Guiding Your Journey towards Effective Value Stream Management

Establishing or Enhancing Your Value Stream Practices and Setting up Connected Toolchain for Measuring Flow of Value in Real Time and Optimizing for Business Outcomes

Establishing Your Value Stream Practices: Process Steps

Step #1

Current State Visual Representation

Uncovering your Business' key flows of value, their stages and criteria. Documenting VSs in visual form

Step #2

Efficiency Audit

Identifying blockers of value flow, prioritizing them according to impact significance and potential speed of delivery.

Step #3

Mapping to Capabilities

Each Value Stage is mapped to your business' capabilities - granular unit of your Business and Enterprise Architecture. Each capability's maturity is assessed and reflected in a capability heatmaps for each value stream.

Step #4

Roadmap to Desired State

Value Stream optimizations starts with designing a roadmap from current to target state. Steering committee is formed and stakeholders' participation scope us defined.

Step #5

Impact Assessment Framework

In order to understand whether executed actions are moving the needle towards desired goals, those goals are formulated in form of Key Results in OKR framework. Custom linkages across OKRs, Initiatives, Epics, investments, and sales and customer satisfaction metrics are established.

Step #6

Dashboards and Reports

Implementing an on-demand reporting system and role-based interactive dashboards that are fully automated and populated with real-time data generated from internal processes and customer feedback.

Step #7

Aligning Teams around Value

Defining scenarios for organizing cross-functional teams around core value flows to bridge departmental silos and foster a culture that prioritizes value and products over projects.