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VSMcon 2023

In by Jenna Potts

Join us on 6/7 for VSMcon 2023! Lance Knight, President & CEO, ConnectALL will be discussing Value Stream Noise, What It Is and How You Can Lower The Volume. Noise within the value stream is anything that may hinder teams from focusing on development and delivery. Excessive communication, relentless feedback, context switching and changing requirements are all things that prevent teams from being productive and can be detrimental to your organization. Fortunately, using Pattern Thinking can help you uncover the wasteful activities that you may not even be aware of and help get your organization back on track!

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SD Times Live! Micro-Webinar Series – Pattern Thinking & Value Stream Automation Patterns: An Intro to Pattern Thinking

In by Jenna Potts

Join us April 18 at 1PM ET, for our first episode in a series of micro-webinars covering “Pattern Thinking & Value Stream Automation Patterns.” It’s crucial for organizations to be agile and efficient. To achieve this, optimizing flow in the software delivery value stream is key. And the answer is pattern thinking and automation patterns. Tune in to find out the importance of automating using pattern recognition; automation patterns that’ll accelerate DevOps and Agile; and a lot more.

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The Bitter Truth About the State of Value Stream Management

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As we get closer to the beginning of the new year, we feel obliged to give you all a “state of value stream management” report. The value stream management space has been heating up faster than it is being defined. Amid the confusion, there has been a noticeable shift in what we believe to be the wrong direction. In pursuit of this hotness, over 20 small, mid-sized, and large companies now claim to provide VSM solutions, but are all of them helping with digital transformation goals, DevOps initiatives, or Agile transformation? Or have they simply jumped on the bandwagon and …

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Value Stream Management, One Year Later

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As the practice of value stream management matures, new ways to look at it have emerged, including the kinds of platforms being used and even where in an organization the practice can be implemented. Join our panel of experts, who in a power talk last year outlined what problems value stream management can solve, to examine the explosive growth of the practice and where value stream software is going in 2021.