According to the State of DevOps Report, “nearly 80% of organizations remain in the middle of their DevOps journey, experiencing varying degrees of success at the team level but not across the entire organization.” There could be organizational-level reasons for companies to still be stuck—including cultural challenges. However, from a functional level, the absence of visibility into the non-value-added work from a value stream perspective is still a problem. Reducing or eliminating waste is one of the most important tenets of Lean software engineering. Waste can be found everywhere, from too many people working on a project and ineffective ...