📩 Scaling Business Agility: The Power of Value Streams

Dionysis Svoronos discusses the challenge of scaling Agile methodologies across organizations while retaining their effectiveness. It introduces the concept of value streams, which originated from Lean manufacturing, as a solution to this challenge. Value streams provide a holistic view of product development and help align Agile practices with business objectives.

Notable institutions like the Project Management Institute (PMI) and Flight Levels Academy advocate for value streams’ role in achieving business agility. PMI offers frameworks like Disciplined Agile and certifications that highlight the importance of optimizing workflows. Flight Levels Academy emphasizes a comprehensive approach to value streams, spanning from strategy to operations.

Value streams exist in every organization, serving as a roadmap from idea inception to value delivery. Embracing value streams brings benefits such as identifying bottlenecks, highlighting dependencies, fostering collaboration, and ensuring a unified focus on value-driven goals.

Creating a value stream involves mapping the current state, identifying inefficiencies, envisioning an optimized future state, and implementing improvements. Scaling using value streams involves visualizing the current state, optimizing processes, defining metrics, aligning teams, implementing feedback loops, and championing a value-driven culture.

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Scaling Business Agility: The Power of Value Streams

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Thaisa Fernandes

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