As value stream management (VSM) grows in popularity, our understanding of VSM expands and often brings confusion. With a career background in manufacturing, ConnectAll President and COO Lance Knight, shares the meaning behind value management and how value stream management brings more extraordinary insight into the DevOps software development and delivery workflow.
Value Stream Management Then and Now Value Stream Management Then and Now: How VSM Has Transformed Across Two Decades From Manufacturing to Software Development What better way is there to understand something than to consider its transformation through time and experience? This time, we are talking about Value Stream Management. In this webinar, SD Times is hosting a talk with ConnectALL’s newly appointed SVP of Operations and Customer Success Charles ‘Scot’ Garrison, and President & COO of ConnectALL Lance Knight. In this epic webinar, we will look at VSM through Scot’s eyes. We will take the theory out of VSM ...
Accelerate Digital Transformation by Understanding Value-Added and Non-Value-Added Activities in Software Development and Delivery Lance Knight, President & COO The definition of digital transformation is “the adoption of digital technology by an organization. Common goals for its implementation are to improve efficiency, value or innovation.” Imagine if you could accelerate this transformation by identifying the value-added and non-value-added work in a software delivery value stream? For example, look at Initech, the company in the classic comedy movie Office Space, and Tom Smykowski’s self-described job description — he takes the specs from the customers and routes them to the software ...
July 18-22 in Nashville, Tennessee Agile Alliance’s annual conference is dedicated to exploring, innovating, and advancing Agile values and principles, and creating a space for people and ideas to flourish. The Agile2022 conference brings Agile communities together year after year to share experiences and make new connections. Join passionate Agilists from around the world to learn about the latest practices, ideas, and strategies in Agile software development from the world’s leading experts, change agents, and innovators.
July 21, 2022 @ 1PM ET Live from Agile2022 Nashville Organizations not closely familiar with value stream management often may ask: “How does it fit with these other agile approaches we’ve been adopting?” “Why do I need VSM if I’m already implementing Agile?” The answer: VSM, agile, or for that matter DevOps are not mutually exclusive. Principles of agile are baked into VSM, and VSM in many ways represents an extension of the short cycle/fast feedback approach championed in DevOps. Many organizations struggle to apply agile across silos, and others may struggle to determine ways to align agile workflows towards ...
The world of software is moving faster than ever before. In pursuit of speed, IT organizations often undergo radical digital transformations to try and keep up. But unfortunately it is common that these transformation efforts either fail outright or simply fall short of their goals. One reason for potential failure is an invisible force that can stymie any organization's best-laid plans: waste. And waste is particularly present among non-value-added activities. Unlike in manufacturing, where you can walk up and down the line and see physical components and visually track progress, it is not obvious where waste lurks in your software ...
August 10, 2022 @ 1PM ET Have you ever played pin the tail on the donkey? The premise of this children's game seems simple enough: Use a thumbtack to attach a paper tail to a picture of a donkey. So what makes this game challenging? The blindfold. It becomes nearly impossible to pinpoint the right place for the tail when the participant can no longer see. Your software delivery process works (or doesn't) in a similar way. Unlike on a factory floor where you can physically see the machinery at work, the process to build software is often invisible. Because ...
How Automating with VSM Unifies Disparate Teams We as an industry cannot afford to ignore the dangers of siloed software delivery. The cost of a siloed workforce is staggering, resulting in project delays, declining software quality, and a disconnect from the original project intent. And with the widespread shift to remote work, these silos have become more entrenched than ever. How can we begin to address the problem? Join ConnectALL’s Lance Knight (President and COO) and Norman Miglietta (SVP of Marketing) as they sit down with David Rubinstein in the latest SD Times Microwebinar to discuss how automation with value ...
One of the biggest challenges that Agile managers face is the lack of visibility into their projects, portfolios and programs. When you connect your PPM tools and let them interoperate, you enable project managers, program managers, portfolio managers, or project stakeholders to view real-time status and progress of agile projects. In this webinar, we will show you how you can create an all-in-one system for PPM when you connect Jira and Rally Software. It helps couple product management, development and QA teams bringing in visibility, improved coordination and a seamless product delivery process. We will show you how with a ...
At ConnectALL, we have discussed ad nauseum what value stream management isn't. We've told you that it is NOT a tool, NOT a feature, and NOT a map. It isn't a person, it isn't a platform, and it isn't a set of metrics. Agile? DevOps? Also not value stream management. But what is less clear in our industry is a concrete definition of what value stream management actually is. It's time to draw our line in the sand. We are going to push aside the squishiness that often accompanies this topic and plant our flag on what we believe is ...
