Barry Tandy
Value Stream Orchestrator at Sauce Labs
Johannesburg, South Africa
I have the most fun baking sourdough bread and smoking meats. I've been directly involved in software engineering for 16+ years in various roles and industries, Banking being the most significant.
I'm a Value Stream Orchestrator at Sauce Labs with a team of wonderful coaches working with our leaders and teams. I work with Leadership at a Value Stream level, focusing on the whole system, not just Engineering.
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A Value Stream Blueprint - The balance between effectiveness, efficiency and predictability
A value stream is an organisational construct representing a hypothesis:
"By aligning people and processes to work together, we maximise our ability to execute on our product strategies and deliver value to our customers."
Your organisation has a structure for doing this today. People make decisions about work daily, if not more often. Work flows from its arrival point to its departure point and value delivered.
A challenge that I often see with existing structures is that they only represent a small part of the whole. This often leads to a local optimisation and has staff running around trying to make sense of things.
In this talk I'll walk through the elements that we use in our value streams for example:
Establish the foundation for the value stream
Create the shape of the value stream
Provide accessibility to the value streams work
Measurement design which provides everyone the information they need
I'll spend time sharing the successes and failures we've had. I'll also share some models that we've found useful while establishing value streams.
Learning Outcomes:
Use functional organisational design to guide the entire concept-to-delivery flow of value.
Create an environment of rapid decision making and cross-functionality
Create a definition of workflow showing all aspects of how potential value flows
Setting service level expectations
Crafting a meeting structure that is POWERful
The "glass box" principle of transparency: measurement design
Build a Visual Management System to bring people together
Remember the times at the office when office walls told a story? A company poster sharing the latest company message. Loads and loads of Kanban boards. Some data too.
Sometimes, teams would gather together around a board to discuss the work . Sometimes different groups would gather too, whether on a cadence or ad-hoc.
In this workshop, you will create your own Visual Management System to take away with you to use in your context.
- We'll spend time looking at examples of physical and virtual VMS
- We'll identify who it's useful for, and how you might make it useful for more people
- You'll build your own VMS
- You'll share ideas with each other
Regional Scrum Gathering® Cape Town 2023 Sessionize Event
Barry Tandy
Value Stream Orchestrator at Sauce Labs
Johannesburg, South Africa
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