Chris Gallivan
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Saline, Michigan, United States
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Chris is a Principal Flow Advisor at Planview Tasktop. Chris advises large, Fortune 500 organizations on making work visible, and improving the flow of value to customers. Prior to joining Tasktop, Chris had two decades of experience improving flow in the automotive industry at Chrysler. His experience ranges from DevOps Dojos to Platform Engineering, from traditional software to embedded systems. Chris has previously spoken at DevOps Enterprise Summit 2018, IIBA BAcon 2022, DevOps Midwest 2023 and numerous other local events in the Midwest.
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Investing in Quality: One Metric to rule them all
In this talk, we explore a crucial, yet often overlooked aspect of quality management in software development - making all your work visible using flow distribution. All your work competes for the same capacity. If you focus too much on features, it can often come at the price of lots of defects. On the other hand, if you focus on technical debt, you can not only improve flow, but also drive down defects. This session offers valuable insights and actionable tips for enhancing software quality and efficiency in your organization.
Looking for Flow in All the Wrong Places
In this session we will talk about the corporate world’s efficiency obsession, and how it has caused us to lose track of what really matters when trying to deliver faster value to customers. How many times have you heard managers talk about unproductive people ? How about people who aren’t following the process? What about teams who take on too much WIP? The unfortunate side effect of these sorts of questions, is that individuals feel pressure to create local optimizations in order to make themselves feel productive. The truth is, even if individuals are highly productive and following the process, the majority of waste still occurs between the seams of individuals and teams. Just like Johnny Lee was searching for love in all the wrong places, we've been searching for flow in all the wrong places. Leave this session with a better understanding of how to answer the real question, "Where do we need to invest?"
Make your value stream network visible
In this session we will talk about the number one barrier to flow in large organizations - the value stream network. An organization’s value stream network is the set of interconnected hops a unit of value must take in order to make it to your customer. Think of it like an airline route map. Have you ever wondered why all your teams seem to be doing great on the DORA metrics, yet it still takes far too long to deliver value to customers? The answer probably lies somewhere hidden in your value stream network. Leave this session with helpful tips on how to visualize and improve your value stream network.
The Calculus of Value Stream Management: Delivering Outcomes in Times of Change
Wikipedia describes calculus as “The mathematical study of continuous change,” a fitting way to think about value stream management (VSM) and the opportunities it provides organizations seeking continuous improvement of their software delivery processes. Today, value stream management finds itself in a similar position as DevOps did in 2015. One of the first live webinars on DevOps.com, “The Calculus of DevOps,” highlighted a relatively new domain with much potential, but with widely varying definitions.
While DevOps has matured significantly, it has not been enough to help enterprises truly compete in the increasingly digital world. VSM has emerged as the next logical step in your continuous improvement journey. Today, leading analysts have created categories for VSM solutions, enterprise adoption at scale has begun and forecasts indicate a steep rise of spending on VSM. The success of digital transformation initiatives will be directly correlated to VSM strategy.
During this session, we’ll revisit the mathematical notion of continuous change and apply it to value stream management to take a closer look at:
-What VSM is and why it’s the natural next step in scaling Agile and DevOps
-How to architect and improve end-to-end flow within your value stream
-How to connect IT work to business outcomes and successfully effect change
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