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Are Your “Value Streams” Keeping You Stuck in the Past?

The essence of business agility is being able to respond quickly and systematically to feedback. As a means of achieving business agility, value stream management falls short, and ends up being not very different from what organizations have done for a long time: using program management practices to coordinate work across different teams in a large organization.

Kurt Bittner Pierre Pureur
on Nov 10, 2022
Culture & Methods

The Implication of Feedback Loops for Value Streams

Lead time and throughput are dynamic variables which impact flow in a value stream. Capacity, processing time and feedback loops (such as error conditions) have a significant impact on WIP and flow and need to be mapped and measured when building value stream maps.

Pavel Azaletskiy Jack Maher
on Aug 31, 2022
Culture & Methods

Dynamic Value Stream Mapping to Help Increase Developer Productivity

We explore the value stream optimization technique that has proven useful across a number of industries yet is still emerging in the software field. Explore a number of dynamic value stream map practical cases, and see the industry differences in value stream usage between Lean and Agile.

Pavel Azaletskiy
on Apr 21, 2022
Culture & Methods

Applying Software Delivery Metrics and Analytics to Recover a Problem Project

Problem software delivery projects can be recovered mid-flight if Value Stream Management (VSM) analytics are used in a forensic way to uncover the root-cause of the issues. The root-cause metrics areas considered include: People Availability; Team Stress; Backlog Health; Sprint Accuracy; Process Efficiency; Story Management; and Defect Gen. A root-cause RAG reports shows key mitigations.

Charlie Ponsonby
on Nov 03, 2021
Culture & Methods

Value Stream Mapping and Value Stream Management: How They Can Work for You

Value stream mapping is a largely qualitative tool that creates visibility into the waste in a system while also creating alignment around ways to improve. Value stream management codifies the system, allowing for continual monitoring and management.

Peter Maddison
on Aug 30, 2021
DevOps

Driving DevOps with Value Stream Management

In a digital economy, VSM improved software deliveries support the businesses' other value stream improvement initiatives. In its modern reinvention, VSM software tools provide end-to-end and real-time access to data and analytical tools to help improve Flow across CI/CD and DevOps software delivery pipelines.

Gary Rupp
on Aug 17, 2021
Culture & Methods

Outcome Mapping - How to Collaborate with Clarity

To truly improve, organizations need to deliver change to people, process, and tools. To make change effective, they need to identify where that change is needed, what the map of their current state looks like, and what is the best next step to make progress. Outcome mapping helps align teams to a clear goal, gain an understanding of the landscape, and develop a clear plan of action.

Steve Pereira
on Jul 23, 2021
DevOps

Q&A with Eveline Oerhlich on Building an Effective DevOps Culture

The DevOps Institute recently released their latest report entitled "Upskilling 2021: Enterprise DevOps Skills Report". The report found that automation and security remain vital to business success. A focus on building the human skills of DevOps was also identified as companies with the best learning cultures were most likely to succeed.

Matt Campbell Eveline Oerhlich
on May 25, 2021
Culture & Methods

Signs You’re in a Death Spiral (and How to Turn It around before It’s Too Late)

Don’t let feature work blind you. Enterprises are ramping up their software delivery to compete in the digital-first world. But more features and faster time-to-market can lead your business into a death spiral if you neglect technical debt and risk work. Learn how to use value stream metrics to identify whether your business is in danger and how to reverse the trajectory before it’s too late.

Lee Reid Patrick Anderson
on Apr 13, 2021
Culture & Methods

Decentralised Development: Common Pitfalls and how Value Stream Management can Avoid Them

Big businesses often learn about Agile methodologies and start breaking up their teams to be more product-oriented. But this exposes teams to pitfalls affecting three main areas: risk, dependencies and governance. This article identifies these challenges, and introduces value stream management as an answer –the author explores what this is and how businesses can implement it effectively.

Jeff Keyes
on Nov 20, 2020
DevOps

Book Review and Q&A on "Standing on Shoulders: A Leader's Guide to Digital Transformation"

The book “Standing on Shoulders: A Leader’s Guide to Digital Transformation” provides an introduction to relevant thinking and practices on how to identify and address the major bottlenecks and concerns for transforming organizations. The authors share their industry experience applying these ideas, and how the move to remote working might change our approach to digital transformation.

Manuel Pais Jack Maher Carmen DeArdo
on Jul 25, 2020
DevOps

What’s Next in DevOps?

The DevOps movement continues to grow and gain influence in the IT world and the business world at large. As the organisations become increasingly digital, the agility of our IT systems becomes critical to the life and health of the companies.

Andrew Davis
on Mar 27, 2020