You’ve invested in the tools. Your teams have dashboards that track cycle time, throughput, and work in progress. You’ve likely even built a sophisticated, probabilistic roadmap. Yet, despite the data, it feels like theatre. The moment the workshop ends, that roadmap becomes a static slide deck, and teams remain paralyzed, waiting for you to update […]
Measuring Value Streams by Analyzing Flow Metrics
There is increasing pressure and demand for IT administrators to bring software to market quickly and cost-effectively. To achieve that goal, IT departments frequently compile various metrics that measure specific development processes. Data and metrics are important tools, but administrators sometimes don’t think to look at projects through a wider lens—by measuring total production workflows. […]
A Daily Gemba Walk for a Software Delivery Organization?
Lean thinking has had a substantial influence on helping enterprises to improve the flow of value across their software delivery organization. Yet, for many companies in what industry visionary Brian Solis calls the “Novel Economy,” where market conditions have yet to be identified or understood, the degree of responsiveness and agility required to adapt and […]