Value Stream Management

How to Implement Value Stream Management

As with any emerging market, there are a lot of unknowns around adoption and people need guidance. In this presentation, Helen will outline the steps teams and organizations need to take to implement value stream management ways of working and platforms so that they can continually inspect and adapt the flow of value to their customers. No matter where you are in your DevOps journey, value stream centric thinking can be leveraged to accelerate and measure progress. Looking at the human aspects of culture, behavior and organizational design, how to streamline processes and how to align your CICD pipeline and DevOps toolchain with your value stream steps, Helen presents a model for adoption.

About Helen

Helen Beal is a DevOps and Ways of Working coach, Chief Ambassador at DevOps Institute and an ambassador for the Continuous Delivery Foundation. She provides strategic advisory services to DevOps industry leaders and is an analyst at Accelerated Strategies Group. She hosts the Day-to-Day DevOps webinar series for BrightTalk, speaks regularly on DevOps topics, is a DevOps editor for InfoQ and also writes for a number of other online platforms. Outside of DevOps she is an ecologist and novelist. She once saw a flamingo lay an egg and has a particular fondness for llamas.

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Value Stream with ITIL 4, Agile & DevOps

Many Organisations look at Best Practice Frameworks and Methodologies in Silos and getting an integrated approach requires common ground and synergy. Business likes to look at the whole value stream and value chain from customer request to business value. However with diversified teams following Agile, ITIL, DevOps it becomes challenge to get a good use case to implement Value Stream Management that is pragmatic as well as relevant to all stakeholders. This session goes through some practical insights of lessons learnt in implementing with Clients globally and reveal some powerful takeaways to implement in workplaces.

About Suresh

Suresh GP, M-Tech is currently the Founder & Managing Director of TaUB Solutions. He has more than 19+ Years of IT experience and specialised in IT Service Management, IT Governance, Agile, DevOps and Business Relationship Management. Suresh as a Principal Consultant does Consulting, Training, Simulations and Implementation services for DevOps to Fortune 2000 organisation.

He was also awarded top 25 thought leaders in service management for 2018,2019,2020 by HDI

Suresh is also the Regional Leader for Asia Pacific and Middle East at BRM Institute and Global Ambassador of DevOps . He is a regular blogger and speaker in National & International Forums like itSMF, DevOps Institute, PMI, ISACA. He was awarded itSMF Contributor Award by itSMF Singapore in 2013 and 4 BRM Excellence Awards at BRM Connect 2017.

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Fireside Chat

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About Jayne

Jayne Groll is co-founder and CEO of the DevOps Institute (DOI).   Her expertise spans multiple domains including DevOps, Agile, ITIL, SRE and Leadership. 

Jayne is a recognized and respected IT thought leader and influencer.   In addition to authoring the Agile Service Management Guide, Jayne has co-authored several IT position papers including “Modernizing IT Operations in the Age of DevOps” that was published in 2018 by IT Revolution. 

Jayne is very active in the global DevOps, ITSM and Agile communities and is a frequent presenter at local, national and virtual events.

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Overcoming The Enterprise Great Disconnect

As we step into the eleventh year of the term “DevOps”, it is now mainstream in most organizations. It makes into the Strategy & Board meetings, CIO presentations, press releases, and success parties.
BMK’s talk will cover and help you to explore:
Optimizing the organizational functions and processes to “Flow.”
Make the work & flow visible to everyone.
Measure what matters – the “Flow” with the help of Flow Metrics
Finally – make the right thing, the easy thing.

About BMK

BMK is a passionate Value Stream Architect with over 20 years of ICT experience with the Bank of New Zealand. He is an advocate for modern engineering & developer practices including Cloud Native, Microservices for Enterprise Agility, architecting for Continuous Delivery (CD), DevOps, Open-source software. He is a polyglot and polymath.

He is a CNCF Ambassador, DevOps Institute Ambassador and Continuous Delivery Foundation Ambassador. As a DevOps enthusiast, leads DevOps and a continuous delivery community of practices. He is one of the core organizers for the DevOpsDaysNZ conference and co-chair for Cloud-Native Summit – Wellington.

BMK hosts the Wellington CNCF meetup for cloud-native enthusiasts and The Future of ICT meetup to help students, people returning to work or looking for career opportunities in ICT.

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Fireside Chat

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About Andre

Andre Pino is MediaOps’ Chief Marketing Officer, responsible for managing all marketing strategy and operations related to corporate and product marketing, event operations and public relations. Mr. Pino brings more than 20 years of strategic marketing management accomplishments at global technology companies, including large organizations like Unisys and HP, as well as startups like CloudBees, Segue Software and Bluestone Software. He has experience in several enterprise software markets including application development and testing, enterprise application middleware and enterprise search software.

