Value Stream Management Foundation (DevOps Institute)

Description

Duration

2 Days

12 CPD hours

This course is intended for

People working in an organization aiming to improve performance, especially in response to digital transformation or disruption. Any roles involved in the creation and delivery of products or services:
Leadership and CXO, especially CIO, CTO, CPO, and CVO
Transformation and evolution leads and change agents
Value stream architects, managers, engineers
Scrum Masters, agile and DevOps coaches and facilitators
Portfolio, product and project managers, and owners
Business analysts
Architects, developers, and engineers
Release and environment managers
IT Ops, service and support desk workers
Customer experience and success professionals

Overview

After completing this course, students will be able to:
Describe the origins of value stream management and key concepts such as flow, value, and delivery
Describe what value stream management is, why it's needed and the business benefits of its practice
Describe how lean, agile, DevOps, and ITSM principles contribute to value stream management
Identify and describe value streams, where they start and end, and how they interconnect
Identify value stream roles and responsibilities
Express value streams visually using mapping techniques, define current and target states and hypothesis backlog
Write value stream flow and realization optimization hypotheses and experiments
Apply metrics such as touch/processing time, wait/idle time, and cycle time to value streams
Understand flow metrics and how to access the data to support data-driven conversations and decisions
Examine value realization metrics and aligning to business outcomes, and how to sense and respond to them (outcomes versus outputs)
Architect a DevOps toolchain alongside a value stream and data connection points
Design a continuous inspection and adaptation approach for organizational evolution

The Value Stream Management Foundation course from Value Stream Management Consortium, and offered in partnership with DevOps Institute, is an introductory course taking learners through a value stream management implementation journey. It considers the human, process, and technology aspects of this way of working and explores how optimizing value streams for flow and realization positively impacts organizational performance.

History and Evolution of Value Stream Management and its Application

Identifying Value Streams

Mapping Value Streams

Connecting DevOps Toolchains

Value Stream Metrics

Inspecting the Value Stream

Organizing as Value Streams

Evolving Value Streams