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.

OKRs Examples for Software Companies

Introduction Objective and Key Results (OKRs) were first implemented by Andy Grove at Intel in the 1970s. John Doerr, who had worked at Intel, brought OKRs to Google in 1999, where they helped fuel massive growth and raise employee morale. Since then, OKRs have become the choice goal-setting method for digital natives and traditional businesses...

4 manières d'optimiser les OKR

While OKRs are a popular framework for organizations trying to accelerate their digital transformations, traditional enterprises often face challenges when they try to translate their strategic high-level objectives into key results. Last week, Dr. Mik Kersten and Felipe Castro addressed these challenges head-on during a webinar on Transformative OKRs: Translating Business Strategy into Measurable Outcomes....

When it Comes to Transformation, It’s OK to Break the Rules

Digital transformations often start with some common rules of thumb: “Start small.” “Lift and shift workloads to the Cloud.” “Create a proof of concept for your Agile initiatives, and then scale.” But in one of my favorite talks from DOES Europe 2022, Pieter Jordaan, CTO at TUI Group, describes how they accelerated their digital transformation...

The 7 Dimensions of a Project-to-Product Transformation

Our recently published Project to Product Maturity Assessment gives organizations a framework to assess the progress of this massive undertaking. By answering seven easy multiple-choice questions, they find out where they are in their journey and get recommendations on how to advance.  As we started collecting responses, we realized how lucky we are to have...

You say tomato, I say tomahto: The common language of value streams 

At the root of the discipline of value stream management is a common language that brings business and technology leaders together.  After all, the only way to deliver value to customers is to make sure everyone involved understands what value is and how it’s measured. Keeping teams on the same page requires everyone to understand...

BMW’s Approach to Software Development at Scale with Value Stream Management

René Te-Strote is a project lead at BMW Central IT. He’s been with the company for 17 years and heavily involved in its agile transformation, which was driven by titanic shifts in the automotive industry. “Today vehicles are packed with software. Hundreds of millions of lines of code are running in cars and in the...

Happy 15th, Tasktop! Happy 5th, Planview Hub!

Janvier 17, 2007 : Le Dr Mik Kersten, le Dr Gail Murphy et Robert Elves fondent Tasktop. Voici l'annonce de la création de l'entreprise quelques mois après l'incorporation https://blog.tasktop.com/tasktop-technologies-launched/.  Pour le remettre dans son contexte, voici quelques autres faits marquants de 2007 : L'iPhone d'Apple a été annoncé et lancé Le titre "Irreplaceable" de Beyonce a été le plus performant...

Flow Metrics: Three Anti-Patterns to Avoid

Value stream management is a growing practice in software delivery organizations of large scale enterprises and government agencies. Flow Metrics are a major pillar of how we measure improvement in value streams.  As organizations begin to adopt Flow Metrics, our natural tendencies emerge to massage the newfound visibility to make the metrics “look good”. This...

Starting Your Journey from Project to Product: Be Patient with Yourself and Others

Listening to conferences, webinars and podcasts, it’s easy to find organizations that have made significant wins on the project to product journey. It’s also easy to gloss over the significant challenges that were overcome along the journey when you’ve only got 45 minutes to tell a story that took two+ years to unfold. The journey...