Leading the conversation on digital connected work
Värdeflödeshantering (VSM) i programvaruleveranserna är en kritisk metod för att lyckas i dagens digitala landskap. Den systematiska metoden för att mäta och förbättra flödet hjälper organisationer att förkorta tiden till marknaden, öka genomströmningen och förbättra produktkvaliteten. Denna bloggkategori för VSM ger pedagogiska insikter, bästa praxis och råd från Planview och branschexperter om hur du kan ta itu med de begränsningar eller problem som du möter i livscykeln för leverans av mjukvara för att uppnå bättre affärsresultat.
Moving fast is a necessity for enterprises looking to stand the pace with the tech giant oligopoly and other startup technologies disrupting most industries. This need for speed has resulted in the adoption of various ways of working to accelerate the flow of work across the software delivery value stream, from Agile frameworks such as...
“If you measure anything, measure wait time.” Dominica DeGrandis, Making Work Visible When it comes to improving the end-to-end flow of business value across your software delivery organization, one of the first places to start is identifying your wait states. By pinpointing where waste and wait time are holding up your value delivery, you can...
If you want to continuously increase the business value of your software portfolio, you need to focus on measuring the end-to-end flow of work across your software delivery value streams. As I highlighted last week, there are three key roadblocks to clear in order to identify where work is waiting and where your bottlenecks are: Data...
If you decide to run a marathon in six months’ time and want to put a training plan together, the first thing you should do is baseline where you stand today. That will give you a good sense of how far you can run today, how quickly you can run today, and how much effort,...
Until recently, manual traceability from compliance reporting has held back large organizations from becoming software innovators. Now, enterprise toolchain integration is helping organizations across heavily-regulated industries, such as healthcare, automobile, finance and government, to automate the sophisticated flow of work from ideation to operation, helping them obtain one source of truth into a product’s development....
The first metric in our Flow Metrics series is Flow Velocity, a measure of productivity and one of the “money metrics”. It tells you how many items were completed over a given period of time (week or month over month). Tracking your Flow Velocity over time provides historical data for teams to see if their delivery...
This weekend, I was watching the movie Elf and it got me thinking – how does Santa’s Workshop keep up with the demands of a booming population? I saw the manager keeping track of production quotas on a clipboard. There’s a single magical book that contains what everyone wants for Christmas, but it’s unclear how...
We’re hopping back over the pond today to meet Tina Dankwart, one of our Value Stream Architects! She discusses the importance of building relationships at work, how she annoys her kids with Metallica and how she would describe Tasktop in one sentence. How do you start your day before work? I really would love to...
It’s been just over a week since this year’s DevOps Enterprise Summit 2019 in Las Vegas came to a close. And while we’re happy to be away from the artificial air that’s continuously pumped out at The Cosmopolitan, we will miss the breath of fresh air that many attendees and speakers brought to the DevOps...
As the digital demands of the business continue to escalate, software delivery teams are under extraordinary pressure to deliver more work faster. Speed, however, counts for little if these teams are not delivering a high-quality product of value; rapid turnaround for a customer request is futile if the feature doesn’t work properly or meet their...
