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{virtual} VSMcon is a one-day digital conference examining the benefits of creating and managing value streams in one's development organization. Attendees learn how to apply value stream strategies to your development process to gain efficiencies, improve quality and cut costs. Previous VSMcon events have attracted over 600 attendees.
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Lance Knight
CEO
ConnectALL
KEYNOTE:
Value Stream Noise: What Is It? How Can You Lower the Volume?
Is your software delivery value stream noisy? Has it ever occurred to you that the noise is weighing down and slowing your processes? With the software world constantly evolving, noise is also growing in multitudes, hindering teams from focusing on development and delivery. Your value stream is filled with noise and interruptions like excessive communication, relentless feedback, context switching, and changing requirements, which prevents teams from doing the actual work. Not dealing with the noise in your software delivery value stream can cost you and your organization!
But what if we could uncover patterns in the unpredictable chaos? Patterns leading to wasteful activities that you may not even be aware of and learning how to cut through the noise and optimize your software delivery value stream. For instance, a never-ending stream of emails and notifications, manual handoffs and processes like copying and pasting tickets, moving between systems, under/over-processing, under/over-production, under/over-governance, etc., acting as bottlenecks, delays, rework, errors, and poor communication.
Join Lance Knight as he explores:
• How value stream management is no longer a platitude, but a necessity for successful software delivery
• How embracing pattern thinking in VSM is essential
• How automation patterns can be the game changers that will help control flow
• How noise affects the efficacy of flow metrics and value stream metrics
• Actionable tips for reducing noise, optimizing processes, and maximizing efficiency
• Gain insights from real-life examples of automation patterns in action
Take advantage of this thought-provoking keynote that will shape the future of software delivery.
Mik Kersten
Chief Technology Officer
Planview, Inc.
KEYNOTE:
Five Years Later: The State of the Shift from Project to Product
In 2018, Dr. Mik Kersten wrote the seminal book, "Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework." It laid out in detail the roadmap for traditional enterprises to make the move from a legacy project operating model that values and measures time, activity, and outputs to a modern product operating model that holds the key to increased efficiency, better customer outcomes, and profitable growth.
Five years later, it’s noteworthy to observe that this shift is not unfolding as quickly as he anticipated. While many enterprises have embarked on this journey, few have achieved the level of transformation needed to match digital natives. With 63% of organizations in early exploratory phases, 29% expanding on pilots or experiments, and only 8% of organizations reporting that they have operationalized the product model, it’s clear that a project-to-product initiative requires sustained effort across all levels of an organization and requires top-down sponsorship from executives.
Using self-reported survey data alongside anonymized, aggregated systems data from actual value streams, Dr. Kersten will offer insight into a roadmap of best practices that can accelerate the transition to a product-based operating model. He will discuss:
• How to create the conditions that increase the likelihood of operationalizing the product model
• How to establish metrics that create joint accountability between business and IT leaders
• Best practices to shorten the time it takes to capture the ROI of this transformation effort.
Dominik Rose
VP Product Management & Platform Strategy
LeanIX
KEYNOTE:
Unlocking the Hidden Potential: Rethinking VSM Beyond Data Analytics
In an era where engineering departments experienced rapid expansion, it has become evident that traditional boundaries of value stream management no longer suffice. Merely relying on data analytics to calculate time to market, identify bottlenecks, and measure value delivered is no longer enough. As growth slows down and organizations strive to optimize processes, streamline onboarding, and enhance security, breaking free from conventional practices and exploring new frontiers is imperative. LeanIX helped IT leaders over the last decade to transform Enterprise Architecture Management from an academic discipline to a strategic driver of transformation. We believe VSM has the same potential for modern product development. This session will feature real-world examples & share first-hand experiences around unlocking this potential.
Steve Pereira
Owner
Visible
Your Roadmap to VSM Success
You’re here because you see the value in VSM. But how can you implement VSM in your organization and start seeing benefits? What are the steps, tools, and practices to deliver success? How can you overcome the common pitfalls and challenges of VSM?
