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Value Stream Management Essentials

by In this Refcard, explore everything VSM has to offer, including key concepts, fundamentals, and more.

From improved collaboration and communication across the entire software delivery cycle to actionable insights and metrics backed by real-time data flowing through an organization, there are many benefits for organizations to look at their own processes on an ongoing (and hopefully automated) basis: One of the main goals of value stream management is to measure and improve the software development lifecycle.

The goal of value stream mapping is to come up with a diagram that accurately depicts the current stages of software delivery within an organization and is a critical first step in being able to manage the value stream.

Change is constant, and if we want to be sure we are working at optimal efficiency, we need to be able to track our value stream in real-time.