How to Use Value Stream Mapping in Your Agile Retrospectives

Hi guys, in this post I will explain how can you use Value Stream Mapping as a tool for a retrospective.

This exercise can be found in the book: “Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives”, a book written by Ben Linders and me with the foreword from Esther Derby. The book can be downloaded by free in LeanPub.comor InfoQ.com, please download it and spread it to your colleagues.

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What can you expect to get out of this technique

Although value stream mapping is often associated with manufacturing, it is also used in logistics and supply chain, service-related industries, healthcare, software development, product development, and administrative and office processes.

Value stream mapping is a lean manufacturing technique used to analyse and design the flow of materials and information required to bring a product or service to a consumer. At Toyota, where the technique originated, it is known as “material and information flow mapping”.

It can be applied to nearly any value chain. As an outcome of using Value Stream Mapping, you can visualise how your development process is working allowing your team to identify several possible parts of the software development process that can be improved.

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My name is Luis Gonçalves and I am an Organisational Transformation Coachand I love to write about Agile Retrospectives, Agile Retrospectives Ideas, Scrum, the role Scrum Master, and Agile in general.

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