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Value Stream Management: Providing Visibility, Structure and Monitoring at Every Level

From the smallest start-ups to the biggest corporations, every company now has to consider itself a software company, and there’s no room in this for half-hearted attempts at DevOps. One way to increase efficiency and ensure that processes are running smoothly is the implementation of value stream management (VSM). Adopting this approach can make a significant impact at every level of a business, improving collaboration and visibility for the benefit of all.

The CIO: Visibility From the Highest Point

Leading IT organizations are no longer concentrating on simply how fast they can deliver software, but on how much business value they can deliver at speed, and how every customer product, service or application has its own value stream.

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Beyond the Hype: Setting Realistic DevOps Expectations

Over recent years, the perceived need for brand new tools that can provide customers with faster agile and DevOps application delivery has increased on an unprecedented scale. Despite the fact that the idea of going faster and how DevOps can aid this isn’t new, businesses are eager to prove to their customers that they can produce results with DevOps. In the competitive landscape that organizations now have to navigate, being able to provide customers with improved delivery can help them stay ahead of the game.

With the introduction of tools for automation, requirements management, and deployment, businesses are claiming that they are providing a faster and better service to customers than ever before – a result of DevOps. But the experts have a different opinion and argue that, if they are not being utilized properly, the tools might not work as expected.