In this talk, you will learn:
• A clear path from where you are to VSM success
• How to overcome the biggest implementation challenges
• Key tools and techniques
• Where to find help and support
• How to start, or begin again
Achieving Operational Excellence Through Value Stream Management and Systems Thinking
VSM, which is based on systems thinking, is a mindset and set of practices that help organizations achieve operational excellence by putting customers first, identifying and eliminating waste, improving collaboration, and driving continuous improvement. By applying systems thinking and VSM, you will gain a deeper understanding of your operations and identify opportunities for improvement.
Key Takeaways:
• An understanding of the key principles of VSM and Systems Thinking and how they help organizations achieve operational excellence
• Drawing from a use case, we will delve into the six key patterns that can be applied to implement operational excellence
• Strategies for leveraging VSM to remain agile and responsive
Saahil Panikar / I-Wen Chen
Director of Digital Transformation / Senior Business Agility Consultant
Project & Team
The Business Agility Value Stream
Digital transformation is advancing into almost all business processes. Technologies such as AI, big data, and cloud computing are unlocking possibilities for creating new customer value. New business opportunities emerge more frequently and many have the potential to disrupt market incumbents. Companies that continuously leverage these technologies will acquire more customers and improve delivery speed, quality, and value to existing customers. Ultimately, they will dominate their markets.
The Business Agility Value Stream (BAVS) is explicitly designed to foster rapid learning and enable more favorable business outcomes. It is a rapid cycle of sensing and responding that helps the Enterprise navigate the unknowns and arrive at a desirable solution before the window of opportunity closes.
In this presentation, we will cover the foundational aspects of a Business Agility Value Stream, how it connects to Operational and Development Value Streams, and explore how organizations may start to understand how BAVSs may be leveraged to advance their organizational goals.
Create a Culture of Continuous Improvement
Value Stream Management, Agile, DevOps, Lean, ... give us so many good things to do, and we try them. Some people are enthusiastic, some go along, some bitch and moan, and in the end the effort fades away. People then call it another flavor of the month and go back to working poorly.
This is common, but it is preventable. Your teams and your company need the precursor to process change: an actual culture that accepts change as part of work. This culture needs to be agreed to, acted on, and improved. Culture is something we can care for.
The Right Environment is an environment in which the professionals in your org have the information, relationships, and respect they need to act with confidence.
Jim Benson will show how you can use value stream mapping, professional awareness, and communications agreements to create a defined, operationalized, and maintainable culture of continuous improvement with copious examples from tech, construction, health care, government, and more.
His book, "The Collaboration Equation" details how humane, collaborative systems naturally deploy the cross-team communication, collaboration, and visualizations that DevOps and Value Stream Management seek to make the new status quo.
Value Stream Management in SAFe 6.0: Unlocking the Power of Flow in the Enterprise
Delivering digitally enabled solutions in large enterprises is often complex and spans many functional boundaries. Consequently, this structure can result in a fragmented delivery process with handoffs, cross-team dependencies, breakdowns in communication, and substantial delays. Value Stream Management (VSM) can help bring order to this chaos so that value-producing work can flow smoothly and continuously across the organization. The key to succeeding with VSM is applying Lean thinking principles to every value stream.
The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) has always been a flow-based system organized by value streams. The recent release of SAFe 6.0 provides deeper, richer guidance to help enterprises optimize the flow of value, including a new article on VSM.
In this presentation, Steve Mayner provides a brief overview of VSM in SAFe 6.0 and how it can unlock better value delivery to customers.
Aurora Gaimon
Technology Workflow Solution Consultant
ServiceNow
The Value Stream Symphony and the role of Change Management in successful VSM
Value Stream Management (VSM) is an essential element for organizations to attain operational excellence but it can be challenging to get started or to implement successfully at scale. It’s a question of orchestrating Product Management, DevOps, SecOps, FinOps, IT Service Management, Agile Project Management, Customer Service Management, and more for optimal business performance. How can this be achieved? And how can it be achieved in a large organization where there is the added complication of regulatory compliance to address?
This session will delve into the orchestration of all the elements with a focus on the critical role of governance in the form of change management in VSM. This is essential, especially in a rapidly changing environment with a large number of distributed teams. We’ll discuss how to ensure compliance, traceability, and auditability while moving fast and eliminating administrative burden for engineers.
