Value Stream Management

La gestion du flux de valeur (VSM) dans la livraison de logiciels est une approche essentielle pour réussir dans le paysage numérique actuel. Son approche systématique de la mesure et de l'amélioration des flux aide les organisations à réduire les délais de mise sur le marché, à augmenter le débit et à améliorer la qualité des produits. Cette catégorie de blog VSM fournit des informations éducatives, des meilleures pratiques et des conseils concrets de la part de Planview et d'experts du secteur sur la façon d'aborder les contraintes ou les problèmes que vous rencontrez dans votre cycle de vie de livraison de logiciels afin d'obtenir de meilleurs résultats commerciaux.

Social Mission of Project to Product

The back cover of the Project to Product book states that: “All author royalties will be donated to the P2P scholarship and not-for-profit organizations supporting diversity, women, and minorities in technology”.  This post provides a short summary into why I decided to do this, and why I think this mission is important and aligned with...

Project to Product: What Flows Through a Software Value Stream?

Throughout this Project to Product series I’ve explored how we need to bring the same rigor to architecting our software delivery value streams as what we’re witnessing in advanced manufacturing plants. Once we agree on what flows, we can analyze those flows to identify bottlenecks and opportunities to remove them. However, every time I’ve asked...

Measuring your software delivery – Flow time vs. Lead time

Last month the entire Tasktop Customer Success team met in Las Vegas ahead of DevOps Enterprise Summit 2018 for our annual face-to-face. During the meeting I had the opportunity to present Tasktop’s own journey into Value Stream Management and the Flow Framework™. There were some great discussions around gathering data and measuring both flow time and lead...

Project to Product: Mining the Ground Truth of Enterprise Toolchains

To learn more about what works and what doesn’t in large-scale DevOps and agile deployments, we need data. The problem is, that data is notoriously difficult to get ahold of because much of it lies hidden across numerous private repositories. Efforts such as The State of DevOps reports have helped us gain some understanding by...

Reflections from DevOps Enterprise Summit 2018 with Carmen DeArdo

Most enterprises do not yet think of their delivery pipeline as a product. When I mentioned this concept to a few folks, they literally slapped themselves on the head and said something like “that makes so much sense and it so simple, why didn’t we think of that!” – Carmen DeArdo, Tasktop It’s been a...

What’s new in Tasktop Integration Hub 18.4?

A new release of Tasktop Integration Hub is available today. Version 18.4 includes new prebuilt integration patterns for faster integration, point-and-click configuration of code traceability use cases for Git-based repositories, and support for Trello, a project management and collaboration tool from Atlassian. 18.4 also includes features that further minimize repository load when Tasktop scans for...

Project to Product: A Cambrian Explosion of DevOps Tools

Any discussion of how to scale the benefits of DevOps invariably lands on tools. The planning, tracking, automation, and management tools we use define the “ground truth” of where and how work happens. One of the most interesting, and at times challenging, aspects of agile and DevOps transformations is the sheer volume of tools involved....

Project to Product: Modular Architectures Make You Agile in the Long Run

Gene Kim, one of the authors of The DevOps Handbook, once told me that organizations that require a developer to take 10 people out to lunch to get an API change done appear to have lower IT performance. We hypothesized that an overly high “lunch factor” would impede DevOps transformations, and added some questions on...

Project to Product: Lean manufacturing and the end of the manufacturing line analogy

I recently visited the BMW Group’s Leipzig plant. My goal was to brainstorm with BMW Group IT leaders on how we could seamlessly integrate production lines with the software lifecycle. I was also interested in learning more about how BMW approaches car production as I was in the midst of defining the Flow Framework™ for...