I had the great privilege of joining a conversation yesterday about Value Stream Flow and wanted to share it here with a quick summary. We talk about Flow, Mapping and Management, as well as...

Or: Keep CALMS but Carry On ? I believe there is a reason Lean and Metrics are the only two sections in the promising Dojo Consortium playbooks that have significant progress.img src: atla...

When I help companies improve their value streams, the target team and I start high and dig as deep as we need to in order to reveal their unique bottlenecks, risks and opportunities. That u...

Quarterly Cycles for Value Stream Improvement: Visibility, Improvement, Acceleration How do we get from where we are to better with Value Stream Mapping? I saw an example recently showing ...

You may wonder when it's worthwhile to examine or improve a value stream if it hasn't become a regular (quarterly) practice in your organization. Should we just do it? How can we convince ev...

I wanted to share an illustration of how common challenges in business, tech and the business of tech map to positive outcomes via Value Stream Definition and Design. For many people they m...

3 factors affecting all of us right now make it a perfect time to define and improve your value streams: 1. It's easier than ever to get everyone in the same room and on the same page. All ...

Team Capability - Mapped Below I'm linking to 3 example templates I use with distributed teams or when time is scarce and getting everyone in a room is a challenge. These can easily be used...

You might be wondering how we get from a diagram showing steps and timing, to actually making a decision on what to do next. It's not always crystal clear, and it does get easier with contex...

It seems everyone in the Agile, DevOps and Tech scene are talking about Value Streams in 2020, and for good reason! Business and manufacturing folks have been focused on value streams for de...