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July 23, 2021

Improve Your Engineering Pipeline with Value Streams

Software development and delivery are critical. But how do you determine what value you get from all of that investment?

Value Stream Management helps companies improve, monitor, and manage value so they can better visualize how work flows from idea to realization.

On last week's episode of Dev Interrupted, I interviewed Helen Beal, Chair of the VSM Consortium, DevOps coach, author and "flowologist", to understand her research on Value Stream Management. Helen's research can also be found here.

Episode Highlights Include:

What is Value Stream Management?
How companies can best utilize VSM in their engineering pipeline
What is the VSM Consortium and what are it's goals?
Technical writing as a force multiplier in your career

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April 12, 2019

How Do You Know If Your Organization Is Delivering Value Through Software?

There are no guarantees that DevOps and Agile will ensure that your software products will provide better value to customers – just that your customers should receive the product faster. Speed, however, is redundant if what you deliver doesn’t meet a customer’s requirements. In that scenario you haven’t provided business value — you’ve just delivered disappointment.

Thanks to Agile sprints and product prioritization, cross-team collaboration, CI/CD and release automation (among other innovations), organizations are building and deploying products faster than ever. In fact, according to The State of DevOps Report, high-performing organizations are deploying 440 times faster (from code commit to deploy).

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