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 …
WORKSHOP: Accelerate Software Delivery With Value Stream Mapping
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 …