Value Stream Management

Value stream management (VSM) in software delivery is a critical approach to success in today's digital landscape. Its systematic approach to measuring and improving flow helps organizations shorten time-to-market, increase throughput, and improve product quality. This VSM blog category provides educational insights, best practices, and real-world advice from Planview and industry experts on how to address the constraints or problems you face in your software delivery lifecycle in order to achieve better business outcomes.

From Idea to Impact: Speeding Product Delivery Without Sacrificing Quality

Despite adopting agile, many organizations still struggle to bring products to market quickly. Bottlenecks, siloed workflows, and outdated planning slow teams down and delay innovation. Instead of building high-impact solutions, teams lose time managing updates and navigating disconnected tools.  To accelerate time-to-market, technology leaders must focus on removing delivery friction. With greater visibility, coordination, and...

From Busywork to Business Impact: How to Prioritize What Matters

Digital product teams face constant pressure to innovate quickly and collaborate across functions, but growing complexity in tools and workflows often slows them down. Instead of accelerating delivery, disconnected systems and competing demands create friction that diverts focus from high-impact work. Valuable time is spent chasing updates, managing tools, and working across silos. This leaves...

Why Disconnected Toolchains Are Crippling Your Product Development—And What to Do About It 

Digital product development has transformed dramatically over the past decade. What once followed a linear, predictable path has become a network of cross-functional teams, cloud-native platforms, and specialized tools. This evolution has opened the door to faster innovation, but it’s also introduced a new level of complexity. One of the most persistent and underestimated challenges...

Build Resilience, Not Waste: Choosing a VSM Platform for Volatile Markets

Forrester rigorously evaluated 11 vendors across 21 criteria, and Planview received the highest scores possible in eight criteria, which we believe are the areas that matter most when navigating economic volatility. Read this blog to learn which features are the most critical when choosing a VSM solution.

How FedEx Combines the Power of VSM and OKRs to Accelerate Delivery Speed

At the inaugural Project to Product (P2P) Summit in 2024, Greschen Powell, a seasoned leader with over 26 years at FedEx, delivered an insightful presentation on how organizations can accelerate value delivery using Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and Value Stream Management (VSM). Powell’s talk provides a clear roadmap for boosting speed-to-market while staying aligned...

Scaling Flow at Vanguard: A Journey from Pilot to Enterprise Transformation

At the 2024 Project to Product Summit, Sue Schweitzer, Senior Flow Advisor at The Vanguard Group, shared how Vanguard scaled flow across 750+ IT teams, transforming their way of working. What began as a small pilot to improve developer experience grew into an enterprise-wide program, tackling work-in-progress (WIP) overload, fragmented workflows, and alignment challenges.   By...