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

In by Jenna Potts

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 Automating with VSM Unifies Disparate Teams

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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 …

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WORKSHOP: Accelerate Software Delivery With Value Stream Mapping

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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 …

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5 Things You’ll Love When You’re Mapping Your Value Stream with the Value Stream Designer

In ConnectALL, Value Stream, Value Stream Designer, Value Stream Management by Soumya Menon

“If it ain’t broke don’t fix it”. Sure! That’s a cool quote by Bert Lance. But how do you know if something is broken or not if you can’t see it? Story of everyone’s life in software delivery! But that changes from here on out! You will now be able to see everything crystal clear in your value stream online. The first complimentary Value Stream diagramming tool from a value stream management company is now publicly available. You can go back to the drawing board and diagram your value streams to get complete visibility. Before we delve into all the …

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Can You See Your End-to-End Value Stream?

In Value Stream, Value Stream Management by Soumya Menon

Most companies that have adopted value stream management (VSM) to help make work visible haven’t really got it right. Why? To see across the value stream would mean having control over the value stream with an end-to-end view into enterprise workflows, and not just focusing on orchestrating or automating lower-level activities. The challenge in managing these end-to-end value streams is that they inevitably span several systems, some of which are even on the cloud. Without visibility or dynamic flexibility, organizations can’t address issues in a timely fashion.

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Learning to see your value

In Value Stream by Andrew Fuqua

It’s difficult to manage your value streams effectively if you can’t see them, can’t comprehend them, or aren’t aware of them. What helps — value stream mapping, making work visible, implementing the Kanban method, and a value stream manager. In an organization, different people have different views of the value streams, and potentially conflicting improvement objectives, it is important to share one vision of these streams and align on improvement goals. In this post, we will focus on getting a shared understanding of the streams.