Straightening out your value stream
From the Manifesting Business Agility Blog
by Al Shalloway
This blog concerns itself with organizations moving to business agility—the quick realization of value predictably and sustainably, and with high quality. It includes all aspects of this—from the business stakeholders through ops and support. Topics will be far-reaching but will mostly discuss FLEX, Flow, Lean-Thinking, Lean-Management, Theory of Constraints, Systems Thinking, Test-First and Agile.
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The value stream is the set of actions that take place to add value to a customer from the initial request to delivery. The value stream begins with the initial concept, moves through various stages for one or more development teams (where Agile methods begin), and on through final delivery and support.
Value streams are what they are, you don't specify them. There are several ways to change them, however, including changing:
- what goes into them
- how people collaborate
- the order of the work (e.g., test-first)
- how teams are organized, the size of the work done
- the amount of work being done by the people in the value stream
The idea is to remove handoffs, delays and handbacks in the value stream. Doing so will lower cycle times and increase process cycle efficiency resulting in quicker time to market and realization of value.
Posted on: November 12, 2019 12:28 PM |
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Luis Branco
CEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, Ldª
Carcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Dear Al
Interesting this reflection
Thanks for sharing
I know VSM applied to operations
How will this concept apply to adaptive (agile) project lifecycle approaches?
Very interesting, thanks for sharing
Nawar Nur
Partnership and Product Manager| Bakkah Inc.
Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia
Thanks for this. Very interesting read.
Al Shalloway
Founder and CEO| Success Engineering
Edmonds, Wa, United States
@Luis pretty much the same way. You are looking for delays, handoffs, handbacks, etc.
You'll find this of value i think
Why Looking at the Value Stream Is So Important https://portal.netobjectives.com/pages/books/going-beyond-lean-and-agile/why-looking-at-the-value-stream-is-so-important/
Try telling an RTE (Release Train Engineer) "value streams are what they are, you don't specify them". But I agree with you.
Al Shalloway
Founder and CEO| Success Engineering
Edmonds, Wa, United States
yes, this is part of the damage SAI is doing by redefining terms and how to use them. You lose the value that existed before they did that.
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