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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CloudBees DevOptics: Value Stream Mapping for Microservices Applications

Applications are not getting simpler and less complex nowadays. As an industry, we are advancing how we architect our systems and deliver services for these applications to become more efficient and effective.

Breaking down your application into microservices can largely decrease complexity of developing and deploying single decoupled components. At the same time the overall system becomes more complex since more components are involved.

How Can You Be More Successful in a Compliance Conversation With DevSecOps?

Recently, I was facilitating a Value Stream Mapping exercise with one of our clients and they added a process to their enhancements value stream for "NFT - Security" and then added metrics to indicate that this step in the process could take anything from 3 days to 3 months. This was the major factor that caused their cycle time to have a variance of from 19 to 124 days and could add up to $8,000 to the delivery cost of a single enhancement.

And then they said that thing, that thing I’ve heard too many times before: