value-stream mapping

In today's fast-paced technology landscape, companies are increasingly shifting from project-based approaches to product-centric models to drive greater inno...

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The Independent Service Heuristics (ISH) are rules-of-thumb (clues) for identifying candidate value streams and domain boundaries by seeing if they could be run as a separate SaaS/cloud product. The ISH approach is a “rapid results” approach, and complementary to the approaches from Domain-driven De

A Value Stream Primer: Organising for Fast End to End Flow. Visulisation exploring value streams. Value streams exist to enable the fast flow of value with in your organisation. There is a focus on value consumers and producers, and a continual optimisation of the flow of value between them.

The process of delivering value in creative industries is primarily about information arrival and knowledge creation. But, when creating Kanban boards, we are still influenced by value stream mapping. This often leads to visualizations still showing how a piece of work moves between workers or organization units as if they were machines on an assembly line. Sometimes workers toss a work item back and forth like a hot potato. This session proposes an alternative: visualize the process as accumulation of knowledge, find which activities dominate it at each phase, and model processes as sequences of dominant activities. Between those activities are not hand-offs, but changes of activities and collaboration patterns. Speaking from experience, I will show examples of such process maps not only from software engineering, but also from entrepreneurship, marketing, training, documentation and other fields. The new “beyond VSM” approach integrates easily with STATIK (systems thinking approach to introducing Kanban): understand what services are being delivered and visualize the sequence of dominant activities for each service. I will share stories and give pragmatic guidance on bringing groups of people together to explore their processes. The result is the effective Kanban visualization practice: easy-to-use boards, showing how the work is actually done, having fewer back-flows, avoiding inertia and stimulating improvement and collaboration.

General and useful tips and advice on how to draw value stream maps. Includes discussion of the pro's and cons of the medium (computer, paper, pin board ...) and also some common pitfalls that can be avoided.

Explanation of the basics of value stream mapping: how to walk along the line and gather the information for a value stream map.

Explanation and overview of value stream mapping symbols, also including alternatives and different variants. These are also for download in Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Excel.

Reasons on why to do value stream mapping. Includes a list of when VSM is helpful, when it may be helpful, and maybe not. Also includes an explanation on why VSM is so ubiquitous all over the world.

Value stream mapping is a technique for visualization of every step in a process. Discover how organizations use it to identify waste, streamline work, and improve delivery.

A value stream has long-lived value consumers, producers (in multidisciplinary teams), and product(s) (things of value). Value streams are nested. Teams &… | 10 comments on LinkedIn

As much as 50% of knowledge is lost in every handoff. That means that by the time work has had 4 handoffs, the recipient is potentially only getting 6%... 21 comments on LinkedIn

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IT Revolution-DevOps Enterprise Journal - Spring 2022

By Jim Cuff & Josh Berry - When transitioning from an “on prem” software company to a SaaS solution, a focus only on the technology / architecture is not enough. Learn about the techniques one organization used to be successful with this transition beyond the tech stack – changing the mindset within organizational silos to start thinking about the end-to-end flow.

Let me tell you two short stories of two Swedish women in their thirties. We will follow them both through their interaction with the Swedish healthcare system.