Adam Dahlgren
COO & Head of Product
Allstacks
VSM’s Growing Importance Amidst New Market Realities
When stock prices rode high and valuation multiples went to the moon, software teams with new ideas and new initiatives often simply just hired more people. Imagine, then, a few quarters later… funding dries up, churn spikes, RIFs are conducted… and the CFO initiates zero-based budgeting efforts. It’s a new, disorienting world. This is where companies who have invested in and culturally support Value Stream concepts and tooling are able to shine relative to their competitors. By being able to show the alignment of a software team’s efforts & investments to key corporate initiatives, they can then directly drive focus and efficiency in the direction of business value without long cycles of analysis. In this session, Adam will cover how VSM-oriented teams are thriving relative to their peers in the first half of 2023 and will show examples of how using a VSM solution arms leaders with more than just data – it arms them with actionable intelligence, meaningful insights, and the ability to drive healthy, productive change throughout their organization and teams.
The Business Agility Value Stream (BAVS) is explicitly designed to foster rapid learning and enable more favorable business outcomes. It is a rapid cycle of sensing and responding that helps the Enterprise navigate the unknowns and arrive at a desirable solution before the window of opportunity closes.
In this presentation, we will cover the foundational aspects of a Business Agility Value Stream, how it connects to Operational and Development Value Streams, and explore how organizations may start to understand how BAVSs may be leveraged to advance their organizational goals.
Value Streams + Digital Twins 4 Operational Strategy
With near-term compute capabilities we approach the ability to represent complexity that may measurably approximate our reality, using the combination of VSM + DT for taming that complexity for operational management.
Digital twin approaches are common in many industries now (manufacturing, life sciences, etc.), while almost completely absent in others. DTs are digital representations of intended or actual real-world physical products, systems or processes for practical purposes such as managing, simulation, integration, testing, monitoring, and maintenance.
We can employ these concepts together in a Value Stream Network approach with Digital Twins that realize an operational model in a scalable ecosystem representing our operational complexities.
Dean Leffingwell
Creator of SAFe and Chief Methodologist
Scaled Agile, Inc.
Accelerating the Flow of Value with SAFe
Everything moves faster in our digital-centric landscape. Customer desires. Business expectations. Revenue opportunities. Competitive threats. Technology choices. Workforce demands. And it’s accelerating.
Today, markets move to where the value is—without hesitation, mercy, or guilt. To survive, enterprises must deliver continuous value in the form of products and experiences that engage and delight customers. To compete, thousands of the world’s largest enterprises have leveraged SAFe to achieve unprecedented improvements in time-to-market, quality, productivity, and employee engagement.
But are we done? Can we go faster still? Can we achieve a truly continuous state of flow of value to the customer?
In this forward-leaning session, SAFe creator Dean Leffingwell will share personal observations, stories, and insights as to how we can go even faster with SAFe. He’ll explore eight flow accelerators that will help teams debug, improve flow, and accelerate the continuous delivery of customer value in their SAFe implementation.
Helen Beal
Co-chair
Value Stream Management Interoperability Technical Committee, OASIS
Interoperability: Solving the Data Challenge
Value Stream Management improves organizational performance by improving the efficiency and effectiveness of teams and their ability to create extraordinary customer experiences. So why isn’t everyone doing it? There are some challenges, not the least of which is to harness the telemetry emitted by the digital platforms involved (DevOps toolchains and much more) and turn it into the actionable insights. The first step is access the data and this is harder than you might think too. In this talk, Helen Beal, Co-Chair of the VSMI Interoperability Technical Committee and Chair of the VSM Consortium, will share how this challenged is being addressed and the tools and skills needed to continually inspect and adapt digital value streams.
Driving Customer Centricity Mindset with Value Stream Management: Tips & Pitfalls
Years ago, many organizations began the transition from Project to Product. And yet, that transition often did not produce the customer value organizations were hoping for. In this session, we will discuss patterns and anti-patterns companies experience on their journey to customer obsession, and how value stream management can help make that journey easier.
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