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.

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...

Influence Without Authority: How Agile Coaches Use Data to Drive Change

In Agile environments, leadership often comes without formal authority. Agile coaches are tasked with guiding teams through complex transformations, but they must do so without the traditional power to enforce changes. Instead, they rely on influence, collaboration, and data to inspire continuous improvement. This article explores how Agile coaches can successfully lead change without formal...

Is DevOps the Key to Successful AI Implementation?

What if the principles that transformed software development over the last decade could be the key to successfully implementing AI in your organization? In the latest Mik + One podcast, Dr. Mik Kersten, Chief Technology Officer at Planview, sat down with Patrick Debois, known as the "godfather of DevOps," to explore this question.