Value Stream Mapping is Dead. Long Live Value Stream Mapping!
Steve Pereira at All The Talks 2020 - DevOps
Many teams and organizations are seeing positive outcomes from focusing on value and flow in their teams, but how do you actually do that?
Value Stream Mapping (VSM) aims to do exactly that, but coming from physical manufacturing, and being decades old is not helpful in today's tech teams. Most Value Stream Maps you'll see are messy, jargon-filled diagrams nobody but a consultant could read.
In this talk, I'll give you the 20% of VSM goodness that produces 80% of the value, and share specific examples of how to create and use a VSM to debug workflows and save time, frustration and waste.
We'll cover:
- Why Value Stream Mapping is useful
- How it's done and how you can do it
- Where it applies
- What challenges it addresses
- Common outcomes and ROI
Steve Pereira
CEO - Visible
Steve is obsessed with making tech human, using simple tools and techniques to make big changes.
Ever since he was an infant he's been taking things apart and reimagining how they fit together. He had the wonderful fortune of being a child of a technical manager and a teacher, in a family of 6 kids. He once moved into his closet for a week because it would keep his room clean and bed made without touching it. He's become a bit more practical and less idealistic over the years, but no less obsessed with simplicity and optimization. He was always encouraged to be curious and resourceful and to speak up, experiment and think big - and that's always how he's lived and worked.
He's currently providing coaching and tools to growing SaaS startup teams through https://vzbl.io
Value Stream Mapping (VSM) aims to do exactly that, but coming from physical manufacturing, and being decades old is not helpful in today's tech teams. Most Value Stream Maps you'll see are messy, jargon-filled diagrams nobody but a consultant could read.
In this talk, I'll give you the 20% of VSM goodness that produces 80% of the value, and share specific examples of how to create and use a VSM to debug workflows and save time, frustration and waste.
We'll cover:
- Why Value Stream Mapping is useful
- How it's done and how you can do it
- Where it applies
- What challenges it addresses
- Common outcomes and ROI
Steve Pereira
CEO - Visible
Steve is obsessed with making tech human, using simple tools and techniques to make big changes.
Ever since he was an infant he's been taking things apart and reimagining how they fit together. He had the wonderful fortune of being a child of a technical manager and a teacher, in a family of 6 kids. He once moved into his closet for a week because it would keep his room clean and bed made without touching it. He's become a bit more practical and less idealistic over the years, but no less obsessed with simplicity and optimization. He was always encouraged to be curious and resourceful and to speak up, experiment and think big - and that's always how he's lived and worked.
He's currently providing coaching and tools to growing SaaS startup teams through https://vzbl.io