Value Streams have been a core of Lean thinking for decades. It started with Toyota and the Lean Manufacturing movement and has been widely embraced since then. An understanding of this concept for modern product development is key to improving our ways of working – being more effective, efficient, and holistic in our approach to delivering value to customers. Many companies struggle with sub-optimization by focusing on a small portion of the production pipeline. Instead, let’s make visible and look to measure the end to end system.
Mapping the path to value will tell us: Do we really need to hire more engineers in one area of the business; or would we benefit by hiring somewhere else? Is our biggest challenge actually the time it takes to deploy code from first check-in? Let‘s understand the entire path to production and the capabilities needed so we are hiring to improve the entire system capability - organizing around value delivery. Bring your laptop or notebook to the session - at the end, you’ll try to map out your own "path to value.”
In this session, you will learn:
- Why mapping the path to value is crucial to helping your business achieve the promised value of agile and DevOps
- How to determine the scope of your mapping activity
- How to get started with the mapping activity in a lightweight way