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4 Maps of DevOps

Although DevOps practices deliver incredible benefits to organizations looking to improve their software delivery practices, the larger positive impact of DevOps to delivering value is often harder to realize. A set of practices we’ve found to help organizations is something we call the 4 Maps of DevOps.
Fitting nicely in between the 3 ways and 5 ideals, the 4 maps consist of Outcome Mapping, Value Stream Mapping, Dependency Mapping and Capability Mapping. They help you create a powerful roadmap that is outcomes-focused and targeted at the most important problems.
Through this talk, I’ll walk through the benefits these maps produce, how they relate to one another and the problems you can target with them. I’ll go through some real-life examples of using these maps to help organizations.
This talk is for anybody who is struggling to work out where to start or where to go next with their adoption of DevOps..

About Peter

Peter Maddison has been in the business of building high-performance teams and automating everything worth automating for the past couple of decades. Presently, Peter spends his time helping organizations accelerate their delivery practices as an expert coach and consultant and is equally comfortable talking about business strategy as he is talking about IT. As a part of Xodiac, Peter is on a mission to help make every team thrive.

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Value Stream Management Consortium

Panel Discussion.

About Brian

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Value trumps Flow when managing Value Streams

Over the past few years, there has been a renewed interest in value stream management in software delivery and development. This renewed interest is focused mostly on improving Flow. Companies are assuming that focusing on Flow is a way to improve business outcomes with their digital transformation initiatives. Still, as they become more efficient, they realize they’re not delivering any more value to their customers. The lean decision filter of Value Trumps Flow, Flow Trumps Waste Elimination, and Eliminate Waste to Improve Efficiency can help organizations decide what to improve and what impact the improvement of Flow and removing waste may have on business value. Join Lance Knight as he discusses the lean decision filter and how to apply it to improving both Value and Flow.

About Lance

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Optimize and Automate

One of the challenges facing organizations is striking a balance between transforming how we work and standardizing work. In Lean, standardized work involves establishing the procedures needed to make products in the safest, easiest, and most effective way possible given current technologies. Sometimes those technologies enable us to completely transform the way work is done (e.g., automating software development and delivery methods via a CI/CD pipeline). Other times, optimizing processes and procedures can be achieved simply by leveraging existing tools and frameworks to optimize work and automate it where possible. One of ITIL 4’s guiding principles is ‘optimize and automate’. So how do we do that? This session describes when value stream mapping can be used to transform work, and when other continuous improvement methods aimed at optimizing processes and procedures will do the trick.

About Donna

Donna Knapp has more than 30 years of experience in the IT industry working as a practitioner, consultant, and educator. She is ITSM Academy’s Curriculum Development Manager. Donna is the author of The ITSM Process Design Guide, two college textbooks focused on the Service Desk, and was a contributing author to ITIL® 4: High-velocity IT. Donna was the lead developer for the DevOps Institute’s DevOps Foundation course and is also the author of courses such as ITSM for DevOps and Certified Agile Process Owner (CAPO). Donna recently teamed with Mike Orzen (co-author of Lean IT) to develop a Value Stream Mapping Fundamentals course. Donna’s years of practical experience and love of learning are reflected in her many certifications which include: Certified Process Design Engineer (CPDE), ITIL 4 Strategic Leader, ITIL 4 Managing Professional, Certified Scrum Master, DevOps Leader, DTE, DSOE, CDA, and Site Reliability Engineering Foundation.

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Thinking through Security Value

Today’s organizations spend significant resources to shift security left. However, fewer organizations think about how security affects value. Integrating security processes across your value stream requires more than just a binary check. This talk demonstrates the values produced by security, suggests ways to measure those values, and includes some initial ways to enhance your overall security.

About Mark

Dr. Mark Peters works for Technica Corporation as Lead Information Assurance/Security Engineer on a US Air Force cyber weapon system program in San Antonio, TX  emphasizing DevOps during an Agile transition.  During a full US Air Force intelligence career, he worked with various units to integrate and automate intelligence with operational delivery.   A cybersecurity expert, he holds multiple industry certifications including a CISSP.  The author of the book, “Cashing in on Cyberpower” to analyze 10 years of cyber-attacks from an economic perspective. In his spare time, he reads, thinks, writes, and then speaks and is also a Judo black belt.  A DevOps Institute ambassador, he enjoys working with individuals to implement DevSecOps. He remains excited by the potential to incorporate DevOps across multiple industries. 

