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Transform Your Workflow: Top Automation Patterns for Project and Portfolio Management

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Do you struggle to identify bottlenecks in your workflows or find ways to optimize your organization’s value stream? Are you constantly trying new solutions to streamline your workflow, increase productivity, and boost your bottom line? In this webinar, we’ll explore the top value stream automation patterns that can help navigate common challenges faced by PPM managers and how they can use automation patterns to simplify processes, eliminate waste, and improve efficiency.

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Charting the Final Frontier (of Software Delivery): A DevOps Value Stream Mapping Workshop

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Like Captain James T. Kirk in Star Trek, most IT leaders and practitioners have a desire “to boldly go where no man has gone before.” What do we mean by this? Over the years, software delivery has gone through radical changes. Waterfall has led to Agile, and Agile led to DevOps. We’ve hired scrum masters, scheduled daily standups, and set up our kanban board. All of these efforts stem from the same end goals: work faster, build better, and don’t go over budget. Now that we’re in the age of DevOps and moving faster than ever, we’re done right? Not …

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How to Use Value Stream Management to Identify and Eliminate Non-value-added Activities and Control Costs

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Irrespective of your company’s current financial position and performance, they need to sharpen their competitive edge by applying lean principles like value stream management to cost reduction — that is, the elimination of non-value-added activities or waste in the value stream processes. By tackling wastes from an end-to-end business process, your company can improve the value of their products and services. They can: achieve significant cost reduction reduce time-to-market emerge stronger with a more competitive profile Join Lance Knight, president and COO, ConnectALL and David Rubenstein, editor-in-chief, SD Times, in a 10-minute discussion, as they throw light on how VSM …