The majority of organizations seeking to make a digital transformation are not equipped to do it successfully, according to the results of the recently released "2023 Project to Product: State of the Industry" report by portfolio management company Planview. Only 8% of respondents stated that they have operationalized the shift from project to product, meaning
ConnectALL 2.11 is the latest release of the value stream management (VSM) company’s flagship VSM platform. ConnectALL is calling this release a “complete overhaul” of the platform, providing a more modern UI and stronger VSM capabilities. Logic Flow Adapters were added to the platform in this release. These allow users to incorporate business logic into
GitLab is officially entering the value stream management space with the beta release of its Value Streams Dashboard. The new dashboard provides an overall view of metrics like DORA and flow metrics. By tracking these metrics over a period of time, development teams will be able to locate trends early, drill down into individual metrics,
Value stream management has a terminology problem, since there are terms out there that sound the same but are actually different: value stream, value stream mapping, value stream management, and value management – which leaves many confused. “There’s nothing wrong with value stream management itself, but there’s plenty wrong with how it’s being considered and
In order to facilitate the development of standards for sharing data across different platforms within the value stream, a new technical committee has sprung up from within OASIS Open, which is an open source and standards consortium. According to the committee, organizations typically employ a number of different tools to measure software performance in order
It may seem as though value stream management is a new concept in the world of software development; SD Times has written countless articles about it over the past few years and has hosted three conferences on it since 2020. But it has its origins decades ago in manufacturing. In an SD Times Live! event,
While getting software out into the world is the main goal of many companies, it’s important to remember that the engagement and happiness of the people building that software impacts how productive they are as well as the quality of their work. Unfortunately it’s all too common to find product teams overloaded and overwhelmed with
Value stream is all about finding ways to measure the value you’re providing to your customers, and as with anything that we try to do in business, there are always new practices that can be applied to make improvements. In a talk at {virtual) VSMcon 2022, a conference dedicated to value stream management, Scott Ambler,
From an organizational level, creating and managing value streams plays an important role in eliminating wasteful processes and the time they take, enabling the company to focus on delivering value to their customers. At software companies – which many, many companies are today – the primary role of developers is delivering that value, in the
There’s an often-repeated saying that is attributed to Mark Twain: “History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” Based on what I’ve witnessed over the course of the past several decades I’ve been in this arena, I’d say this observation is very applicable to the enterprise software market. There’s been consistent rhyming as you