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Thinking through Security Value

Today’s organizations spend significant resources to shift security left. However, fewer organizations think about how security affects value. Integrating security processes across your value stream requires more than just a binary check. This talk demonstrates the values produced by security, suggests ways to measure those values, and includes some initial ways to enhance your overall security.

About Satyan

Accomplished IT Delivery leader with 25+ year experience encompassing global application delivery, program / portfolio management, solution design and technology consulting. Proven track record in creating high-performance distributed delivery teams using Agile and DevOps. Passionate about Agile and DevOps transformation, coaches and evangelizes teams in Agile, DevOps and TDD.
* GSA (Global Sourcing Association) UK Professional Awards 2018 – Finalist for category – Manager of the year
* GSA (Global Sourcing Association) UK Professional Awards 2019 – Finalist for category – Automation Project of the year

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Fireside Chat

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About Vanessa

Vanessa is one of the UK’s most well-networked women and has provided keynotes on a variety of career related topics for over 500 companies worldwide. Vanessa is also one of the UK’s most prominent figures in gender equality and often provides guidance and consultancy to both government and corporate organisations who are seeking to attract, develop and retain their female talent. Vanessa was awarded her OBE in June 2018 for her services to women and the economy.

At the height of her successful 25 year career in the financial services, Vanessa launched the award winning WeAreTheCity.com in 2008 as a vehicle to help women progress in their careers. WeAreTheCity.com now has over 120,000 members and provides resources/conferences/awards/jobs to women across the UK. Vanessa is also the -founder of UK wide diversity forum Gender Networks. Gender Networks (formerly The Network of Networks) brings together diversity leaders from 85 cross sector firms to share best practice on a quarterly basis.

Vanessa is also the author of the book “Heels of Steel: Surviving and Thriving in the Corporate World” which tracks her career and shares 13 chapters of tips to succeed in the workplace. Over the past twelve years, she has accumulated over 20 industry awards, including Women in Banking & Finance’s Champion for Women,

Financial News Top 100 Rising Star, The International Alliance for Women Top 100 Women globally & Brummells Top 30 London Entrepreneurs. In 2015 Vanessa was in GQ UK’s Top 100 Connected Women and the Evening Standard’s 1000 Most Influential Londoners.

Vanessa is a regular guest on TV and radio and also sits on the Government Digital Services advisory board.

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Value Stream Management – A Retrospective

Using a true example of a team in dire straits and how management of the value stream helped them and the entire organization.

About Hope

One of my favorite ares of focus is Transformation, whether it is Agile, Business, or Digital. Each of these overlap on the venn diagram of Transformation and each touch all aspects of businesses today.

At CloudBees I work as a Technology Strategy Director in Product Marketing, growing the Market and Competitive Intelligence practice, finding modern ways to represent Business Value and using data to bring market and competitive insights.

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Applied VSM Practices: The Flow of Value in Software Delivery

Value Stream Management (VSM) is gaining traction among organizations as an approach to measuring and improving the flow of business value. This session is tailored for Humans of DevOps who want to understand more about a systematic approach to measuring and improving flow, shortening time-to-market, increasing throughput, improving product quality and optimizing for business outcomes.

Tasktop President and COO, Neelan Choksi, provides insight into how teams can take a pragmatic approach to practicing VSM by:

Learning to See:
– Focus optimization efforts on what are the value creation units
– Use Flow Metrics to measure and baseline current state workflow performance

Learning to Improve:
– Manage, control and tune your value stream
– Communicate wins for meaningful dialogue with business leadership

Learning to Scale:
– Capitalize on reduced time to market and velocity gains
– Build on this momentum to outpace and outsmart the competition

About Neelan

Neelan has served as the President and COO at Tasktop for the last decade. He is also a mentor at Capital Factory, an Austin-based incubator, and serves as a trustee at TechGirlz, a non-profit working to get adolescent girls excited about technology.

Neelan has extensive technology management experience. He served as the COO of Lexcycle (acquired by Amazon), the company behind Stanza, the most popular e-book reader for the Apple iPhone. Previously, Neelan served as COO of SpringSource, the venture backed open source infrastructure software company behind the Spring Framework, that was acquired by VMware. Prior to that, Neelan served as co-founder and president of SolarMetric, a leading object/relational mapping provider, which was acquired by BEA Systems.

A graduate of MIT (and part of the well-publicized MIT Blackjack team), Neelan holds graduate degrees from Stevens Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.

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Value Stream Management Consortium

Panel Discussion.

About Richard

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