Wertstrommanagement

Value Stream Management (VSM) bei der Softwareentwicklung ist ein entscheidender Ansatz für den Erfolg in der digitalen Landschaft von heute. Der systematische Ansatz zur Messung und Verbesserung des Warenflusses hilft Unternehmen, die Zeit bis zur Markteinführung zu verkürzen, den Durchsatz zu erhöhen und die Produktqualität zu verbessern. In dieser VSM-Blog-Kategorie finden Sie lehrreiche Einblicke, Best Practices und praktische Ratschläge von Planview und Branchenexperten, wie Sie die Einschränkungen oder Probleme, denen Sie in Ihrem Softwareentwicklungszyklus gegenüberstehen, angehen können, um bessere Geschäftsergebnisse zu erzielen.

5 Gründe, warum Sie nicht versuchen sollten, Ihr eigenes Flow Metrics Tool zu erstellen

Over the last year, restaurants (like most companies) have been forced to think creatively about how they continue to serve customers without physical interaction. In the UK, many of our favorite food outlets, from the delicious pizzas of Franca Manca to the high-end Indian delights of Dishoom, are creating bespoke packages to enable us to...

The Value Stream Management Consortium (VSMC): A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats

I am excited to write about a new strategy to help organizations adapt more effectively to the intensified digital-first world. From improving time-to-market to operating more efficiently as an organization, software-driven innovation has never been more critical to business success; software has gone beyond accelerating everything we do to actually being what we do. That’s...

SAFe®, Scrum, Kanban Share a Bottleneck and It’s Not What You Think

Even in today’s economic downturn, where U.S. job postings are down overall compared to 2019, tech hiring is showing signs of being more resilient than average. In fact, seven of the ten most in-demand tech jobs are for developers—and none are for QA.  That’s a bit alarming, because the Flow Metrics of several Fortune 100...

5S Your WIP to Accelerate your Value Stream Management (VSM) Journey

One of the most pragmatic and effective Lean practices is modestly called “5S”. It’s all about organizing your workspace for efficient and effective utilization. In plain terms, the 5S’s are: Sort: Sort the necessary from the unnecessary. Set in Order: A place for everything and everything in its place. Shine: Clean up what’s left. Standardize:...

Standing on Shoulders: A Leader’s Guide To Digital Transformation Wins DevOps Book of The Year

DevOps.com has announced the honorees for the 2020 DevOps Dozen² Awards, with Carmen DeArdo—with co-author Jack Maher—winning DevOps Book of Year for their collaboration on Standing on Shoulders: A Leader’s Guide to Digital Transformation. We’re delighted to see Carmen follow in the footsteps of fellow Tasktopians Dominica DeGrandis (Making Work Visible) and Dr. Mik Kersten...

What Evolutionary Biology Can Teach Us About Moving From Project to Product

Humans are biologically programmed to mistrust anything that deviates from the status quo. This trait has protected and propagated our existence for centuries. It’s why change is hard, even when backed up by solid reasoning and research, because it challenges norms that have been in place for decades.  Take the COVID-19 crisis, for example. There...

Code on the Road: BMW’s Global Value Stream Management (VSM) Journey

At the recent Forrester Technology & Innovation Global Summit, René Te-Strote—Senior Project Lead of the BMW IT Group—spoke with our CEO and founder, Dr. Mik Kersten, about BMW’s ongoing transformation in the Age of Software. Expanding on the significant role that virtual product development plays in modern automotive manufacturing, René and Mik discussed how value...

New Product Release: Planview Hub 21.1 – Jira, Leankit, VersionOne, Tricentis Tosca Integration

The latest product release from the Tasktop Value Stream Management platform—Planview Hub 21.1—is out today, making end-to-end enterprise toolchain integration even easier and impactful. New exciting features include: The ability to take action on specific artifacts pairs Expanding support for multiple Atlassian Jira plugins Enhancements to our LeanKit, VersionOne and Tosca support View, Synchronize, Delete, and Recreate Specific...

Bizarro Defect Management – Are You Neglecting Customer Happiness? 

If you’re a fan of Seinfeld, you may recall an episode where Elaine experiences an alternate reality of her circle of friends. A “Bizarro World” where polar opposites exist. Elaine meets Kevin, Gene, and Feldman who are kind, generous and lacking all the immature qualities of Jerry, George, and Kramer. For those of us who...