Value Stream Management
If you’re a regular reader of SD Times you may have gotten the sense that value stream management (VSM) is really taking off in tech. We’ve increasingly written about it, launched a new website just for value stream news, and even launched a value stream management conference that has been running annually since 2020. And
While the aspirations of companies wanting digital innovation and to connect business value haven’t changed over the years, the definition of what constitutes value stream management has. Dr. Mik Kersten, the CEO of Tasktop Technologies (recently purchased by Planview) and the author of “Project To Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of
In order to facilitate the development of standards for sharing data across different platforms within the value stream, a new technical committee has sprung up from within OASIS Open, which is an open source and standards consortium. According to the committee, organizations typically employ a number of different tools to measure software performance in order
Value stream management and data-driven insights have been hot topics these past few years, and interest will continue to grow. Late last year, Gartner put out a prediction that by 2023, 70% of organizations will be using value stream management in some capacity. In order to do value stream successfully, however, companies need to understand the difference
When multiple teams are operating within the same value stream, controlling dependencies can feel like a daunting task. These teams often become silos and negatively impact the ability to collaborate across the entire value stream, increasing dependencies and decreasing overall productivity. At this month's {virtual} VSMcon 2022, Jim Benson, CEO of Modus Cooperandi and author
Value stream is all about finding ways to measure the value you’re providing to your customers, and as with anything that we try to do in business, there are always new practices that can be applied to make improvements. In a talk at {virtual) VSMcon 2022, a conference dedicated to value stream management, Scott Ambler,
Collaboration between different teams within an organization has become essential in order to bring the most value to the customer. However, optimizing collaboration through value streams while also successfully completing necessary business processes has become somewhat of a challenge in today’s environment. In an SD Times Live! event entitled “Unlocking Real World Outcomes With Value
Value stream management has been a 'thing' in manufacturing for a long time, but it's only been a handful of years since it's been applied to the manufacture of software. In that time, there has been lots of adoption within companies reliant upon software to drive their businesses, and some problems in companies unfamiliar with
There’s an often-repeated saying that is attributed to Mark Twain: “History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” Based on what I’ve witnessed over the course of the past several decades I’ve been in this arena, I’d say this observation is very applicable to the enterprise software market. There’s been consistent rhyming as you
The third {virtual} VSMcon -- now a two-day event discussing all things value stream -- is set for Nov. 3-4 and will feature a host of sessions and workshops to help attendees improve their knowledge of value stream management and begin to implement it at their jobs. The first day offers keynotes and breakout sessions
