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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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Pattern of the Month: Value Stream

Learn more about Value Streams.


A value stream represents the progression of work by means of which value is accumulated and an outcome achieved. The purpose of a value stream is often to delight a customer.

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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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The Value Stream: Providing A Common Language Between Business Leaders and IT Professionals

It's no surprise that software development professionals and IT leaders don't always see eye to eye with business executives. The two groups often have different goals and priorities. It is, after all, human nature to be most mindful of those concerns which affect you on a daily basis. For the developer, that might be infrastructure stability and for a CFO, it probably has more to do with balancing the ledger in a straightforward manner. Meanwhile, the CEO is concerned with appeasing investors. In recent years, however, one concept has helped to unite teams all across the organization: value stream management (VSM).

This idea, taught in business schools across the country, is a great unifier and rallying point. In fact, I've recently seen many executive-level people getting involved in decisions around software development and the VSM conversation is what makes that possible.