this notice are preserved.
This file is offered as-is, without any warranty.
This is a freely licensed work, as explained in the Definition of Free Cultural Works.
Free Sans is the used font, and it's licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.