Practical insights and key lessons learned from facilitating five Value Stream Mapping workshops with technology teams. Covers what worked, what didn’t, and actionable advice for teams and leaders aiming to drive real improvement through mapping activities.
A comprehensive collection of resources for getting started with Value Stream Mapping: foundational overviews, deep dive materials, community resources, and next steps for technology teams looking to improve their delivery processes.
A walkthrough of a hands-on Value Stream Mapping exercise for technology teams: identifying constraints, analyzing cycle times, and discussing improvement opportunities through a practical example of a software delivery lifecycle.
Why starting with a clear goal that serve both the company and customers enables successful improvement initiatives, and the consequences of skipping this step.
Exploring how isolated improvements can negatively impact overall system performance, with real-world examples of how value stream mapping helps prevent these pitfalls by providing a holistic view.
An overview of Value Stream Mapping for technology teams: visualizing work flow across multiple processes to identify waste, delays, and bottlenecks, with the goal of designing more efficient cross-team processes.
A template for creating a Value Stream Mapping charter: providing an overview and starting point for teams initiating process improvement initiatives with clear goals and stakeholder alignment.
Exploring my decade-long journey with kickboxing in the Netherlands, the immediate feedback loop it provides, and how its principles of continuous improvement parallel my work in DevOps and Value Stream Mapping.
Mark Sadler shares how value stream mapping workshops provided immediate value by revealing bottlenecks and process issues, while helping align the team around customer value as their north star.
Jukka Palosaari shares how value stream mapping workshops provided immediate value by revealing bottlenecks and process issues, while helping align the team around customer value as their north star.
Read what Iker Garagarza, Director of Engineering at Relex Solutions, had to say about working with me on Value Stream Mapping initiatives.
Mika Schafroth shares how value stream mapping helped improve deployment processes, getting the team on the same page, and empowering them to take control of their ways of working by setting realistic targets.
Lean Coffee is a structured, but agenda-less meeting. Participants gather, build an agenda, and begin talking. Conversations are directed and productive because the agenda for the meeting was democratically generated. This is a practical guide to running a New York style Lean Coffee session.
Marcus Aurelius's wisdom on focusing on essentials aligns with Value Stream Mapping's approach on clarity and focus.
Notes from a Lean Coffee discussion in Berlin about how Value Stream Mapping can help with re-organizations, how it complements Wardley Mapping, and how lean principles can help startups achieve their goals through validated learning and waste reduction.
An overview of the improvement roadmap session of a Value Stream Mapping Workshop: prioritizing actions, building a roadmap, and setting up measures to track progress towards improvement goals.
An overview of the future state mapping session of a Value Stream Mapping Workshop: identifying waste, designing countermeasures, and building a target workflow to improve value delivery.
An overview of the dependency mapping session of a Value Stream Mapping Workshop: identifying root causes, mapping sub-processes, and building alignment on improvement priorities.
Reflections on facilitating an Outcome Mapping workshop, focusing on key learnings, challenges faced, and strategies for improvement in workshop facilitation and team alignment.
Notes from a Lean Coffee discussion about Value Stream Mapping at the leadership level, using the STARS model to structure recommendations, and creating impactful organizational change.
An overview of the current state mapping session of a Value Stream Mapping Workshop: reviewing goals, mapping processes, analyzing constraints, and achieving cross-team alignment.
Exploring validated learning in SRE: lessons from Lean Startup applied to large scale SaaS.
Addressing Gaps in User Behavior Visibility and Realistic Test Setups for a Global Supply Chain Leader.
I was a "DevOps engineer" for years without hearing about The Phoenix Project. It completely changed my career.
Aligning daily work with customer value and organizational goals.
Aligning daily work with customer value and organizational goals.
“If a developer ever has a choice between working on a feature or developer productivity, they should always chose developer productivity”
A Blameless Post-Mortem Meeting Template to help structure and guide the meeting.
Next week on the 12th of June I will speak at a DevOps event in Berlin! The topic is "Incidents and failures happen. Let's discuss them and embrace a blameless culture together."
What is Deployment Lead Time, why is it important and how to measure it.
We reduced the team's Deployment Lead Time by 46%, just 5 weeks into our Value Stream Mapping project
When delivering a product or service to the customer, a part of the effort is wasted in inefficiencies, miscommunication, etc. Let's talk about what waste is and what are some common sources of waste.